Answer to Question 1
Chief Justice Earl Warren presided over a Court that is best known for its decisions protecting individual rights (civil liberties). Much constitutional law was established during the Warren Court era. Included in this Court's decisions are the following: the invalidation of the separate but equal doctrine of Plessy; the finding that privacy is protected by the Constitution, in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965); the establishment of much of the First Amendment free speech law used today; and enhanced protection of the rights of persons accused of crimes.
Answer to Question 2
a