ensely, so in 1965 President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood to the U.S. Solicitor General. Thurgood while representing the government before the Supreme Court twice volunteered information about illegal wiretaps that caused the court to throw out the government’s case. Thurgood also argued one of the cases that resulted in the court voting to adopt the Miranda rule, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights. As U.S. Solitior General, Thurgood won 14 of 19 cases he argued for the government. Thurgood biggest accomplish occurred in 1967, when President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall succeeded Justice Tom Clark. President Johnson stated, “Thurgood Marshall was the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place”. Thurgood Marshall first order of business when he came to the Supreme Court in 1967, was to ask Chief Justice Earl Warren what had happen 13 years earlier to the dissent Stanley Reed never wrote in the Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas. Warren explained to Thugood that he shouldn’t worry about the case and he best left the case alone. Thurgood was amazed because every other dissent case he wanted to find, he found the case. On the court, Marshall said little during argument sessions, except to train his sarcasm on lawyers struggling through their arguments or sometimes on a fellow Justice. Thurgood was known for his dissents. Thurgood’s best-known dissent is a 63-page opinion in San Antonio school District v. Rodriquez. The court held 5-4 that the Constitution guarantee of equal protection was not violated by the property tax system, used in Texas and most other states to finance public education. Thurgood accused the majority of unsupportable acquiescence in a system that deprives children, in their earliest years of the chance to reach their full potential as citizens. Thurgood held ...
