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Supreme Court — Part 4

78 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Feb 5, 1956 · Broad topic: Kidnapping & Ransom · Topic: Supreme Court · 78 pages OCR'd
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Page 3 me meqbor s of your: body should not be more > than 20 mon but they oxpost to have 96 men, . There hes never been another instance like thia since our Governmant was founded, and, if it-is established as a precedent, there will be very serious future results. ; . If the National Wanufacturers Association had set up a politioal igetay” and had contributed a creat deal of money to it and had elected a number of mem--. bers of your honorable body, there would have been an ansry protest by the later ~ unions and this protest would have beon justified. Is it pessible that you will allow theso 96 mon who aro claimed by Sidney Hillman as benoficieries of the funds and the activitios of the c 1 © through the P AC to be seated without imvostigation? It is beyond the belief of the most oreduloves and churitable that those 96 men will not have a sense of obligation to the c I 0 that will influence thom to discriminate against the other labor unions, the business men, the farmers ond | the white collar workers, ~ 7 : This is a most earnest petition that you fnveatigate this and eoilaterad matters. before these 96 men aré permitted to take their plgses as menbers of your | honorable body. . Sincerely yours, He sent a aimiler letter’ to the Sanate srstaccine the seating of the ap = A fourtsen men which the Political Action Connittes cluimd to have elected, ow Tins oo Toye i : aa ec : The sa letters wero ignored by tho house end the senate. They should yet sabe AE ee eee | be acted on. : Ta The Hocseveit Supreme Court: Ina letter under date of March 2, 1945, I asked the members of Congress: = a ; 7 “ : What are you going to do about "the Kangaroo Court", still . f ~~ rN called the Suprema Court, which olds that 120,000,000 citizens, } \ FP . 7 who do not be lung to tabor, unions, have no rights that labor ae ny unions members are dound to respect? Wil¥ you join Honcradle Dan Re McGehee, of Mississippi, in his effort to impeach FolTs¥Rronkfurter, ag well as the other judicial usurpers, who push Congress aside, and issue their tyrannical orders to the states and to tha citizens? ‘JUSTICE BREWEP OK CRITICISING SUPRELE COURT JUDGES The following fs un excorpt fron the Lincoln Days 1898, addroas of Mr. Justice Brower, GOVERNMENT AY INJUNCTION (1898) 15 Nat. Corp. Rep. 849, taken from tne Harve rd Law Reviow, December, 1927, page 164: "It is . mistake to supposo that the Supreme Court is either honored or helped by baing spoken of as beyond criticism. On the centrary, the fife and character of its justices should be the objects of sanstont wateafulness by all, ond its judgments subject to the freast criticism. The time ts past in the — history of thu world when any living man or body of men oan be set on a pedestal and deccrated with a halo. True, many criticisms may be, Like their outhors, devoid of good taste, bt om or Bae +h. Dut better att 30% ts of oriticiem than no oriticism at all. The moving W.lers are full of life and healthy only in the still wreters is starnat ion and death,"
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