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ys "Un-Pocking’ the a ” Clearly, far more than meets the eye in Jackson’s étatement. The circumstance that one of the lawyers ap- ; pearing before the Supreme Court was a law partner of: wa <i Justice Black be- 4 fere 1927, does t not explain it, | Only the politi- ! ‘ cal line-up in the. Court and thet |" changing political’ ’ Toe ne ee Tee tin ~ “3% ZGCKSOD ARAIDSt wUBLITE DIACK: “l . clue. k Justice Blac igo Lee X TM senarn was appointed by _ fKident Roosevelt as part of his plan to bring some f breath of liberalism into the Court at a time when the en apNeticome Ce important social changes. Sipreme Court was viewed as the weapon with whith the “labor-hating reactionaries would use to knife Khe’ social reforms demanded by the country. Roosevelt had to do with the Court what Lincoin and Jackson before him had had to do—challenge its power to nullify he national will. In vain did the big corporaiidons and eir stooges cry out against “packing the Courl.” It was all too clearly that what they wanted was to have a bourt pack h their own representatives, willing to ———wecuttle “+t ew_Deal_ reforms. tropagandized Against Biack _ he same kind of propaganda was launched against lidge Black at the time of his appointment. His subse- gent opinions proved him to be a more consistent fol- ; ywer of President Roosevelt’s New Deal views than the “<“fories were willing to tolerate. The growing “crisis” in the Court was aggravated, mé, by the fact that it was split down the middle so-called liberal and conservative wings. This came head in the decision giving the miners portal-to- =| A pay. Judge Black’s decision won the case for the s in a 5-4 vote. dge Jackson, a man ambitious to be the Chief e, led the opposing view. Today, he leads the-rsemult at Black. 8 yed FDR Solicies” . "Ht fe so secret in the proas that Black Soar fhe om: \so~called conservative wing—actually moving toweld re- Move Toware Reaction iaction—will once again dominate the Court. The work of Franklin Roosevelt will have been destroyed even as his *, de Jabor and foreign policies have been destroyed by the Tryman Administration, working ever closer to the line of the Hoover Republicans. The present policies of the Government, in dor:stic and foreign policies, require a Court willing to approve easures that cannot but limit, curtail and finally destroy lemoeratic liberties in the United States. Ig the present move aimed at achieving such s Court ready to approve the militarization of the and prepare it for world imperialist domination tt ould seem that, this is exactly what is brewing behi .fcenes. This is how the country should understandl these. “4 line - -up in the: ominous ! country offers a from whatithey seem to. the loves which mean something quite different oe , / e, wef . . ‘ “ ¢° * yo foo4s ee ll _) cal 87 AUG 20 1948 ee ee This is a clipping from page of the DAILY ° wRKER Date pi Clipped at the Seat of Government 4 / wy