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Tories Bye! ‘Suprem e Co a a FILE urt [ ee i As Their Next Objective By Rob F. Hall WASHINGTON.—-The bilter attack on Justice Hugo Black by Justice Robert H. Jack- son in Nuernburg, Germany, last Monday is an ominous sign that reaction is “out to get” the liberal majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a prominent lawyer who, declined to permit use of his “He considered the unprecedented action of Jackson part of the reac- - tionary drive against the New Deal ~~ and everything which FDR sym- policed. This drive has been suc- cessful in destroying Big Three Unity. It has also been successful in wrecking price contro!, the de- feat of social legislation and the veterans' housing program. FEPC hag been killed and the anti-poll tax bill pigeonholed. “So far, however, the Supreme Court has been more or less beyond thelr reach. As a result of appoint- ments made by Roosevelt, the court s become a force for progress md for the protection of the rights labor and the minorities. ECENT DECISIONS “There has been a series of deci- sions which ran counter to the wishes of Southern reaction and big business interests. “For example, there have been a number of decisions upholding the |. National Labor Relations Board in Utigation pressed by employers. There have been several decisions protecting the rights of the Negro People, such as the Texas white _ Primary case, which established the " Poaries, right of Negroes to vote in pri- A more recent example waa the decision June 3 outlawing ' Jimerow on busses in. interstate . travel. “Other decisions have defended civil rights, such as the Schnelders Man case, where the court ruled exaing an action to revoke the citisenship of a Communist. An- other is the Bridges case which waz @ecided against the red-baliters. “In the Uberal majority respon- ‘ gible for these far-reaching decl- ns, Hugo Black haa played an portant, sometimes a decisive je. Usually, the minority included eon, Frankfurter, Roberts and bg ; AUG 21 1946 nn name. HUGO BLACK Stone. Although Jackson was nam- a ed by Roosevelt, as Frankfurter was, he has been kdentifed with re~ actionary trends within the court.” The method which Jackson has chosen to wage his fight was par- ticularly shocking to a lawyer. “He has appealed to a reactionary Con- gress and, more than that, to the House and Senat juliclary commit- | tees in which Southern Democrats. and Republicans constitute major- | ities, If he succeeds im his aims, he! Will be striking a blow at the inde- pendence of the fudictary, a w damental principle of our elbbxey ment.” Asked to elaborate, the attorney pointed out that Ben, Jim Eastland (D-Miss), a member of the Benate Judiciary Committee can hardly be expected to examine the case on its Merits, Eastland will judge Black on the basis of the Justice's Bu- Preme Court decisions, which East- land opposes bitterly. The itasue which Jackson has chosen for the fight is the fact that Black sat aa a Justice in SAT - 2 353 MOD pai DED Cs AUG 22 1946 rr} «1-2 This is a clipping from page_G sec. of THE WORKER Date 6-\- 46. Clipped at the seat of Government