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United Dlates Henate COMMITTEE ON FINANCE August 2, 1957 Enclosed is a copy of a bill (S. 2646) which I have recently introduced, to meet the problems created by recent Supreme Court decisions relating to Communism. This bill invokes Article III, Section 2 of the Con- stitution, which gives Congress the power to make regulations concerning appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. It would end the right of the Supreme Court to hear appeals in five types of cases -- the functions of Congressional commit- tees, programs for dealing with subversion in the executive branch, State laws and regulations dealing with subversion, acts and policies of boards of education designed to deal with subversion, and acts of state courts and boards of bar examiners concerning admission to the practice of law in their state. This measure would obviously not alter the effect of past decisions, but would give to Congress, the executive branch, the etates, the school authorities and the bar, the means to protect themselves and the country against subver- Bive attack. I hope we can have prompt consideration of this mea- sure, designed to reestablish the laws, so carefully worked out by Congress and the states, to cope with subversive for- ces in accordance with our legal principles. OA~2VE PS GFAXKQ ENCLOSURE +43 p 041d Fe ——