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8-572 (3-29-55) ZTANDARD For - Office Memurandum ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : The Director DATE: / . | | From : J.P. Mobr SUBJECT: The Congressional Record neck f ‘| Pages-X6437- Senator Thurmond, (D) South Carolina, extended his remarks to . A&438 = include two columns which appeared in the Washington Evening ™, Star of June 25, 1957, and July 6, 195%, entitied respectively "On honor Unie at Court Employees - United States Commission's rging Steps To Insure Loyalty Of Alis Is Cited,’ and “Real Issue In Civil Rights Fight - Threatened Use Of Force To | Obtain Conformity On Probleme Ie Decried.' The columna were written by David Lawrence. It is pointed out in the first column “It will be news to many people that the Supreme Court Justices are dependent to some extent on their law clerks tn writing their an Opinions. For years it has been an open secret aroun: Washington — that the big eastern law schools selected their top scholars for a year's service as law clerks to Supreme Court Justices. Today, when so-called liberalism amounts almost to a fanaticism, some of the law-schoo] professors encaze in active campairns to advance publicly the views with which they indoctrinate their students.” In reference to the civil rights issue, the second column states "It involves not solely a means of assuring voting rights - for many Negroes do vote in the South and sevoral have been elected to city councils there - but a question of reaching into the whole social order in the South with laws authorizing the use of military power to secure obedience to the Supreme Court's decision on schoo! f that it was influenced primarily by sociological doctrines rather fj In the original of a memorandy captioned anddated as above, the Congressional Record for | tf was teviewed and pertinent items were marked for th Director's on. This form has been prepared in order that portions o a copy of 1 memorandum may be clipped, mounted, and placed in ‘appropriate Bureau case or subject matter files. integration. Yet the Court itself admitted in the same decleion Ae / Original filed in: