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M. A. Jones to Mr. Nease Memorandum The book, in fact, very seriously criticizes the Supreme Court, both in regard to the Justices themselves and the decisions rendered. Some of the typical comments are set forth below: "Ali this and very much more - actual assaults on the liberties of Americans and on their means of protecting themselves against tyranny from within and without - has been brought about by a Supreme Court composed of nine men - nine men against 170 million Americans." (P, 7) ‘There is only one legal way in which the Constitution can be changed - by amendment initiated by the sover- eign states or by the Congress and concurred in by three fourths of the states. These nine judges simply usurped the powers of the states and the people's representatives and tore to pieces the charter of freedom of the American people." (P. 52-53) "One decision continued to follow another from the packed Court, each of them designed to break down further the constitutional bars aghinst growing usurpations by the Washington government. The remaining years of the Roosevelt regime and those of the Truman ‘Fair Deal' saw generally a continuation of the same type of Supreme Court appointments and, with one or two exceptions, the same type of major decisions." (P. 62) "But so. far as the Supreme Court's decision in the segregation cases is concerned, the socialist revolutionarjes in America now have what they want - the opening wedge for complete control of education by the central government." (P, 89) ~ “"THese were the men - Warren, Minton, Clark, Burton, Jackson, Douglas, Frankfurter, Reed, and Black - who, on the ‘authority’ of a batch of left-wing nobodies, did what no Congress of the United States had ever permitted. They put the hand of the central government directly into the public school systems of the American states." (P. 103) -3-