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Supreme Court — Part 22
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Jo Wonder Russian
"Precedent. -bludgeoning, Communist-
oy iding decisions are bringing the Su-
: prens Court under _attack today as
never before. .
And it is passing strange that, ‘for
once, the American people find theim-
Ee action. Though they are the
ource of government, their hands a are
ge tied. ~
“y= “Nothing can be sccomplnhed at the
polis,
: ' For as the founding father's never
- imagined court abuse of legal doctrine
“| would become so damaging, they fixed
life terms for the justices.
| rdinarily the theory of appointive-
l life judges and justices is prefer-
tre It rests, however, on a more
ba theory-—that the law of the peo
ple will be the Bible of the bench. No
puch devotion to law is evident in the
"i nation’s highest tribunal.
.
On professed assumption that the
individual {s supreme to national
security, the justices have all but
- y wrecked the Smith Internal Security
gaa Act. They have attached a ball and
g chain to Congressional investigations.
aa They have opened the land to new
Jalawiessness by compelling complete
idisclosure of FBI files to defendants
Justice Department action.
What the court has done is pick up
‘Isolated, incidents of abuse of indi-’
‘dividual rights, translate them into 2
Id against action to flush Com- |
and crooks from- Américan
ak
miled: At Mention
elves largely unable to take cor- -
Mr, Heil-man__..
Miss Gandy.
On Jackson Tour
Of Supreme Coutt
shocked that his chief justice, nal"
Warren, has so philosophied as to
align himself with the nation’s most
unsavory element, part of whom advo-
cate the violent overthrow of the goyv-
ernment. :
‘It Js no Wonder that the four Rus-
sian embassy attaches touring Jackson
last week could only smile at the men-
‘tion of their court allies.
’ Strange does one review the writ- ‘
ings and public utterances of Justices
Warren, Felix Frankfurter and Hugo ;
Black before they went to the cow
All, in one form or another, lash
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PAUL TIBLIER, £DITCR.
IN-CHIEF
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STATE TIMES
ny abridgement of official action fh j JACKSON, MISS.
queeze society of its lawbreakers. ; 6/27/5 7
As attorney general of Califortite,
Mr. Warren blasted the state parole
board for letting three murderers go
free. They were liberated, “he
charged, “because they are politically
powerful Communistic radicals". |
Justice Frankfurter, in 1924, called |
for “hands off" the congressional in.‘
vestigation of Teapot Dome, defended '
‘it against the kind of attacks we hear’
today when fellow travelers and
avewed Communists are targets. -
- And Justicé Black, onetime Alaba-.
ma Klansman, directed the Senate’s |
expose of public utility. malpractices in
the mid-1930s. As senator and chair- i
man of the investigation, Justice Blaek |
defended , bis” Jnquiry’ against all
comerk 2 5 F, ve wre Sf
st a one. night ask, that
uprempe Cont oes, 49 fhe x
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