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» ™ | Davis Drafts : Curb-Court Amendment! g sress today a constitutional’, amendment to’) truction of &- of states’@: rights.” - He also advo- 2: cated on theft” floor of thet. House the cre- Ae : Rep, Davie ation of a eom-f mission on constitutional law by: the Congress to exercise some Ki jp Pestraint over the court through f°" control of the purse strings. & ; Davis said he planned te intro- x Guce legislation to correct “ob- Bi t jectionable”’ decisions by the & . court. As examples, he said he would offer bills (1) to make it ® clear that Congress did not pre- FF | @mpt the field on prosecution for # sedition and that states have the Tight to try persons for seditious acts, and (2) that the FBI should not be forced to make available its files to attorneys for defen- oa Maly, THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Atlanta, Georgia June 21, 1957 Editor: RALPH McGILL iGF CUPPING DATED - FROM VA = AED "ae ¥ MP TKED B ra JUL 9 4957 - Mr. Trotter Mr. Nease Specifically referring to recent. decisions reversing convictions of . Communists and subversives, | Davis sounded this warning on ; the floor of the House: : “The stealthy and silent sup-' pressions of state functions’ by the court, Davis said, constitute , “a tar deadlier peril to our: continued existence as a free! self-governing people than all the grisly mass extinction weapons cur scientists are working. to perfect.” . | For more than a century and| a half, the Georgian sald, the court enjoyed public esteem and was above politica and above the philosophy that “to the victor belong the spoils,” CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE The present court, he said, has justices “whose records andi backgrounds reflect only the most, casual. acquaintance with the law.” | ; He added that the court has handed down decisions that have been hailed by the Communist newspaper, the Daily Worker, with front page headlines, _ “The er-encroaching power of the preme which President €rson warned us against must be curbed,” he de Au 8 1087