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0-19 (Rev. 9-7-546) ti anata FET I SA es Gas ilainps, Dita 74 "Fudic ial Family Rift & Le ~ > One of the more Y enous crititisms F ef the Supreme Court's performance af 3} y" its. recent session has come from them: Which chin hardly be accused i of Partisan , _ Gr sectional carping. : 7 + Meeting In New York ‘a, few dayd:' ago, the State chief justices expressed ;. deep concern over the trend o me -* Gout, decisions in matters bearing upon . the relations between the States and the | Badaral actahitchmant Te wnartinniar i VUE TU LLOLSLL GE Ve Ak EEE WAN Lee g the State judicial officers were per--' turbed by two Supreme. Court rulings Which reversed the highest courts of New Mexico and California in cases in- volving the eligibility of applicants to practice law In those States. “The ques-- tion was referred to a committee com- Puerto Rico, Ohio and Wisconsin, This committee, in turn, proposed that the _. conference state its “... profound con- cern for the retention and exercise of . the constitutional powers of State goy- - ernments,” and recommended the ap- . pointment of a special committee “to examine the role of the judiciary as.it . affects the distribution of Powers be- © tween the States and the Federal Gov- ernment...” Thirty-two of the 42 chief | justices present indorsed this proposal. ' iF: % ~‘. 3 Criticism of this sort, coming from. chie? justices representing all sections - of the country, is not something to be whrushed aside. For the highest judicial. Giiicers of the States would not indulge. lightly or capriciously in criticism of the, highest judicial officers: of the Federal aystem. The report of this special coms thittee, if it follows the line of discua-.s the . aor at the New York meeting, may WE. exercise a substantial restraining infu’ ce on the’ ‘tendency of the Supreme % ; to whittle down, in decision after aught the “powers which had been’ * nueht ta reside in the States "2° Sees” ane sob AS Ale FR te BIB, mae 1 . 93 1 JOLI95F HRA = ed eee posed of thé chief justices of Maine, - - Massachusetts, Arizona, South Carolina,. - ifr am Gr obi Mohr Parsons Rose Tamm Trotter Nease.___ Tele. Room Holloman Gan Cz. a18 EA NOT WOT RECORDED 138 (QUL 31 19a ee —_ Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash, Star WN oY U.e-1 aMe 24 FIG Tribune N. Y, Journal- American N. Y. Mirror N.Y. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker The Worker Naw ft s-J.- Se EZ Bel em ie we NGW Léqo0er Date __ Il 27 1957 oF ees