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Supreme Court — Part 26
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of the American Bar Association that the legislation be killed
Nas an attack on the independence of the judictary, destructive
of the spearation of powers contemplated by the Constitution."
On the other side, Sen. Jenner(R-Ind) inserted into
a speech delivered by a Georgia lawyer describing Earl Warren in
terms originally used by John Randolph of Virginia in 1825 to
describe a bureaucrat: "His mind is like the Susquehanna Flats;
naturally poor and made less fertile by cultivation. Never has
ability so far below mediocrity been so richly rewarded since
Galigula's horse was made consul." Majority Leader Johnson,
would Like to get the "must " bills out of the way, and then
let the Butler bill be talked to death. But Sen. Eastland(D-Miss),
chairman of the Judiclary Committee wants action, and he may
attach the courtecurb to the Alaska statehood bill, if pressed.
On an ironic note, it is interesting to
see how times and attitudes changes About 100 years ago, the
Court was roundly applauded for the Dred Scott decision by
southern Senators, and denounced for the same reason by
Abraham Lincoln. About 20 years ago, when FDR tried his
court-packing plan, one of the Senators who came to the rescue
of the high tribunal was Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, Today,
his son Herman, accuses the justice
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"a nine-man dictatorship,"
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