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Supreme Court — Part 29
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In a time of threat to ou
: : ship was not properly re-
ational security, we shoulf/searched by the committee
when it was presented to the
ABA house of delegates,
which approved the report.
He said the report “imposes
on me a policy which I abhor,
a policy fused to party line
thinking.”
Wright, emphasizing law-
yers had a fundamental right
to criticize the court, said
there are four major weapons
in the hands of Congress for
protecting the Nation’s inter-
nal security: criminal lawf
‘personnel security. limitation
lon international travel, and:
exposure.
In all four fields, Wright
aid the Supreme Court in
ecent decisions “has dis-
fupted if not emasculated
ongressional efforts...”
Wright declared that it is
Congress which is charged
with the responsibility of
making laws to protect na
tional security and that law-
yers in Congress have done
the work effectively.
Wright said that in many
of the decisions the Supreme
Court has gone “outside its
job of deciding cases to warn
the Congress ahout how its
affairs must be managed.”
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‘port were untrue, Warren's
letter of resignation was re-
‘ceived nine months before
the report was written, he
said.
Wright said that the War-
ren Court's decision in the
Jencks Case (opening 261
files for examination) too
broad, confusing and prod.
yeed chaos in lower Federal
courts. He said the rule of
the case “held that the de-
fendant, in some unspecifie
gree, is entitled to examin
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