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—— er eee | The Decline Of the Lawyer : By Mox Lerner Pa i The lawyers of America, {n conventio mbled, have de- clared their strong suspicion that the U. S upreme Court is soft on Communists, and their conviction twhe way to keep it from further serious mischief is for Congress to rewrite the laws so that any foot—including the Sune. ES our fools—can understand their intent. Doubtless the committpé) chairman, Peter Le “Brown, and the other framers of t erican Bay Assn. resolutions will regard my summary as too crude and rassknuckled. . To be sure, IT have not reprinted any of their nice-nellyisms, such as hailing .the judges as “the ultimate guardians of the Bill of Rights ard the protectors of our freedom.” But these silken werds are woven into a mask, and our business ag ee Jt to. aoe through the mask, ib sto gg 4G I have struggled through the “wherefses” and peas utherot and the “be it resolveds’—over a thousand tortured words of them “and I can only report that they add up toa slap In the face for the court. ; * 4 % _ Chiet Justice Warren, who resigned from the Bar Assn. last fail! and has rebuffed all pleas to reconsider, knew the | temper anda wiasle af faann leaureane ete peak penne foe aia OunIgOR VL LTS law ycis. I LAL MLC fe LU his com- mentary on them than for their commentary on him. He might have fobbed them off with hypocrisies, but the same forthright quality that he has shown in his great civil liberties and civil rights decisions, he shows in this particular gesture, There are some who feel that the resolutions might have been much worse. They cite two scores on which the lawyers. pulled thelr punches—first, In disapproving any proposals to strip the Supreme Court of its jurisdiction over certaln. cases; second, in striking out a clause about “technicalities* which are “invoked against the protection of our nation.” Jt would Lave been curious | Indeed if a profession which has grown rick on technicalities should dismiss the procedural protections of. due process and the Bill of Rights as “technicalities” to ye swept away fa the: ‘argency .to punish hated men. : This may: have been in Chief Jiistice Warren's’ mind when, after - the lawyers assigned as counsel for the Communist spy, Rudolph | Abel, had completed their appeal argument based on a procedural “technicality,” he thanked them for their public service tn undertal-: ing a case “which normally would be offensive” ta them. “Feast dustice Warren not to miss the revealing gesture. = agement fi Tin - rec 58 7% = / — — le / TMP FRA pe —aa Holloman — ‘ed ——.. The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-Amefican ___ New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post ES The New York Times The Worker The New Leader . es The Wall Street jouma Date a tot FEB 27 ja5>