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MAN OSA, CALIFORNIA coagre xo January 9, ° 1953, 0 “ * _ 9. Eagar Hoover - ee a rae --Federel Bureau of Investigation 9 .° P Dear sir: #0 Ce | 7 This letter 4s to inform you that T have written to Senator _- pyKnowland and Representative Scudder to the effect that the - s should be curbed by a consthtutional amendment which makes all Supreme Sourt decisions subject to further review by Congress, ~ .°— 7 on a WAL, You are intelligent enough to know the motivation of its: recent series of decisions. However, do you realize that Communism ie not really an economic bheory or economic belief at all but rather the shape given to a religious, or should we say, antisChristian, movement ? With that in mind, you will understand many things that might have been hard to explain up to now. oe ‘ i If there is anything more’that I could do besides write to my Senator and representative, please let me know. net te ee I don't think that taking the final decision on legal questions from the Supreme Yourt will vold it as an institution, but | will merely make it more responsible, particularly if its . size is reduced to perhaps three justices, which would 7 concentrate the responsibility for decisions, and cause voluntary resignations of justices who are out of step. I told both Scudder and Knowland that without this amendment to the Constitution we are done for. |. os ee 1 de 2-27595-97 i 18 JAN 20 1959 a