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Supreme Court — Part 21

109 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Jun 18, 1957 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Supreme Court · 109 pages OCR'd
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political Philosophy. It ts true that he comes to Washington with im- peccably conservative credentials. But after hig experiences with Chief Justice Warren end Justices Bren- “The fruit of these appointments is the fact that the most Significant ‘of recent liberal} opinions have been ‘Written by Eisenhower 8Ppointees: President Etsenhower's second °© Justice Brennan delivered the opinion in the Jencks case, in which b John Marshall Penment, went he Court held that if Government iven statements to ® famous Justice who had dis. [Witnesses have g nted vigorously when the Court fthe ® De ee areau of pnvestiga- upheld racial segregation tm 1896. ftlon in « er hon Case, the prose- On ‘some issues, wuatios Harlan jcUlion must show these se wits he Seemed considerably to the right of dim rendants or the case wi his Chief Justice. Numerous eye- Ssed. : President Eisenhower had acted [munists who had been convicted illegally in extending the loyalty- funder the Smith Act and ordering “security program to non~senaitive new trial for nine others. He also 1 Government departments, announced the Court's Cecision that Two ‘more vacanci " n | former Secretary of tate Dean > filled by ane Prealdent within se Acheson had acted Mlegally in dis-, ‘Justice Mintor-. went to William J. @ Chief Justice Warren ‘adminis. Brennan, dr. of the New Jersey red the coup de rece with his Supreme Court. The conserva- Pinions in the Watkins and Sweezy Warren bloc. \ when it demanded that he inform . President’s moat récent BP- on associates who had been Com- tment went to Charles Evans munist Party members. In the ttaker of Kansas City. Justice Sweery tase, he upheld a Socialist ttaker has not been on the editor who had refused to tel] a urt long enough to betray his "One-Man sommittes of the New Hampshire legislature abot an” academic lecture he had delivered at the State university. It ts faith in democracy and the Bill of Rights rather than any sym- pathy with Tadicaliam which under- lies the Nberterian “atend of the Eisenhower Justices. Their theory is that, although there would un- doubtediy be less ane if » police- man were stationed every home, the sacrifice of Privacy and other values would make the bargain a bad one. They are generally wit). ing to take their chances on the side of freedom, They appear to share this senti- ‘nent expressed by Justice Black day: ‘Clark Js Dissenter ‘The justice Who has been most offended by the court's rising lib- eTalism is Tom Clark, Attorney e the Government May not quegticn 2p alien aWaiting expulsion except
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