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Supreme Court — Part 24

55 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Aug 1, 1957 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Supreme Court · 55 pages OCR'd
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ug Micorieimier enaicaas sar j By CHARLOTTE MOULTON, ere are two ways for i j JWASHINGTON, July 5.—‘Dne is immediate and dirkct:| (Congrcss fs about to undo, or @fo pass a law that does pre tak least. modify,” one of the bpposite of what the ‘Supreine Court's highly disput- tules, | - re ied decisions of Jast month. | The long’ renge but more \This is the Jencks decision in Brestic- method ig one Congr which the court, held that a bas been historically reluctant ‘defendant must be given access po employ: To enact legisla. }to reports made to the FBI by fo: (1) limiting the court’ ines who testify against Jurisdiction: of (2) em him in federal court, © ~~, {or reducing its ‘membership. What: are the circumstances’ Congress took the first route in which the Congress can re ‘on the hot: Political issue o) “verse a Supreme Court dect- Tidelands oij after the high ,Sion.?, sols... (edurt $n 1947 ruled that the * 5 And what fs the legal back United States not the states— , ground of the Jencks decision? own the. valuable deposita CLLPP » In general, Congress can outside the low-water mark, ING FROM THE jytimit or reverse Supreme Court’ . In 1953 President Eisenhow: E 7 — “decisions however it chooses signed a bill guaranteeing state| ‘ PAY_WORLD TELEGRAM & SUN. (20 long as it stays within the ownership of all submerged “ ‘framework of the Constitution. land out to the three-mile limit. paTep... AUG 5 1957 ; On constitutlonality, the high “The next year the court refused Ureereecenserean apres ‘court has the last word andjo entertain a challenge to the FORWARDED BY N. ¥, DIVISION {ican reverse Congress, In Mar-Jrew law on the ground that P.2 NIGHT Pbury V. Madison, one of the ongress may dé ag it pleases most famous of all its opinion, #vith US, property. oF To ‘Chief Justice John Marshal, es- | Court Packing, + RE: JENCKS DECISION tablished the principle that the The second method was at: bY Congress. That was in 18031 Roosevelt In his court-pack- Lae Fe oat VM & ras Wala y ik . al vers old. It marked the § ne Congress feta rt sttp towards a powerful fed-, ation to add a member eral penghe 25.0 cu cend 2. leach incumbent who was 76 or ‘over, The failure 'of this Will t et Ee - yy, rae yo 909! ana _
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