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0-19 (Rev, 10-20-57} >» See Soticitude for’ Fel Charged to High urt Tigttdr|__.__ cs Publl¢ preoccupation with thes Supreme Court schoo! seg- Clayton! Tigation decisions overshadows “the @fere mere aahgerous and Tele.Room —__ ‘Warped lega! philosophy represented by the court's decisions in Holloman cffminal cases,” according to Representative Harrison, Demo- Gand erat of Virginia. andy oo = He spoke at the annual banquet of the Alexandr Chiifiber ofCommerce at. -Natipnal Air-’ port last night. The drastic rewriting of. eriminal lew which ‘bas been | attempted by these Jurists- | tikned-legislators in recent) Years has shown & speeial solie- | ityide for Communist subverters, rapists and corrupters of youth,” he said. . The 7th District member of : Goengress, who is a former judge in Winchester and prosecutor | there, cited’ the Mallory case as! one example of the court’s de- cisions in criminal cases. I i In the Mallory case, it “4 held that a confession was in- ue admissible as evidence because" too long a time had elapsed: between his arrest and arraign- ment. I Threat to Order e “Those who defend State and’ local administration of the: * public schools cuss the court.’ with good reason,” Mr. Har- ¢ rison said, “out we should con-: gider the heavier contribution ' t the breakdown of representa- tive government an Public ; order which these judges h have; i made by their striking down of: law enforcement | procedurcs. ' atid methodical freeing of con-! victed murderers, rapists and‘ ether criminals of {he basast' Pa he other hang, those! Oo approve the court's efforts! ta& force mixing of the races in' tHe achools would do well to tn their attention to what: fis been going on in the field! criminal law behind the: rarble facade of the opreme Court Building. ='The infamous Mallory de» | q@ion, for example, should be: o& deep concern to thinking cffizens of all races, for the freed rapist Mallory, a Negro, has a record of brutality against white and Negro wom- en alike. It probably has not bruised the consciences of the benign justices to know that this violently lawless indivic ual, freed to prey again on tr law-abiding citizens of the N: tlon’s Capital, promptly becar, once more a fugitive from ju’ ; tice on an assault charge. ~ Other Hearings “In other dectsions, editing the laws as they go, the mighty judicial brains have | struck dgwn State statutes designed to*protettthe youngadcom pad - | ture; sprung to the defense of %-magazine fr dedicated to homosexuality; cheered Communist conspirators with 3 license to work for the over- throw of this republic—so long as they do not state publicly just how they interid to over- throw it; barred the State from enacting lawa against subver- sives; biocked the States from protecting their citizens from Communist teachers and Com- munist lawyers; given gang- land carte blanche to arrange its nefarious businesa by tele- Phone and, in general, given the hoodiums new swagger in the realization that the cards gre stacked in his favor.” Mr. Harrison said the court ‘Is making mockery of the Con-— istitutional checks and balances which the founders of our Na- Hon took such pains to devise." “It has sought to displace the flected representatives of the people in the lawmaking func- tion,” he said. “It has thrown | into chaos the law enforcement Procedures of the Executive Branch and of the State and local governments,” Remedy Suggested He suggested as a remedy: “The executive and the Con- gress can work together to re- store by practical means the balanced role of the Federal Judiciary. The Constitution, it will be remembered, dots not assign to the court the law- ‘writing ‘supremacy’ it has grasped for itself in recent years legislation can Hmit its ap- pellate jurisdiction. “The governors and ijegisia-' tures of the States can assert. the powers reserved to the| ‘States and to the people by the: jConstitutlon. Many Supreme Court decisions, such as in the Mallory case, ean be overturned ;by the cnaggment of new stat- ‘ utes" Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News — Wash, Star er N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Journal-_____ American N. Y. Mirrot ——__ N. Y. Daily News —— N. Y. Times Daily Worker The Worker New Leader ___—__- Date JAN 22 1958