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: « ene, are neha inn eaiaieat RR Raaeasateiet SLA RR ee eee ve | ee “e It fs a most extraordinary state of affairs when the chief justices of the state supreme courta make a formal and dialled protest against actions of ul ' the “Supreme _ Coury. Stafesr What the state chief justices sald | probably was less news in the South than elsewhere, for the South has been _hearing the same kind of attack four ytare. Kiss major tvent from éoast , to coast when these veterans of the ‘bench examine the nation’s highest ‘court and find it faulty, = = . “Recent decisiong raise considerable i doubt as to the validity of the Amert- ; tan boast that we have a government | of lawa and not of men,” the highest s judicial officers of the states said. ‘ The court in Washington has been , usurping constitutional rights of the “states and during the last 25 years has rapidly extended’ pewers of the central] government, the atate Juatie erted. 7” We consider it significant that thes pages of objections, from justice | ho know proper procedure in appeals | at the upper level of the judicial sys- tem better than anyone else, should come after debate in which the decision ! on racial integration in public schools ' was discuaned. > an Bw we odt i WF Defenders of the DaUOnAL Supreme = H of the United | Court asserted, in effect, that the at- tack was essentially a protest against the schoo! decision, with all the general words about principles thrown in as ' wrappings for the package. _ This attitude was overwhelmingly defeated in the final vote, The result is outright objection to Supreme Court methods in acting as a policy maker for the Government, _. This is, of course, the heart of the difficulty in the achool decision. Our plan of Government calls for Congress | to make policy and any attempt to get’ Congress to take over school attend undertook to smaké a change inf: vs ome ey eee wg tng tee sw ged eh ‘ Toe " a tle ee ge OREM ce led cl oneal BBs oe Loe ; a ee ee ee ee | Supreme Court Policy : We now have a national, rath an a regional, question of poll aking under our Constitution. . a oe ae Bi aati ie Te ae t aak ais VAD, OE ea r _It_sleo is the general objactian.to |. high court rulings on sociology ks and psychology books instead of law books. There must be, at least by implica- tion, a fundamental objection to lifting men with little judicial experienca, if any, to the most powerful court in the country, in place of promoting sound judges from the lower courts. The nationwide impact of this reso- lution from Pasadena comes from two seta of figures. Tt was written by the committee on Federal-satate relation- ships of the Conference of Chief Jus‘ tices. There are 10 committee mem- bera, of whom six are from the North and West. ' This committes report was ‘adopted by a vote of 36 to 8, which means it | would have carried if the South's chief justices had abstained from voting. A‘ clear majority of the non-Southern chief justices finds the - time has come | w apeak out aDout Supreme Court uses, are een Oe THE COMMERICAL APPT , MEMPHIS, TENNESSER ¥-AS-SB wee [G2 NOT ..:. RDED 267 SEP @ 1888 ~ ADS Es" 5.9 SEP 10 1938 & SEARCHED...... SERIALIZED.........FI LED. _ AUG 2 5 1958 FBI - MEMPHIS