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FREEDMAN: Thank you, your Honor. I am here as an ACLU volunteer attorney to represent Mr. Dershowitz because we are concerned with the implications that he might be guilty of some impropriety in this case. I would like to make some observations about the merits of that issue...
...December 1972, Morgan left Atlanta to head the ACLU Washington office. From there he has sited a new target--Richard Nixon and government corruption--as a sequel to his civil rights and anti-war efforts. Morgan said Monday that "litigation is no longer the most effective weapon" against this target, given Nixon's appointments to the Supreme Court...
Within a year, Morgan had assumed leadership of the ACLU's Atlanta office, which became a nucleus for ACLU activity in southern civil rights cases during the sixties. From that springboard, Morgan headed the defense in Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which established a precedent for federal intervention in state reapportionment schemes--specifically on the principle of one man, one vote. He also argued White v. Crook (1966), which ended the exclusion of women and blacks from juries. The latter case was the first in the current series of constitutional arguments for women's rights...
...channels much of the ACLU's time into political organizing for impeachment. A recent ACLU pamphlet listed facts, history and the rules of the House and the Senate on the impeachment process. At local levels, ACLU groups are drafting resolutions for legislators to introduce and working for candidates who oppose Nixon. Morgan himself has begun a speech campaign--Harvard was one stop on a tour that included a Virginia Rotary Club, New York student organizations and Detroit auto workers--urging organization for Nixon's impeachment...
...ACLU wants to effect its will today, it has to go through the political process," he said. "From 1954 to 1968 we were singularly blessed with a Supreme Court as an institution of social change. Now the courts want to get rid of cases that involve individual rights of citizens...