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Under present federal law, civil rights cases can be removed from local to federal district courts only with the consent of a district judge. Title X would amend this statute to allow appeals to higher federal courts; thus a Circuit Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court could overrule a denial for removal...
Interpreting this letter last night, R. Thomas Seymour '64, President of the Council for Undergraduate Affairs, said he saw in it a "glimmer of hope" that the AAAAS would amend the membership clause. Last spring the HCUA rejected the AAAAS's routine request for approval because it thought the clause was "discriminatory...
...Lords, looked suspiciously like a maneuver to keep Hailsham from getting into the political swim, presumably engineered by some of his rivals for the prime ministership-or even by Harold Macmillan, who is sounding increasingly reluctant to step down. When the bill reached the Lords, they voted to amend it to make it effective as soon as the Queen approved. To avoid a fuss, the Tory Party went along with the amendment in the Commons...
...most innocuous-sounding of these amendments is also the most dangerous, since it has a chance, though a very small one, of being ratified. It would permit the state legislatures to amend the Constitution directly, bypassing the Federal structure altogether. Two-third of the legislatures could propose an amendment, which would have only to be ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures to become part of the Constitution. It has been calculated that because of malapportionment, state legislatures representing only fifteen per cent of the people would be able to amend the Constitution under the terms of this proposal...
...general there was little heated debate on the floor of the conference this afternoon. Except for several crippling motions proposed by the Committee for Effective Social Welfare, which were all defeated, few delegates attempted to amend the resolution that had been produced by three days of workshop session...