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McCloskey called Barnett's constitutional position "pure demogoguery" and his actions "shot-in-the-arm politics." "I can see him drifting along on this issue--he'd like nothing better than to have a federal court throw him in jail...
...Associated Press reported yesterday that Barnett is on his way to the Oxford, Miss., campus to stop Meredith's third try for admission. Faced with a contempt charge, the governor has sworn to go to jail rather than submit to the desegregation of "Ole Miss...
McCloskey predicted that if Barnett goes ahead with his plan to have federal marshals arrested, the Federal District Court will direct a habeas corpus, and following the release of the marshals, the state arrestors would in turn be rounded up by their former captives...
...declined to foretell the events of the next few days, but he said that the federal courts will probably avoid putting Barnett in jail and lock up his subordinates instead...
Despite the understandable desire of the Department of Justice to avoid an ugly showdown with the state of Mississippi, it seems virtually certain at this writing that Governor Ross Barnett will shortly become the second chief executive of a state of the United States to be convicted of a crime under federal law. His predecessor, Warren Terry McCray--Governor of Indiana from 1921 to 1924, was found guilty of misuse of the mails. Mr. Barnett will likely be found guilty of raising an insurrection against the authority of the federal government...