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From the court's four dissenters-Chief Justice Earl Warren, Associate Justices William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas and William J. Brennan-came a blistering objection written by Brennan: "We cannot permit fears of 'riots' and 'civil disobedience' generated by slogans like black power to divert our attention from what is here at stake-arming the state courts with the power to punish as a 'contempt' what they otherwise could not punish at all." Although the state is unlikely to seek extradition, King plans to go to jail in Alabama next month...
...that kind of fear does not usually motivate Harvard administrators. And even if it could, there was really no threat. Cambridge police chief Daniel J. Brennan told the City Council that drug traffic in the Square is no worse than it is anywhere else in the City, and that his one-man narcotics squad was sufficient to take care of the problem. The Council voted him a few extra men for the drug squad, anyway, but the Cambridge police's attitude did not appear belligerent toward the University at all. The area's one agent from the Federal Narcotics Bureau...
Last week the Supreme Court junked both state and federal use of the mere-evidence rule in a wide-ranging opinion that kept Bennie Joe Hayden in prison and cheered prosecutors across the country. Speaking for the six-man majority, Justice William J. Brennan held that the Fourth Amendment is primarily aimed at protecting privacy, not property. Over a hot dissent by Justice William O. Douglas,* who predicted police abuse, Brennan suggested that the mere-evidence rule did not protect privacy-and it surely prevented police from using the fruits of a reasonable search. Even so, Brennan warned police...
...more or less automatically in line for a red hat. Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle, 70, of Washington, D.C., has a reputation within the church of being a sturdy champion of minority rights and a skillful organizer of charities. The fourth new U.S. cardinal, Pennsylvania-born Francis J. Brennan, 73, has for eight years been dean of the Sacred Roman Rota, the church's highest tribunal on marriage matters...
...consider whether the nominee is truly able and whether he will please key groups in the body politic. The nomination must enhance presidential prestige, win instant legal applause-and, occasionally, satisfy precedents established by earlier Chief Executives. The court now has a "Jewish seat" (Fortas) and a "Catholic seat" (Brennan); if they are vacant, can the President offend those groups by appointing members of other groups...