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...insisted, using such evidence as Osborn's tape-recorded words violated the Fifth Amendment as well, because the Government can thereby "make a man talk against his will." And suppose the tape is "rigged" by skillful editing? That trick may be virtually undetectable, warned Douglas; yet his brethren have now approved Osborn-style bugging as "well-nigh conclusive proof...
Mueller of the Evangelical United Brethren Church. But when men are imperatively concerned with "the basic meaning of life," the churches "dare not harbor such illusions any more...
Twice this term, Stewart has publicly chided his brethren for passing up chances to tackle the misdemeanor issue. In October came the case of an indigent Little Rock, Ark., Negro busboy, who was found necking with a white waitress and convicted of "immorality," a local misdemeanor. Tried without counsel, he spent 91 months in jail, working off his 30-day sentence and $254 fine at $1 per day. Only Justice Hugo Black joined Stewart in holding that the case should be reviewed. But such acceptance requires the votes of four justices, and Stewart argued in vain that...
...appear before Justice Simpson's court. And at 73, he has every intention of staying on the bench indefinitely. Back in 1961, the state legislature passed a law aimed at forcing elderly judges to retire in order to get full retirement benefits. Justice Simpson simply announced that his brethren would rule the law unconstitutional if it ever came before them. This year he ran for another six-year term...
...Romans 12: 1, Paul says: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service...