Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldier have been violated." New York's tabloid Daily News roared that the Supreme Court, "like Pontius Pilate . . . has washed its hands . . . This stinking affair has disgusted tens of millions of us." The News admonished Congress to get busy with remedial legislation. And Ohio's Senator John Bricker telegraphed to every Sunday paper in his home state his renewed determination to fight for his Bricker amendment, which would "make the Constitution supreme over the conflicting provisions of any treaty or executive agreement...
Delaware's John J. Williams, Idaho's Henry C. Dworshak, Indiana's William E. Jenner, Nebraska's Carl T. Curtis, Nevada's George W. Malone, North Dakota's Milton R. Young, Ohio's John W. Bricker, and Wyoming's Frank A. Barrett. Paired against the bill: Arizona's Barry M. Goldwater, Nebraska's Roman L. Hruska, North Dakota's William Langer...
...majority also took an obiter dictum potshot at the celebrated argument of Ohio's Senator John Bricker that the Constitution leaves doubt whether treaties can supersede constitutional rights, hence .needs the so-called Bricker Amendment establishing constitutional supremacy. Said Black: "This court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty...
Soon letters were pouring into newspapers, heavily backing an American trial for Girard. Congressmen, from left to right, were hammering at the Dulles-Wilson ruling; e.g., Ohio's Senator John Bricker accused the Government of "sacrificing an American soldier to appease Japanese public opinion." Girard's defense attorney, who was recommended for the job by the Hearst New York Journal-American, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington to have Girard brought back to the U.S., announced plans to subpoena Dulles, Wilson and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker. The counterblasts were soon rolling in from all over Asia...
Rights Conceded, Rights Gained. Argument over status of forces does not end, of course, with the pragmatic fact that it is working well. Ohio's Senator John Bricker takes a stand upon "150 years of national policy and international law" to argue that every sovereign government has exclusive jurisdiction over its own forces in all circumstances. The Justice and State Departments flatly deny this interpretation, hold that in law the host state has the last word; they add that status-of-forces agreements guarantee rights to the U.S. that it would not otherwise legally possess. Bricker adds that allied...