Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shifting from the role of tough prosecutor to circuit-riding preacher, he went to the annual presidential prayer breakfast, where he said: "We cannot know what the morrow will bring. We can know that to meet its challenges and to withstand its assaults, America never stands taller than when her people get to their knees." Then he added: "I can, and I do, tell you that in these long nights your President prays." Thanks to Johnson's restrained approach, what might have been at least a mini-crisis-the collision of the U.S. destroyer Rowan and a Russian merchantman...
...that in another case the court had clearly tipped its hand on the issue of draft-card burning. David O'Brien burned his card on the steps of the South Boston courthouse in 1966. His subsequent card-burning conviction was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, which declared that the anti-card-burning law was an unconstitutional suppression of "symbolic speech." The Supreme Court agreed to take the case, and last week the justices heard oral arguments...
...very fact that they were reviewing the overturned conviction seemed a sign that the court's majority did not agree with the First Circuit's reasoning. In an earlier case, the court had allowed the Second Circuit's affirmation of the conviction of Card Burner David Miller to stand without interference. Any remaining hopes that O'Brien may have had must have waned when the justices began questioning his attorney...
...strange, unpopular kid and had been convicted of rape three years before. There was so much prejudice against him that his court-appointed attorney doubted that an impartial jury could be impaneled. Rather than risk it, he asked that his client be tried before two Allegany County circuit court judges...
Openly or Secretly. In its decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously held the Alabama law to be unconstitutional, on the ground that it violated separation of church and state by permitting a government to interfere in the internal affairs of a reli gious denomination. The First Amendment's church-state clause, argued Judge Richard T. Rives, means that neither a state nor the Federal Government "can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organization." The decision, which also reaffirmed denominational title to the property of three other breakaway Methodist churches in Alabama, automatically knocked...