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...Rights bill. Sen. Hubert Humphrey indicated the long pause was over when he changed his description of the Southern oratory from extended debate to filibuster. But it was a Southerner, Sen. Herman Talmadge, who ended the preliminaries with amendments designed to guarantee jury trials for all cases of criminal contempt arising from the bill...
Much of the ideological invective between Moscow and Peking camouflages rivalry between two great if unequal powers. Mao's pride in his ideological subtlety and his own Chinese Communist revolution-which he accomplished largely unaided by Russia-obviously mingles with his pride in an ancient culture and his contempt for Khrushchev as a belly-slapping vulgarian...
...Supreme Court's recent decision on Governor Ross Barnett was both encouraging and frustrating. The Court held that Barnett may be tried without jury for contempt of a U.S. Court order directing him to stop obstructing James Meredith's admission into the University of Mississippi. But at the same time it warned in a footnote that the conviction could be reversed if the penalty imposed were not "petty...
Viewed in the perspective of a long battle against arbitrary judicial power, against government by injunction, the decision marked an advance for civil liberties. Before passage of the Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932, federal judges often issued injunctions against strikes and other union activities, leveling harsh sentences for criminal contempt without calling upon the grand jury for an indictment or allowing trial by jury. This unusual legal power of both accusing and judging has a long common law tradition, although it is inconsistent with the whole grand jury and petit jury system. Now the court has at least ruled that...
...Durwood Pye, a scholarly white-supremacist. Graduating at the top of his class at Atlanta Law School, he became a formidable lawyer before becoming a judge in 1956. A stickler for detail, he has ground out opinions of more than 600 pages, once fined Atlanta newspapers $20,000 for contempt for describing a defendant's past, banned news cameras and tape recorders not only in his courtroom, but also on "adjacent sidewalks and public streets." At 54, Pye is tetchy as a loaded derringer; he is wont to hector witnesses and explode at any moment over what he calls...