Word: counseled
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Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach himself was both defendant and defense counsel. The court allotted eight hours-longest in memory-for oral arguments. Even Chief Justice Earl Warren was moved to note that the outcome of South Carolina v. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach would have "wide and profound implications in the life of our nation...
Arbitrary & Capricious. "We do not come here to challenge the purpose of this act," said South Carolina's David W. Robinson II, 34, who, as special counsel for his state, opened the two-day argument. "We believe that every citizen, white and black, has the right to vote under reasonable state regulation. And we believe the Congress has a duty to enforce that right." Nonetheless, he contended, "the Constitution, as originally drawn, never gave Congress the power to do away with valid voting regulations," while the 15th Amendment, on which the Voting Rights Act is based, "gives Congress...
Alexander's official title is Assistant Special Counsel to President Johnson. When he was at Harvard, he was the first Negro president of the Harvard Student Council and the Negro permanent class president...
...Court followed that path in Escobedo v. Illinois, the case that police now fear will eliminate all confessions. Indeed, California's Justice Mathew Tobriner amplified Escobedo last January by holding for the court in People v. Dorado that police failure to advise a suspect of his rights to counsel and to silence voids his confession, even though he may not have asked for a lawyer. Last spring the Supreme Court let Dorado stand by refusing to review it. Meanwhile, in two other cases, the California court has ruled against making Escobedo retroactive...
Dershowitz called for the establishment of a pool of state-employed lawyers to be on call at all police stations. This would insure, he said, that all defendents would have immediate access to counsel, regardless of ability...