Word: dissentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in a 5-3 decision which dissenting Justice Felix Frankfurter said "makes a mockery" of the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court held that officers engaged in lawful arrest may search premises without a search warrant.. Justice Sherman ("Shay") Minton, newest member of the nation's highest tribunal, wrote the majority opinion, his first important one. Former Attorney General Robert H. Jackson joined Frankfurter in a biting dissent, and Hugo Black wrote a separate dissenting opinion...
Justice Alarmed. It was a clear victory for the Department of Justice, which had felt itself hampered under existing search & seizure laws. Frankfurter in his dissent was alarmed at the way the majority decision upset a principle reaffirmed as recently as two years ago, before the two new Truman appointees, Minton and ex-Attorney General Tom Clark, reached the bench. Frankfurter read his freshman colleagues a cutting lecture...
CRIMSON editorial policy is determined by vote of our editors. ON THE OTHER HAND is a dissent from that policy written by an editor who sees and interprets the facts differently...
...months ago the Association on American Indian Affairs launched a committee to keep Hollywood from maligning one of its oldest standard villains, the red man (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week an association member, Critic-Novelist Bernard DeVoto, noted his dissent in Harper's magazine...
...Dissent. At first the vast, unorganized army of commuters and travelers reacted with the numbed resignation of men & women who knew the 2Oth Century has its inescapable hazards. But soon the stirrings of dissent rose above the jumble of raspy music and unctuous plugs...