Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usurped Congress' authority to remove judges and had denied him due process by not giving him a hearing. Fortnight ago, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay the Judicial Council's "temporary" order, with the understanding that Chandler would be granted a hearing. In an angry minority dissent Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas found that the Judicial Council had, nonetheless, effectively "removed" Judge Chandler from his office. "The council," said the dissenters, "is completely without legal authority to issue any such order, no statute purports to authorize it, and the Constitution forbids...
...Amorphous & Far-Reaching." To Justice John Harlan, the last part of Douglas' argument was dubious. "This decision is more the product of human impulses, which I fully share, than of solid constitutional thinking," he said in dissent. He argued that the "public function" of privately established schools and privately established parks is clearly similar. If the majority thought that its decision left "unaffected the traditional view that the 14th Amendment does not compel private schools to adapt their admission policies to its requirements," said Harlan, he did not agree. He found it difficult "to avoid the conclusion that this...
...aren't interested in the topic. For example: "Within the court itself, Justice Harlan looks on his colleagues' handiwork with all the enthusiasm of a nun who has caught less pious sisters smuggling men into the convent." And Frank's comment on Frankfurter's Baker v. Carr dissent...
...history of Lenin. The book is essentially an account of Lenin's life, padded with more general history and laced with occasional hints of animation. The decision to identify the Party with Lenin was in many ways an unfortunate one, because the two were not synonymous. A discussion of dissent within the Party would have made the book more exciting, and probably more balanced...
...some of the Conservative's message is provocative in the positive sense of the word. It reflects the inspiration of what may be the best volume of popular conservative theorizing in many years: Jeffrey Hart's The American Dissent: A Decade of Modern Conservatism. The book was recently condensed in the Review, and the Conservative makes several laudatory references...