Word: eastland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...District Judge William Harold Cox, 63, is by every accounting a first-rate lawyer, a hard-working jurist-and a tried and true Mississippian (he roomed with Senator Eastland at Ole Miss) who, since his appointment by President Kennedy in 1961, has made a habit of deciding against the Federal Government in civil rights cases. Last week he did it again...
...this plan, backed by Senator Eastland, includes provisions for all but stripping the Fifth of moderate judges. As the new circuit court is set up, it would get Texas' Brown and Louisiana's Wisdom, leaving the Fifth with only Rives and Tuttle as moderates, and Tuttle would soon be succeeded as chief judge by the traditionalist Alabamian Gewin...
...Your interesting article, "Those Kennedy Judges" [Nov. 6], implicitly raises important questions for the coming Congress and administration. You point out that the late President Kennedy, to accommodate Senator Eastland of Mississippi, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, appointed some racist federal judges. Senator Eastland was given this powerful position by the Democratic Senatorial Caucus. Seniority is not a law of the majority caucus and is frequently violated. However morally opprobrious, the Democratic rationale that the Eastlands had to be accommodated to keep Mississippi and the Deep South in the Democratic fold is no longer valid. Eastland and Senator Stennis...
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Harry Byrd was absent. So were Senators Dick Russell and Herman Talmadge, Russell Long and Allen Ellen-der, John Stennis and Jim Eastland, John Sparkman and Lister Hill. A full third of the South's Democratic Governors also stayed away from Atlantic City...