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TIME'S portrait [March 26] of Senator Eastland as the new reactionary-respectable, resourceful, rhetorical-is a repelling one. With this man heading the Senate Judiciary Committee, forming a bottleneck to all the desperately needed legislation on civil rights and immigration, we will never regain our position of trust and leadership before the free world, particularly before the Asian nations...
...with that decision was on his way to becoming a national figure. One month before he started his re-election campaign (which he won handily), the Supreme Court handed down its anti-segregation ruling. Less than a month later, a small group of white citizens of Indianola, Miss., in Eastland's own Sunflower County, founded what they called a Citizens' Council, the first appearance of a movement which Mississippi Editor Hodding Carter describes as "the uptown Ku Klux Klan." Though it lacked-and still does-any kind of interstate organization or direction, the movement rapidly spread through...
Into the Vacuum. Eastland denies that he has ever been a member of a Citizens' Council (or of the Klan). There is no doubt that he has become a kind of patron saint of the councils. Stepping into a vacuum at the heart of the councils, he gave them a philosophy and a voice, and today Southern cities which had barely heard of him two years ago fight for dates on his crowded speaking schedule. Those who manage to get him hear what has become almost a canned speech. In it, Eastland starts from the assumption that the anti...
...question of how a constitutional system of government can operate unless some judicial process can determine in disputed cases what the constitution means. He argues that "in the field of contested powers . . . the states and not the Supreme Court are the final arbiter." This does not mean that Eastland believes in nullification. In January he told a Citizens' Council audience in South Carolina, historic home of nullification, that the South Carolina Nullification Act of 1832 was constitutionally unsound, and added, "no one contends that a state can nullify an act which Congress has the power to pass...
...Eastland himself has already introduced in the Senate a proposed constitutional amendment along this line. He is fully aware that such an amendment, even in the unlikely event that Congress approved it, would be a long time getting passed by 36 states. In the interim, he is ready with a plan for evading the Supreme Court decision by "legal and constitutional means." Says he: "The effective way to oppose integrated schools ... is through the government of the states ... If we contest at the local level, by individual school districts, or by a county, or on a community basis...