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...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rationale that the Eastlands had to be accommodated to keep Mississippi and the Deep South in the Democratic fold is no longer valid.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...
...Democrats- 21 H. F. Byrd (Va.) R. Long (La.) R. C. Byrd (W.Va.) McClellan (Ark.) Eastland (Miss.) Robertson (Va.) Ellender (La.) Russell (Ga.) Ervin (N.C.) Smathers (Fla.) Fulbright (Ark.) Sparkman (Ala.) Hayden (Ariz.) Stennis (Miss.) Hill (Ala.) Talmadge (Ga.) Holland (Fla.) Thurmond (S.C.) Johnston (S.C.) Walters (Tenn.) Jordan...
...floor. Then they will begin to filibuster in earnest. But yet another delay is in prospect. Just for form's sake, Oregon's Wayne Morse, a pro-rights man, believes the bill ought to go to the Judiciary Committee, headed by Mississippi Segregationist James O. Eastland, with instructions that it be returned in ten days. In Eastland's hands, a civil rights bill has the approximate survival quotient of a snowball in the Sahara: 121 such measures have been referred to the Judiciary Committee since 1953, and precisely one has found its way back to the Senate...