Word: gremillion
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...week's end New Orleans authorities had located the rape victim and one of the key witnesses in the case. Louisiana Attorney General Jim Gremillion denounced the Court of Appeals decision as "horrible" and added: "It looks like the court wants to give them [Labat and Poret] a medal for staying in prison." Gremillion will appeal for a rehearing; if that fails, he will go to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Supreme Court, sputtered Louisiana's Attorney General Jack Gremillion, had taken yet "another step in the total destruction of the rights of states to regulate their internal affairs." Worse, he said, that step "also will undoubtedly lead to universal suffrage...
What angered Gremillion was a ruling by the court last week that upheld the crucial provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Six Southern states-Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia-had demanded that the court declare unconstitutional the law's "triggering device," which prohibits literacy tests in blatantly discriminatory Southern states and authorizes entry of federal registrars to sign up new voters. In refusing to do so, Chief Justice Earl Warren ruled that these "stringent remedies" were "a valid means for carrying out the commands of the 15th Amendment," which empowers Congress to take "appropriate...
Double Violation. Louisiana Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion defended his state's right to disfranchise mothers of illegitimate children-"bastardizing females," as he put it-along with convicted felons. Georgia's Deputy Assistant Attorney General E. Freeman Leverett admitted that he was "ashamed" of the South's history of voter discrimination, adding: "But Congress cannot, in order to appease a mob in the streets, invoke unconstitutional means to achieve a constitutional end." Meanwhile, Defendant Katzenbach, who had been accompanied to court by Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall and Assistant Attorney General John Doar, sat quietly awaiting...
...Bobby Kennedy's call, Louisiana Attorney General Jack P. F. Gremillion flew to Washington last week to talk things over face to face. Meantime. Bobby was on the phone to other state and legislative leaders in Louisiana. Working through Louisiana politicians he knows from the presidential campaign, he got an informal agreement that the Davis administration would back off its resistance, beginning with a bill to restore the New Orleans teachers...