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...publicity-hungry House Committee on Un-American Activities and the recently subpoenaed militant Communist leaders deserve each other. When I think of the way these hearings were conducted. I see red. If HUAC is the epitome of Americanism, then fly me to the moon! CHARLES G. WEBB...
...last week Federal Judge Howard Corcoran broke form and ordered HUAC to post-pone an investigation into the left fringe of the anti-war movement until a special three-judge court could hear a new ACLU suit against the committee. In the twenty-four hour period before the three-judge panel vacated Corcoran's order, Congressional reaction and in particular HUAC's decision to go ahead with hearings anyway demonstrated that a Court decision declaring HUAC's unconstitutionality would not be taken sitting down. It also seemed evident that many anti-HUAC Congressmen, assuming they exist, would give higher priority...
This kind of indignant Congressional reaction against judicial "interference" has been commonly cited as an argument against the Supreme court taking a broad stand against HUAC at the present time. Congress can by a variety of means put serious limitations on the authority of the Federal courts, and it is suggested that by holding HUAC unconstitutional the Supreme Court would solidify Congress behind the committee while at the same time hamper its own effectiveness...
...Supreme Court undeniably functions as a political beast at times, stepping only so far as the climate will permit. Such considerations have been the major factor in stalling a decision on HUAC's constitutionality since one was first sought fifteen years ago. Also the present investigation -- in which an actual piece of legislation is involved for a change -- is not the best for the ACLU's purposes...
...this would be the wrong time for the judiciary -- and specifically the three-man panel which will begin hearing evidence on the HUAC case this week -- to balk at risking a confrontation. For it is HUAC, and not one Court, which has violated the separation of powers, by becoming a mechanism, in Justice Black's words, of "exposure for exposure's sake." As Black stated in dissenting from the majority opinion in Barenblatt, "all the questions in this case really boil down to one -- whether we as a people will try fearfully and futilely to preserve democracy by adopting totalitarian...