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...RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH RICHARD M. NIXON, read the headline of a two-page ad in the May 31 issue of the New York Times. Though John Birchers did their poor best to get Earl Warren impeached, some people are still shocked by the thought of trying to do it to the President. Angry pressmen at the Times at first refused to run off the issue. The President sent a White House aide to thank them for their brief attempt at supererogatory censorship, and the Times received more than 400 letters from readers, most of whom condemned publication...
...council, after tabling a motion to impeach Meiswinkle, voted to censor him for his part in the demonstration...
...Impeach Nixon...
...most turbulent years. Combining half a century of service on the bench, they cannot be replaced by any pair who could immediately command a similar respect from their colleagues, or from the legal profession. Blemished by the resignation under fire of Justice Abe Fortas, the abortive attempts to impeach Douglas, and Nixon's unsuccessful efforts to elevate two lesser jurists, Clement F. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, the court is in need of new stature...
...decision in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which held that police cannot question a suspect in custody until they inform him of his constitutional rights to silence and counsel. At issue this term in Harris v. New York was whether statements made by an unwarned suspect could be used to impeach his testimony at trial. By a vote of 5 to 4, the new court said yes (provided there is no evidence of police coercion). It thereby brushed aside language in Miranda that appeared to bar uncounseled statements for any purpose. That language, said Chief Justice Burger for the majority...