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To be serious a moment, I suppose it is the role of the conservative in this country to be misunderstood. We cannot speak in favor of nuclear testing without someone jumping up to say that we favor poisoning the atmosphere. No one is permitted to oppose the civil rights bill...
A working liberal, Mondale made a name for himself outside Minnesota by his part in the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, subject of New York Timesman Anthony Lewis' excellent book. Gideon's Trumpet. Gideon, an impoverished Florida convict, based an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on the...
As Attorney General he fought had for the Civil Rights bill. Occassionally he made a mistake in strategy--bowing too easily to what he considered the political reality; but his commitment never wavered. He did more than any Attorney General in history to make America's legal system responsive to...
∙ CRIMINAL JUSTICE: In a 1949 decision, the Court allowed states to accept or reject the "exclusionary rule," based on the Fourth Amendment, which bans evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure. But then came 1961's Mapp v. Ohio, ordering all states to obey the rule that even...
In another section of his report, Dean Griswold expressed serious concern about the plight of indigent defendants. Furnishing counsel for them became mandatory in the federal courts in 1938 and in the state courts in 1963, but the Dean finds that neither Congress nor the states have made adequate provision...