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...Earlier, Nixon had attended the funeral of Justice Hugo Black, a jurist whose legal legacy Nixon still apparently hopes to dilute by appointing justices more likely to accept the Administration's arguments on law and order and civil rights issues...
Positive Gain. That is not the case in naming a successor to Black. Like Harlan, Black was a jurist who maintained that personal philosophy had no place in any judicial reckoning; yet he managed to read the same documents as Harlan and find different meanings in them. He was a passionate, literal exponent of free speech and a free press. He led the court into expanding the application of the Bill of Rights to cover state as well as federal actions. As the court was attacked for asserting the rights of criminal suspects or banning prayer in schools, Black would...
Died. Lord Oaksey, 90, the brusque British jurist who, as president of the International Military Tribunal, dominated the Nuremberg trials; in Malmes-bury, England. Widely known for his sense of courtroom propriety, Lord Oaksey, then Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, provided a dramatic conclusion to the proceedings when he imposed the death sentence on twelve of the 22 major Nazi defendants...
...Parliament "for the Liberty of Unlicenced Printing." Hard-won democratic tradition insists that a free press is vital to an informed electorate: Anglo-American law has generally rejected any Government right to license a newspaper or censor its publication for any reason. William Blackstone, the great 18th century English jurist, stated the basic proposition: "The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publication, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matters when published. Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what...
...Southern Strategy was unsound, for it appealed to the baser instincts of the South. But it also right fully acknowledged the necessity of restoring the region's sense of belonging to the rest of the nation, of bringing the South into national political councils. The appointment of a Southern jurist to the Supreme Court was an admirable goal. But Nixon chose poorly in both his attempts. His efforts to slow the completion of school integration and to prevent busing as a means of racially balancing the South's schools were likewise ill-conceived, and the Supreme Court has rebuked...