Word: katzenbach
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Among them was North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, a former member of his state's Supreme Court, now a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. At the outset of hearings before the committee, Ervin took on Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach for a full seven hours...
Fifty-five YD's will spend April 5-7 talking to Supreme Court Justices Earl warren, William O. Douglas, and Hugo Black, Senators Clinton P. Anderson (D.N.M.), Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio), George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), and Joseph Tydings (D-Md.), and Attorney General DeB. Katzenbach...
...inclusive formula, the bill covers any state or county where 1) a literacy test or similar qualifying device was in force as of Nov. 1, 1964, and where 2) fewer than 50% of voting-age residents either were registered or cast ballots in the 1964 presidential election. "The premise," Katzenbach says, "is that the coincidence of low electoral participation and the use of tests and devices results from racial discrimination in the administration of the tests and devices...
...apparently innocent fish. Aroostook County, Me.; Elmore County, Idaho; Apache County, Ariz., and the whole state of Alaska would be subject to federal control under the new bill because they, too, used literacy tests and failed to turn out 50% of their eligible voters in November. Says Katzenbach: "As far as I know, it may have snowed in Maine on Election Day, and that's why they had a low turnout." To get federal dispensation, these places would have only to show that they have not been guilty of discrimination...
...machinery for that purpose lies in a provision for an appeal to a three-judge U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. If the court found no evidence of voting discrimination, federal control over voting in the state would be canceled. But Katzenbach & Co. want to take no chances on missing their primary targets. They wrote in a clause saying that any state found by a federal court to have practiced voting discrimination-at any time over the past ten years-cannot be exempted through appeal; the state automatically remains under the Attorney General's jurisdiction...