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Attorney General Nicholas de B. Katzenbach said Friday that there is a possibility that federal funds could be withheld from Boston under Title VI of the Civil Rights...
...provision of the Johnson Administration's pending civil rights bill, which would desegregate Southern federal juries by ending the "key man" system of prominent citizens recommending veniremen. Instead, all U.S. federal jurors would be selected at random from voter-registration lists. In a dramatic appearance, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach delivered an impassioned defense of the bill and cried: "I can't live with the present system!" Impressed, the house of delegates decided to go along by a vote...
Thus, many grand and petit juries in the Fifth Circuit cannot take valid action until a constitutional method is available. Katzenbach said...
...member House of Delegates refused to denounce the Administration's plan to end discrimination in Federal Courts after hearing Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach defend the plan...
...Katzenbach argued that the current selection system confronts him with a "massive problem" because it does not produce the fair cross-section of the community that the Supreme Court requires...