Word: laws
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Nixon, by attempting to give judges more discretion as to whom they should allow to go free on bail, may be running afoul of the Constitution. Excessive bail or its denial, except for the most serious crimes, is of course contrary to the fundamentals of Anglo-American law. Thus constitutional experts do not believe that the Supreme Court would permit preventive detention. Says Harvard Professor Robert McCloskey: "An educated guess is that the court would consider this a step backward, and the mood of the court is not to tolerate steps backward...
Dulles had a major role in writing the 1947 law that set up the CIA, and in 1950, its director, Walter Bedell Smith, asked him to come to Washington to talk over revisions in the agency's structure. "I went to Washington intending to stay six weeks," Dulles remembered. "I remained with the CIA for eleven years." He became a deputy director in 1951, CIA boss two years later...
...government to abandon delays in enacting a mild labor-reform bill, and younger priests began pressing for social reforms. In January, Madrid's bar association passed by acclamation a resolution demanding better treatment for political prisoners. News papers and magazines, given comparatively comprehensive freedoms by the press law of 1966, had become more and more candid in their appraisals of the regime. Labor unrest continued to grow...
...above case is not a hypothetical, law-school exercise. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court was sharply divided on the question. Overturning the 1965 gambling conviction of William Spinelli, a 5-to-3 majority ruled that the U.S. Commissioner who issued the search warrant that led to Spinelli's arrest did not have "probable cause" to do so. The warrant, said the court, should have contained both more detail on what led the informant to conclude that the phones were for bet taking, and some support for the FBI claim that the informant's word could be trusted...
...Byron White said that he was voting with the majority to avoid a deadlocked court (Justice Thurgood Marshall had abstained). Declaring himself confused by the majority opinion, White called for "fullscale reconsideration" of the precedents for it. White's proposal may be seconded by the court's law-and-order-conscious critics, who are likely to look on the decision as a new irritant...