Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striped trousers sat Solicitor General J. Lee Rankin, representing the U.S. as amicus curiae (friend of the court). The issue before the court, like all great issues, was basically simple: whether the rule of law or of violence should prevail at Little Rock's Central High School. The legal situation was more complicated. Last June Federal Judge Harry J. Lemley of Arkansas' Eastern District ordered a 2½-year breathing-spell delay in integration at Little Rock. Last month in St. Louis, the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court reversed Judge Lemley's ruling, but later granted...
...noon, Chief Justice Earl Warren's nod brought the N.A.A.C.P.'s special counsel, Thurgood Marshall, slowly to his feet; to him, more than to anyone else in the room, this session, however important, was just another battle in a long, long war. Almost serenely, Marshall reviewed the legal history of the case. The N.A.A.C.P., he said, sought only one thing: protection of the right of seven Negro children to stay on at Little Rock's Central High School. "The rights we are seeking protection for are not rights that are in the abstract," said Counselor Marshall...
Completely ignoring such legal fleabites, Orval Faubus savored every moment. Said Arkansas' governor, running hard with President Eisenhower's fumbled press-conference ball: "If the President believes that the pace of integration should be slowed down until means can be worked out to accomplish it peacefully, then I am in agreement with that." Said Faubus in satisfied self-appraisal: "You know, I suppose 90% of the people in the North think I am the most rabid segregationist in the South. The fact is that I am one of the most moderate men on the subject...
Virginia's hedgerow of statutes against school integration, designed as a model for the South to follow, moved toward the critical test in three cities, all prosperous and relatively moderate on the race issue, all sorely torn between the opposing legal requirements of state and nation. The three...
...Angeles last week, 12,000 delegates and wives at the 81st annual convention of the American Bar Association renewed a year-old resolve to devote their best efforts to the next and most important extension of legal justice: creating conditions for peace through developing the rule of law among nations. But, under the eye of Chief Justice Earl Warren and three other Supreme Court Justices (Charles E. Whittaker, William J. Brennan Jr. and Tom C. Clark), the necessarily long-range study of world law had to compete for urgent present attention with painful problems of the law of the land...