Word: legalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...legal terms, the chief was almost certainly right. Politically and morally, he could scarcely have been farther from the truth. Speaking to the nation before a bookcase in his father's house in Hyannisport?his own house had insufficient electrical capacity for TV equipment?Kennedy sought not only to fill some of the gaping holes in his earlier story, but, in an appeal slightly reminiscent of Richard Nixon's famous Checkers speech in 1952,* to salvage his political future as well. The appearance did, in fact, answer a few of the questions, but left the most serious ones unanswered...
Michael Schwartz, who was required to withdraw for one year by the Committee of Fifteen, acted as Stauder's legal adviser and described the hearing to the SDSers and bystanders. According to Stauder, he chose Schwartz because Schwartz had served in jail...
...calm those fears, the Administration last week issued what amounted to an official statement on the subject. In his first news conference since becoming the President's chief legal officer, Attorney General John N. Mitchell pointedly announced that the incidence of wiretapping by federal law enforcement agencies had gone down, not up, during the first six months of Republican rule. Mitchell refused to disclose any figures, but he indicated that the number was far lower than most people might think. "Any citizen of this United States who is not involved in some illegal activity," he added, "has nothing...
...Some legal historians have found that argument more sinister than anything since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, when constitutional rights were openly violated on the ironic grounds that this was the only way to defend the Constitution. "It is an outrage," declared Columbia University Government Professor Alan Westin, author of the 1967 book Privacy and Freedom and one of 13 professors who fired off an impassioned protest to Mitchell. "It is one of the most dangerous claims for power by an Attorney General in our history...
Many medical and legal authorities had hoped that the marijuana penalties would be reduced for two reasons: 1) they are so harsh as to make the law unenforceable, and 2) there is still no conclusive proof that the drug is harmful. The professionals were disappointed. The only softening of the penal code proposed by the Administration was to give federal judges the option of putting a first offender on probation, after which, in case of good behavior, his record could be expunged...