Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the charges levied against Fortas--his alleged involvement with a Communist-dominated legal group in the early thirties, his vote to exclude a few cheap skin flicks from classification as hard-core pornography, and the contention that his booklet on civil disobedience "condoned lawlessness"--were clearly distorted, irrelevant, and fundamentally stupid. And Senator J. Strom Thurmond's infantile harassment of Justice Fortas during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings did nothing to enhance the dignity of either the senate or the court...
Johnson and Fortas met in the late thirties, and since then Fortas has served as Johnson's legal advisor in a number of tight spots. Following the 1948 Texas Democratic Primary--which Johnson won by 87 votes when 200 dead Mexicans lined up in alphabetical order a week after the election to cast their ballots for him--Fortas did Johnson what might have been the biggest favor in the President's political life. Johnson's incredulous opponent had sought and obtained a court order to keep Johnson's name off the November ballot pending an investigation of the transparent fraud...
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Several members of the B.U. Law School Faculty have signed a statement in support of the sanctuary, and have offered to provide free legal aid to those who may be arrested when the police finally try to take Kroll...
...made it far harder for the West Germans at home to keep their own political house in order. One quandary for Bonn is the existence of the far-rightist National Democrat Party, which now attracts some 9% of the West German electorate. For months the government has been contemplating legal action to suppress the N.D.P. But now that the Soviets have attacked it, West German political leaders are reluctant to take any action that might appear a concession to Soviet demands. The other problem came into being only last week when a group of Communists in Frankfurt publicly proclaimed...