Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been extradited from Brazil. They still have hopes of finding Josef Mengele, the camp doctor accused of experimenting on thousands of people at Auschwitz, and the biggest quarry of all, Hitler Deputy Martin Bormann. Yet the men who knowingly gave many of Hitler's acts their legal veneer, the Nazi judges, have escaped prosecution, claiming that they were simply upholding the laws, no matter how inhumane. Last week, in a case that could affect many former members of Hitler's judicial system, the first Nazi judge ever tried in a German court was convicted of war crimes...
...Draft Resistance group specializes in loopholes. "There are 14,000 different ways to get out," Mungo proclaims. It is perfectly legal, for example, to refuse to sign the security oath at the pre-induction physical, and you don't even have to give a reason for refusing. The army generally doesn't want anything to do with non-signers and classifies them 1-Y, Mungo explains...
...Draft Resistance Group can offer free legal assistance. Victor Rabinovitz, a prominent left-wing lawyer, has agreed to send up a man from his firm, Mungo says, whenever a client of the Group faces trial. So far, two have been put on trial for refusing induction and one of them has already been sent to jail...
...they seem to be working. Although Mississippi judges frequently sentence Negroes to death for rape and murder, a determined group of lawyers has managed to block every Mississippi execution for close to three years, mainly on the basis of the contention that juries there are segregated. The A.C.L.U. and Legal Defense Fund have already obtained a restraining injunction in Florida that bars any executions until the suit is decided. A decision on the California injunction request is due this week. Since both sides in the Florida case have promised to appeal adverse decisions right up to the Supreme Court...
Father Kavanaugh's major polemical weapon is the sweeping generalization. Ignoring the fact that great juridical decisions can rise to the level of philosophy, he boldly declares: "The legal mind is a restricted and impoverished mind which cannot move without a law to support each flicker of its brain." He describes the church's code of can on law, which is now being drastically revised, as "archaic" and "reeking of drawbridges and moats." Dismissing the intellectual achievements of Jesuits John Courtney Murray and Karl Rahner, Kavanaugh insists that "Catholic theology died somewhere between Thomas and Tarzan." He scarcely...