Word: maryland
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...twisting has been the worst I've ever seen," said Utica's Richard H. Balch, onetime Democratic state chairman. Noting that Bobby's allies were running in three other states-Pierre Salinger in California, Teddy Kennedy in Massachusetts, and Joseph Tydings, who was a U.S. Attorney under Kennedy, in Maryland-with a total of 64 electoral votes among them on top of New York's 43, one Democrat cried: "It will be a United States of Kennedy." In a meeting with Mayor Wagner, a group of reformers protested: "Bobby Kennedy is a ruthless, unprincipled, frighteningly ambitious young man who intends...
Jenkins was more deeply implicated in the Bobby Baker scandal. During the Senate investigation, Maryland Insurance Broker Don Reynolds testified under oath that while he was trying to sell a $100,000 policy to Lyndon Johnson, Jenkins forced him to buy $1,208 worth of advertising time on Lady Bird Johnson's KTBC television station in Austin. Reynolds said he had no use for the advertising, but bought it anyway "because it was expected of me." "Who conveyed that thought to you?" asked Nebraska's Republican Senator Carl Curtis. Replied Reynolds: "Mr. Walter Jenkins...
...Court is obviously one of the section's chief and continuing subjects. But coverage has extended from the marble halls to lesser courts and tribunals, has been almost as diverse as the law itself. It has ranged from the constitutionality of state anti-obscenity laws to a Maryland decision that cows had a perfect right to walk in the road in Antietam Furnace; from the right to counsel to the right of self-defense ("Are Hatpins Enough?"); from women lawyers to law-school journals to a juridical celebration of Shakespeare's 400th anniversary. Such variety, and the thorough...
Opening a Door. Apart from Article I's commerce clause, the fount of national regulatory power, no constitutional dreams have been harder to divine than the Bill of Rights, which the Court was called upon to invoke against the states in an 1833 Maryland case (Barron v. Baltimore). Quickly recoiling from that idea, the Court held that the Bill applied only against the Federal Government. After that, the states were free to ignore-and many did-the Constitution's most basic guarantees of civil liberties...
...rights by striking down state economic regulation. On the other, it backed away from using the same clause to bring state criminal-law procedures up to Bill of Rights standards. In the 1942 case of Belts v. Brady, for example, the Court upheld the robbery conviction of a jobless Maryland farm hand who had been too poor to hire a lawyer. The Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to counsel applies only in federal courts, said the Court, ruling that states need furnish indigents with lawyers only in "shocking" circumstances...