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Last week, in a 5-3 decision which dissenting Justice Felix Frankfurter said "makes a mockery" of the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court held that officers engaged in lawful arrest may search premises without a search warrant.. Justice Sherman ("Shay") Minton, newest member of the nation's highest tribunal, wrote the majority opinion, his first important one. Former Attorney General Robert H. Jackson joined Frankfurter in a biting dissent, and Hugo Black wrote a separate dissenting opinion...
...Readers who look twice will find that in real life Scion Mike is neither Lyman nor Conway. Both pseudonyms conceal San Francisco-born Richard Bransten, better known to New Masses readers as "Bruce Minton...
Only seven members of the Supreme Court were on hand Monday when the nation's highest tribunal entered what promised to be one of its greatest years. With senate confirmation of Sherman Minton, however, and the recovery of Justice Douglas, the court will again be at full strength for the heavy work ahead...
...Senate, Minton lasted only one term but as a reward for faithful service President Roosevelt gave him an appointment as one of his six "anonymous assistants." In 1941 Roosevelt appointed him to the seventh U.S. circuit court of appeals. As a judicial interpreter of the Constitution, he seemed to tone down some of his ideas and he established a reputation as a competent and liberal-minded judge, if no legal world-shaker...
...Black Robe. He never lost touch with his old friend in the capital. Last week the telephone call from the White House finally came to the commodious New Albany home where Judge Minton sat nursing a broken leg. (He tripped on a stone outside his home.) "Harry told me he was naming me and asked what I thought about it," said the judge. "I told him I thought it was wonderful...