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...Coleman to fill a vacancy on the nine-member Federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which covers Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and handles much civil rights litigation. Mississippi is the only state not currently represented on the court. Custom dictated that Johnson pick a Mississippian, and ironbound Senate tradition demanded that his choice be approved by the state's Senators-James Eastland, who happens to be chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and John Stennis. Given all the circumstances, Coleman seemed to be the best available...
...District Judge William Harold Cox, 63, is by every accounting a first-rate lawyer, a hard-working jurist-and a tried and true Mississippian (he roomed with Senator Eastland at Ole Miss) who, since his appointment by President Kennedy in 1961, has made a habit of deciding against the Federal Government in civil rights cases. Last week he did it again...
Even the white Mississippian has noticed the change. He is aware of a new mood in the Negro community, and in a sense has adjusted to the presence of civil-rights workers. Before the summer apprehension gripped many white Mississippians; newspapers printed letters about the legions of Northern "Communists" who were massing to start a violent Negro uprising, complete with the rape of Southern womanhood. When the Red hordes failed to materialize, the fear created by ignorance was soon dissipated. And as the fear and uncertainty of the white Mississippian diminished, so did his inclination towards violence...
Thomas, a native Mississippian and graduate of the Ole Miss law school, went on to criticize Mississippi's own courts for archaic customs and "adherence, by acquiescence, inertia or other wise, to the 'sporting theory of justice,' which makes justice a game instead of a quest for truth." He even urged the state to emulate federal courts and catch up with other states by approving modern pretrial discovery techniques and summary judgments (where there are no real factual issues) "for the removal of sham actions from the trial calendars." If Thomas surprised his listeners, who included...
...their usual offensive position. I must confess that my vision was blurred as I read about the "misunderstood (and) unjustly accused" state of Mississippi. Have the overt acts of violence committed by the citizens of this state been completely eclipsed by the gross injustices that have been done to Mississippians? Does the fault lie in others who haven't taken the time to inform themselves of Mississippian definitions of morality and "codes of conduct...