Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December 1972, Morgan left Atlanta to head the ACLU Washington office. From there he has sited a new target--Richard Nixon and government corruption--as a sequel to his civil rights and anti-war efforts. Morgan said Monday that "litigation is no longer the most effective weapon" against this target, given Nixon's appointments to the Supreme Court...
After his move to Atlanta, Morgan defended such celebrated legal challenges to the Vietnam War as Muhammed Ali's draft resistance and the seating of Julian Bond, the Georgia State Legislature's first black member since Reconstruction. The legislature had voted to reject Bond for his outspoken opposition to the war in his 1966 campaign...
Earlier this month, Morgan faced the Supreme Court to defend the rights of Howard Levy, a dermatologist and army captain who in 1965 refused to train Green Berets on the grounds that combat troops would abuse medical skills. Morgan has chased the case since then under the banner of the Nuremberg principle--that members of the armed forces may legally disobey orders if following them would constitute war crimes. The Court has not yet ruled on Levy's case...
...ACLU's time into political organizing for impeachment. A recent ACLU pamphlet listed facts, history and the rules of the House and the Senate on the impeachment process. At local levels, ACLU groups are drafting resolutions for legislators to introduce and working for candidates who oppose Nixon. Morgan himself has begun a speech campaign--Harvard was one stop on a tour that included a Virginia Rotary Club, New York student organizations and Detroit auto workers--urging organization for Nixon's impeachment...
Facing the sedate group of 30 law students who came to hear him Monday afternoon, Morgan obviously saw himself as the cowboy against the Puritans. He confronted his student audience in his accustomed adversary role--well-practiced over ten years as a defender of individual rights against the majority--and went on the prowl for their weaknesses. He packed his Alabama law degree like a pistol; his work in the South became his white charger; and he mounted up in an effort to ride roughshod over Harvard's best and brightest...