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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dooley was just being Mr. Dooley when he said that the court follows the election returns, but in a far broader sense the court does change with the political climate. When Earl Warren stepped up to the nation's highest bench, Stalinist aggression had produced a violent, often excessive U.S. reaction, most sharply expressed in the face and form of Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy. Now McCarthy is dead, having outlived his ism, and the face of Nikita Khrushchev beams from U.S. television screens. Previous Supreme Courts had upheld security laws on the implied Holmesian basis of "clear and present...
...line despite fact that he had, at 37, been member of Ku Klux Klan. In the court Baptist Black was a novice in constitutional law, but studied incessantly, developed diamond-hard technical knowledge, has held the line for triple-distilled civil liberties and social interpretation of law. He often turns an angry purple at indefatigable Felix Frankfurter. Scholarly, quick-witted, he is immensely shy off-bench...
...judge] at the [California] trial, I would have given the [Medina] charge, not because I consider it any more correct, but simply because it had the stamp of approval of this court. Perhaps this approach is too practical. But I am sure the trial judge realizes now that practicality often pays...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Watkins conviction 6-1 (Whittaker not participating)-and an often emotional opinion by Chief Justice Earl Warren meandered over most of the constitutional landscape while throwing up fences against the power of congressional investigation...
...enmeshed in the U.S. subsidy program ever to vote their own way into the uncertainties of a free market. The 1958 quotas will do little to solve wheatmen's problems. Despite the acreage limitation program and the soil-banking of more than 12 million acres (in reality often poor land) at a cost of $231 million, the 1957 crop promises to be only a fraction smaller than last year, further adding to the nation's ominous 1.3 billion-bu. surplus...