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...within less than a month. Although the technical expertise he gained as a New Deal chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission has been indispensable to a host of antitrust decisions, his legal craftsmanship can be careless. He writes articles for Playboy and other magazines, and is an outspoken off-the-bench activist on issues ranging from U.S. recognition of Red China to the ecological misdeeds of the Army Corps of Engineers. Such advocacy piques those who feel that Supreme Court Justices should be more magisterial and aloof from politics and public debate; there is the real danger that...
...lowest ebb." Brukiewa was put on probation for conduct unbecoming to an officer. He sued the city police commissioner, charging that his right of free speech had been violated. Ordering a reversal of the disciplinary action, the Maryland Court of Appeals held that the First Amendment protects outspoken policemen despite their paramilitary status...
...Clifton Lewis, one of the city's most outspoken liberals, described his limitations: "Harrold wants everybody to be happy and grow roses and have a football ticket." Journalists at work in the state capitol press room let out a restrained cheer when the wires moved a bulletin on Carswell's defeat...
CRIME. An outspoken critic of some Warren court decisions upholding defendants' rights, Burger unsuccessfully urged his colleagues to review a case that could have restricted the 1966 Miranda decision requiring policemen to warn detained suspects of their rights to silence and counsel. And last week Burger sharply dissented from a key decision extending the rights of young people in juvenile courts...
...years, but only recently has discontent broken through. Last month Bishop Donal Lament of Umtali, head of the Catholic bishops' conference, openly branded those responsible for the race laws "the real terrorists of Rhodesia." When a priest was expelled from the country for his anti-regime views, the outspoken prelate recalled the fate of priests in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany. He was chiefly responsible for the pastoral letter, signed by all four Roman Catholic bishops in Rhodesia...