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...behalf of Dissenters Earl Warren, William Brennan and Abe Fortas, Justice William O. Douglas argued that the defendants in the Greenwood case should also have been allowed removal. The federal courts can and do eventually overturn unjust state decisions, he conceded, but such ultimate vindication, he added wryly, comes only if defendants "persevere, live long enough, and have the patience and the funds to carry their cases for some years through the state courts to this court...
...johnny-come-lately," intoned Everett Dirksen. "When I start, I play for keeps." What he was playing for last week, the third time around, was a characteristically Dirksenian lost cause: a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's "one-man, one-vote" ruling...
Harrington said that the most convenient way to overturn the oath now, would be to get a decision of unconstitutionality from the Supreme Judicial Court...
...power and ruled Russia for 31 fleeting months before he was overthrown. Three months later Red sailors forced their way into the Constituent Assembly and overthrew the elected government. His "turning point" is not the usual, lumped-together Russian Revolution as a whole; rather, it is the catastrophic overturn of his humanist, basically democratic regime by what turned out to be the brutal, wholly totalitarian Bolsheviks. It is a point the world has never fully grasped...
...front wheels. Because those wheels dig into a curve and pull the car along like a train or a trailer-truck, the Toronado corners as smoothly at 60 m.p.h. as many cars do at 35 m.p.h., does not need chains or snow tires. Test drivers who were assigned to overturn it found that almost impossible to do because the car is so low-slung (five inches off the ground at the rear...