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After a sharp fight, the lower house passed the amendment by 74 votes to 23. However, in the state senate Wallace's bill bogged down in a talkathon organized by supporters of former Governor John Patterson, the leading candidate to succeed Wallace next year. When they attempted to invoke cloture, Wallace's men were shocked to find that they could rally only 18 votes, six short of the two-thirds majority needed to silence the rebels...
Mississippi's Attorney General Joe Patterson seems not to have been listening. Last week Patterson, who will be up for re-election in 1967, went right ahead with a last-ditch legal fight against the voting law that seemed to be more a campaign gesture than anything else. Filing bills of complaint in chancery courts of four Mississippi counties now under federal registration supervision, he asked for injunctions permitting local officials to reject any voters-federally registered or not-who did not comply with state registration laws. Those laws, which were overwhelmingly approved in a statewide referendum this summer...
With predictably oblique logic, Patterson "argued that Mississippi's laws "do not violate anyone's rights under the 15th Amendment, which the Voting Rights Act is predicated and bottomed on " But what of the U.S. doctrine that federal law supersedes state law? US Supreme Court has held many times," said Patterson, "that there is no such thing as a federal elector. The only electors are those qualified in the individual states. We realize Congress has the right to protect individuals under the 15th Amendment. But we don't concede it the right to write the election laws...
...week's end state courts moved to grant Patterson's requests for injunctions. But the Justice Department is fully prepared to take the case into the federal courts. There the last legal ditch will almost certainly be so deep that even the most intransigent Southerner will have to agree that Governor Johnson was right: there is no relief in sight...
Died. Gordon Persons, 63, reform-minded Alabama Governor from 1951 to 1955, who in July 1954 put notorious Phenix City under martial rule after his candidate for attorney general, Albert Patterson, was murdered for pledging to stamp out vice, spent the rest of his term cleaning up the town; of a heart attack; in Montgomery...