Word: prevented
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Based squarely on the federal courts' power to punish contempt is an essential function of the Federal Government: the use of injunctions and restraining orders to prevent acts that would damage an individual or the public interest. The injunction is the Government's principal means of enforcing more than two dozen federal statutes, including the antitrust laws, the Atomic Energy Act and the Securities Exchange Act. Not one of these 20-odd statutes carries a jury-trial provision, and expert opinion holds that many of them, because of their complexity, would be unenforceable if it took a jury...
...vote legislation," but had written into it complex injunctive powers that rested, so said the Southerners, on the "Force Acts" of Reconstruction. Dick Russell defined two outstanding targets: the bill's Part III, which granted authority for the U.S. Attorney General to get injunctions from Federal Courts to prevent abuses of all kinds of Negro rights; Part IV, the specific "right to vote" clause, which could be undermined by a jury-trial amendment that would ultimately leave Southern defendants in the hands of Southern white juries...
...arrests. Let us speak about this. Yes, we collected a few hundred persons, and yet what happened? One week later [after the dismissal of Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich in Russia], these counter-revolutionary creatures recovered their confidence. Disintegration, they thought, was starting in the Soviet Union. In order to prevent these creatures from making a new October, we asked them, 'Gentlemen, please step inside.' " Invitations went only to "good classic fascist figures," said Marosan-counts, colonels, landowners. The good classic figures could expect soon to be propped up before kangaroo courts to establish the legend of the fascist...
...Gone. Johnson's first move was on Part III of the Administration bill, which would empower the U.S. Attorney General to step in and seek injunctions to prevent not only violations of voting rights but violations of any other federally guaranteed civil rights, e.g., education in integrated schools. Many a Northerner (including Dwight Eisenhower) had already made it clear that this was much too broad a sweep for a bill which the Justice Department had advertised as a right-to-vote bill. When New Mexico's liberal Democrat Clinton Anderson expressed doubts about Part III, Johnson encouraged Anderson...
...Vandervoort Jr. "We will just create a bunch of little Davy Crocketts and little Daughters of the Republic." "It appears to me," said former President W. W. Kemmerer of the University of Houston later, "that the board is encircling the state with a cotton curtain to prevent the children from peeping out." Nonsense, retorted Acting Superintendent G. C. Scarborough, a member of the local White Citizens' Council: "We're just drifting back to the fundamentals...