Word: punish
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...order to legislate, Congress has to investigate. But the power is sharply limited: "No inquiry is an end in itself; it must be related to and in furtherance of a legitimate task of the Congress. Investigations conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to 'punish' those investigated are indefensible . . . We have no doubt that there is no congressional power to expose for the sake of exposure...
...Administration's civil-rights bill. Minority Leader Joe Martin quickly realized that his work was cut out for him. The Southerners were concentrating their fire on a single point: the provision that a federal judge may order an end to interference with civil rights (including voting), thus also punish violators of his order for contempt of court. Bound on gutting the bill, Southern legislators rallied around an amendment taking contempt punishment out of the judge's hands and putting it in the hands of a jury. The trial-by-jury cry, a ,pretty good rabble-rouser, stirred...
...reject the idea that when the U.S. acts against citizens abroad it can do so free of the Bill of Rights ..." wrote Justice Black in the majority opinion. "When the Government reaches out to punish a citizen who is abroad, the shield which the Bill of Rights and other parts of the Constitution provide to protect his life and liberty should not be stripped away just because he happens to be in another land . . . We have no difficulty in saying that such persons do not lose their civilian status and their right to a civilian trial because the Government helps...
Actually, said Cottonman Fleming, the Department of Agriculture export program is just plain old-fashioned dumping, and the U.S. has laws to punish other countries who try to do this in the U.S. Now, said Fleming, "by espousing international dumping as the key procedure for liquidation of cotton surpluses, we have initiated a reaction from these principles, back toward an isolationism which, if adopted by other nations, will play havoc with our export markets...
Away As At Home. Smith's ultimatum was prompted by a contempt case in which it was fined $140 for distributing an issue of Newsweek containing a story that was held prejudicial to Dr. Adams' case. While punishing the distributor, the court did not punish Newsweek, ruled that Newsweek's London bureau chief, Eldon W. Griffiths, was not responsible.' since he testified that he had cabled nothing on the Adams trial and that the offending account had been written in New York from newspaper clippings...