Word: ramseyisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Emperor's New Clothes all over again," said the ad, which promoted a Madison Square Garden rally to raise campaign funds for antiwar Senate candidates. Among the scheduled speakers: Ramsey Clark, I. F. Stone and Julian Bond. The cartoon was hardly a contribution to the national debate, and few other countries in the world would casually allow their Chief of State to be depicted so contemptuously. But the U.S. presidency has survived sharper lampooning. Actually, the present instance might have been worse. The artist, Robert Grossman, originally had the whole crew walking along naked. The Times rejected that version...
...part, Judge Hoffman issued a series of astonishing rulings. He jailed two lawyers for failing to appear in court, even though they had only helped to prepare the defense. He barred such potentially important defense witnesses as former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Civil Rights Leader Ralph Abernathy. Before the jury, he praised Chief Prosecutor Thomas Aquinas Foran and put down Defense Attorney Weinglass by consistently mispronouncing his name...
...that standard, the Chicago case started when Mayor Richard Daley barred permits for antiwar demonstrations near the Democratic Convention. "Prior restraint" is usually illegal without solid proof that irreparable harm will ensue; yet many law-enforcement officials, including then Attorney General Ramsey Clark, thought violence was avoidable. Undoubtedly some extremists were bent on provoking trouble, and they were aided when Daley's refusal to negotiate angered thousands of young people. The police were severely harassed, but they in turn treated demonstrators so harshly that the Walker Commission called the subsequent disorders a "police riot." Nixon's new Attorney...
...Police Riot." When the law was first proposed, the then Attorney General Ramsey Clark testified against it, underscoring the view of many legal scholars that its blunderbuss language was constitutionally questionable and might pose a threat to legitimate political activity. One major concern: a jury might infer that the organizers of a peaceful demonstration had riotous intentions even if hecklers or militants started a ruckus. After the convention, Clark refused to invoke the new law despite Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's contention that itinerant "terrorists" had caused the tumult...
...gagged, and eventually handed him a four-year sentence for contempt. The judge severed Scale's case, thus reducing the Chicago Eight to the Seven. Time and again, Hoffman ruled out evidence that Defense Attorneys William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass tried to present, including the testimony of Ramsey Clark. The wranglings forced Hoffman to send the jury from the courtroom so often that it did not hear roughly a third of what went...