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...Clark persuaded Harry Truman to grant him broader powers in the use of electronic eavesdropping gadgets. Now, 20 years later, another Attorney General named Clark has ordered a drastic curtailment of the use of bugging and wiretapping in investigations by federal agencies. This Clark is Tom's son Ramsey...
...inches, the death penalty is dying in the U.S. It has been abolished or drastically restricted in 13 states. U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has publicly stated his opposition. Executions have declined from an alltime recorded high of 199 in 1935 to seven in 1965 and one last year. There has been only one so far this year (TIME, April 21), and now a major legal assault has been mounted in an attempt to make that execution the last...
...doubt Marshall will be more liberal, though perhaps only slightly so, than the man he is replacing: Justice Tom Clark, 67, who retired last week after 18 years on the Supreme Court bench to avoid any semblance of conflict of interest now that his son Ramsey is U.S. Attorney General. Justice Clark, an undogmatic, plain-talking jurist, generally supported the court's civil rights decisions, but tended to side with the conservatives in cases such as Escobedo and Miranda, where the rights of accused criminals were involved...
...Ramsey Gorton answered the Drifters' Up On the Roof...
Ironically, Justice Tom Clark wrote the majority opinion. And Clark, since his son Ramsey was appointed Acting Attorney General and later Attorney General, has abstained from cases in which the Justice Department takes a part. This time, even though Justice was deeply involved, Clark sat in on the arguments and tipped the decision against the Penn Central. Without Clark's vote, the outcome would have been a 4-4 tie, in which case the merger would have been flagged through...