Word: rider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dirksen rider [Sept. 18] is a more arrogant attack on the right of the court to interpret the Constitution than Roosevelt's court-packing plan. It defies the separation of powers. It does not attempt to steal a few thousand votes but to dilute millions of votes forever...
...Dirksen, arguments about that issue are "hogwash" and the only question is "whether the Federal Government-in this case the judicial branch-under the Constitution has the right and the authority to dictate the composition of state legislatures." Dirksen called on his colleagues to back the "Dirksen breather"-a rider attached to the $3.3 billion foreign aid bill that would delay states' compliance with the court ruling for two years. In the interim, Dirksen meant to promote a constitutional amendment permanently preventing federal courts from ruling on state legislative apportionment...
Some Senate liberals, mostly Democrats but with the backing of a handful of Republicans, were filibustering against the Dirksen rider. When Dirksen tried to invoke cloture, he failed. The filibustering liberals were joined in their nay votes by Southern Democrats who, although for the rider, defend filibusters as a matter of principle. Therefore the cloture motion lost, 63 to 30. The vote plainly did not reflect Senate sentiment about the Dirksen breather, as such, and on a subsequent motion to kill Dirksen's rider for good by tabling it, 49 Senators voted to keep it alive, with 38 against...
...object, therefore, was to delay implementation of any reapportionment schemes until such time as the Congress and the states could effect a constitutional amendment barring jurisdiction of the federal courts. To this end, Ev Dirksen filed a rider onto the foreign aid bill. It was a shrewd move: President Johnson could ill afford to veto foreign aid just to kill an obnoxious amendment. Dirksen's proposal required that federal courts, "in the absence of unusual circumstances," automatically grant stays in reapportionment cases if so much as one citizen in an affected state requested it. To Senate liberals and Administration...
Died. Hermann Hagedorn, 82, biographer of Theodore Roosevelt, a sometime playwright who, after meeting the old Bull Moose at a rally in 1916, became an armchair Rough Rider, devoted the rest of his life to chronicling the T.R. legend in five highly readable, painstakingly detailed books (The Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill); of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...