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...federal grand jury indictments under Section 241 against three lawmen, six Ku Klux Klansmen and 15 other private persons. Two federal judges tossed the indictments out, ruling that freedom from murder is not one of the rights protected by Section 241. On appeal to the Supreme Court last week, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall argued that despite the 1951 ruling, the U.S. has power to "remove an obstruction interposed by a gang of toughs between Negroes and their constitutional rights." Speaking of Washington Negro Lemuel Penn, who was murdered while driving on a Georgia highway last year, Marshall argued that...
...felt that the decision had had no simple, direct effect on the American party structure. "The impact on parties is a speculative matter and varied from case to case," he stated. The reapportionment case had originally been taken up by a Republican solicitor general, Lee Rankin, before it was presented under a Democratic administration, he reminded his audience...
Archibald Cox '34, Samuel Williston Professor of Law, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lowell House Junior Common Room on "The Supreme Court and the Reapportionment Cases." Cox argued the cases as Solicitor General of the United States during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...
Seeing Two Sides. Even before he gets to the courtroom, the Solicitor General has the power to pass on every appeal brought by the U.S. Government at every level of the nation's court system. With his tiny staff of ten elite lawyers, the Solicitor General sifts almost ) possible Government appeals a year in every imaginable field. His approval is not given lightly. Unlike other lawyers, who are primarily advocates for only one side of a conflict, the Solicitor General serves the Supreme Court as well as the Government. He is less interested in victory than in whether...
...Solicitor General is often judged less by his Supreme Court victories than by his success in getting federal agencies to accept lower-court decisions. In 1964 Archibald Cox, Marshall's predecessor, who plans to resume teaching labor law at Harvard, held off 74% of the requests tor appeals from decisions against the Government in U.S. district courts Of 385 potential appeals to the Supreme Court, he approved only 43. Such selectivity pays off: the Supreme Court now accepts about 66% of the Government's petition compared with less than 10% of those of private lawyers...