Word: thurgood
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...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 the court could...
...century-old ritual, Attorney General Katzenbach last week formally introduced the crack lawyer whose cases may well dominate the new term's crowded Supreme Court docket. He is zesty, earthy Thurgood Marshall, 57, once the country's most successful civil rights lawyer, later a federal judge and now the 33rd U.S. Solicitor General. Looking amused at his own anachronistic costume of striped pants, black vest and swallow-tailed coat, Marshall beamed as Chief Justice Warren intoned: "The court welcomes...
There are eight Negro federal judges, 100 city, county and state judges, four U.S. ambassadors. Thurgood Marshall, who recently resigned from the federal bench at the urging of President Johnson to become U.S. Solicitor General, represents the U.S. in the most important litigations before the Supreme Court. Carl Rowan, onetime Ambassador to Finland, only recently resigned as director of the USIA, where he was chiefly responsible for projecting the U.S. image abroad. Edward W. Brooke, attorney general of Massachusetts, is the highest elected Negro state officer in the U.S. Senator Leroy R. Johnson two years ago became Georgia...
...Confirmed, in the Senate, the nomination of Abe Fortas, 55, to the Supreme Court (three votes against), John W. Gardner, 52, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (unanimous), and Thurgood Marshall, 57, as U.S. Solicitor General (unanimous...
What Do You Care? Not an easy man to work with, Johnson at first found it hard to recruit top men for government. But his recent appointments-Arthur Goldberg to the U.N., Thurgood Marshall as Solicitor General, John Gardner as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court-have not only been topnotch, but should make it possible for him to get almost anyone he wants in the future...