Word: thurmond
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Neither the House bill nor a similar Senate bill, cleared by the Judiciary Committee the same day, provides for licensing gun owners or federal registration of firearms. The bitter opposition of South Carolina's Strom Thurmond had convinced the Senate's chief gun-control proponent, Joseph Tydings, that his only chance for a tough bill lay on the Senate floor itself, where the Maryland Democrat hopes to revive the measure after the conventions...
...Thurmond further emasculated the weaker Dodd bill with six amendments, similar to those in the House, before the Judiciary Committee reported...
Pursuing that line with unrelenting tenacity, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond spent more than four hours denouncing decisions that have guaranteed the rights of criminal defendants. Rasped Thurmond: "Mallory! Mallory! I want that word to ring in your ears. Mallory! A man who confessed to a crime, and the court turned him loose on a technicality." In this instance, Fortas served as stand-in for the whole phalanx of Supreme Court predecessors. Mallory v. U.S., one of several cases that have brought full constitutional protections to defendants, was decided in 1957-eight years before he reached the bench...
...another point, Thurmond went to the heart of his complaint-namely, that the court's guarantees of defendants' rights sometimes permitted the guilty to go free along with the innocent. "Aren't you after getting the truth?" he demanded. "What difference does it make if there is a lawyer present or not? What difference does it make if you get the truth?" Fortas replied that the difference might be the Constitution. By the time Thurmond got to loyalty oaths, Fortas was beyond surprise. "Do you think," asked the South Carolinian, "that the parent of a child...
Spurred by lobbyists of the National Rifle Association, foes of gun controls reversed the earlier avalanche of congressional mail in favor of stricter gun laws. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, a coalition of conservative Midwesterners and Southerners, ramrodded by South Carolina's Republican Strom Thurmond, riddled Joseph Tydings' gun-control bill with escape-clause amendments, leaving little hope for enactment of a meaningful law by a Senate racing to adjourn by Aug. 3. In the House, Veteran Emanuel Celler, a doughty proponent of stiff gun laws, concluded sadly that he lacked votes to overcome a House Rules Committee...