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Senator J. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) called last night for resistance to "usurpation of power by the federal judiciary." In a speech at the Harvard Law Forum, he expressed concern with "the entire recent trend" of Supreme Court Activities...
...Thurmond also expressed concern over Constitutional usurpation by the other branches of the federal government. He cited Eisenhower's use of federal troops in Little Rock, and the enaction of civil rights legislation, which he characterized as "unnecessary, unwise, and unconstitutional...
...claimed that the Civil Rights Act was "rammed through" Congress by legislators interested in swaying the Negro vote in Northern urban-industrial states. Thurmond delayed the process last summer by filibustering before the Senate for 24 hours...
Last week's would-be political Lazarus: South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond, entombed as the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, who seemed willing to rise again. In Rock Hill, S.C., Thurmond cried out for a "real Democrat" (a term he deems almost exclusive to himself) to take over the state's party leadership and be ready to act "independently...
...Senator Thurmond may have told Senator Russell that he intended to make a "long speech," but he did not say he intended to make a Senate-record filibuster...