Word: upholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attorney Philip M. Cronin '53, arguing for Radcliffe, termed the City of Cambridge's demand for 92 parking spaces around the new library unreasonable. He asked the judges to uphold a lower court ruling exempting Radcliffe from the parking requirement...
...primary argument with the article as a whole is its relative treatment of Holmes and Frankfurter. Holmes is attacked with vigor; but Frankfurter gets a half-sympathetic treatment. This is difficult to understand. However questionable Holmes's reasoning, the results were liberal: he wanted to uphold progressive laws. Moreover he wanted to strike down more of the illiberal laws than anyone else on his court, with the possible exception of Brandeis. It is Frankfurter, on the other hand, who did the damage. He served in a period when upholding progressive economic laws was no longer a question, but upholding deprivations...
There are also two large loopholes in the wall that Wilson is seeking to build around Rhodesia: South Africa and Portugal, which share borders with Ian Smith's rebellious land. In Washington, British and U.S. officials stoutly maintained that both countries would uphold the embargo rather than risk diplomatic breaks with the Western powers. But would they? "This is obviously an internal affair between Britain and Rhodesia," declared a Lisbon official. "If tankers arrive in Mozambique with oil for Rhodesia, Portuguese authorities will not interfere." South Africa maintained a stolid silence. But there was small doubt where its true...
...result poses a dilemma in U.S. state-federal relations: how to uphold civil rights without eroding states' rights, such as the right to conduct local elections, enforce local laws, select local juries and hold local trials. The irony is that Southern states are largely responsible for creating the dilemma-and the Federal Government is earnestly trying to avoid...
...anxious on this score that in 1964 he pleaded "very limited power" to protect Mississippi Negroes. But as 29 top law professors quickly reminded him, the U.S. Code (Title 10, Section 333) fully empowers the President to use all necessary force on every foot of American soil to uphold the constitutional rights of "any part or class" of U.S. citizens whenever local officials fail to do so. Politics, the professors made clear, not weakness, dictated federal policy...