Word: warren
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...response in much of the South has been all deliberate resistance: 1,534 local districts in the Old Confederacy and Border States are still classified as segregated. Now the Supreme Court has run out of patience. Last week in Holmes v. Alexander-the first major judgment since Chief Justice Warren Burger joined the bench-the court unanimously ruled that the deliberate-speed formula "is no longer constitutionally permissible." The brusque, unsigned order declared: "The obligation of every school district is to terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and hereafter only unitary schools...
...blow, coming from what is at least nominally "Burger's court," startled some members of the Administration. Many Southerners who had believed that Burger's accession to Earl Warren's chair would somehow ease judicial pressure for integration were also shocked. The court did nothing to change the logic of decisions based upon the Brown precedent. Rather, the issue was timing: by commanding immediate compliance with the law, the Justices brought an urgent new perspective to the complex and long-delayed process of integration. The decision establishes a judicial canon that will probably end dejure segregation before...
Saturday night. Watts. Like an anthill. Gaggles of black people gathered and gabbing everywhere?on sidewalks, front steps, bars, service-station lots. Sergeant Warren Larson, white, cool and 30, drives through the gloom. "Shooting at 2024½ W. Florence Avenue," barks Larson's radio. "Any unit that can handle please identify...
Still more dialogue is needed, according to Berle, around another center of power, the Supreme Court. Berle calls the modern court "a revolutionary committee" that has reached "a power position senior to both the executive and legislative branches." He considers the Warren court's assumption of legislative responsibility both inevitable and desirable-in his terms, its school-desegregation and reapportionment decisions filled "fragments of chaos." He foresees, however, that the court's increasing use of the 14th Amendment, especially its "equal protection of the laws" doctrine, can be logically extended from schools and voting to such new areas...
Times and World-News, Robert Manning. Editor-in-Chief of the Atlantic Monthly (a former Nieman Fellow in 1946), and Warren H. Phillip. Executive Editor of the Wall Street Journal...