Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went over the hill, was picked up the next day, convicted of desertion and sent out with a dishonorable discharge. In 1952 he applied for a passport and was refused on grounds, clearly supported by a congressional act, that his desertion had cost him his citizenship. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the majority opinion, with Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Charles Evans Whittaker joining. William Brennan concurred. Felix Frankfurter, Harold Burton, Tom Clark and John Marshall Harlan dissented. The upshot: 5 to 4 in favor of citizenship for Trop...
...Wrote Warren for the majority: "The judiciary has the duty of implementing the constitutional safeguards that protect individual rights. When the Government acts to take away the fundamental right of citizenship, the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence." Added Warren: "In some Si instances since this court was established, it has determined that congressional action exceeded the bounds of the Constitution. It is so in this case...
...wisdom of legislation. The awesome power of this court to invalidate such legislation, because in practice it is bounded only by our own prudence in discerning the limits of the court's constitutional function, must be exercised with the utmost restraint." He took special exception to Earl Warren's citing of the 81 times the Supreme Court has declared acts of Congress unconstitutional. That, said Felix Frankfurter, ad-libbing in his opinion, was not much to boast about-especially since a good many of those decisions had later been reversed by the court itself...
...majority opinion, written by Justice John Marshall Harlan, cited the overwhelming precedent upholding criminal-contempt convictions without juries. Justice William J. Brennan reserved his opinion on the constitutional points involved, dissented on the ground of insufficient evidence. But Hugo Black wrote a dissenting opinion for himself, Chief Justice Earl Warren and William Douglas, which struck at the foundations of the judiciary's enforcement powers. Wrote Black: "The power of a judge to inflict punishment for criminal contempt by means of a summary proceeding stands as an anomaly in the law . . . No official, regardless of his position or the purity...
...Inside Africa he predicted confidently that independence would not come soon to Morocco; less than a year after Inside Africa appeared on the bookstalls, Morocco was independent. The last 1951 edition of Inside U.S.A. perpetuates Stevenson Democrat Gunther's three-year-old thumbs-down verdict on Earl Warren (whom he had not met): "He will never set the world on fire or even make it smoke." In all his 35 years as a foreign-news specialist, Gunther has never learned a foreign language. His critics also take him to task for deliberately passing up fundamentals for froth. Inside Africa...