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<¶After the Supreme Court decision reversing the contempt-of-Congress conviction of Union Organizer John Watkins for refusing to identify Communists he had known, an attorney for Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller observed that the Watkins decision "fits the [Miller] case like a glove." But in Washington last week...
Straight Battle. Coke is still constantly cited by lawyers and judges on both sides of the Atlantic, e.g., in Chief Justice Earl Warren's majority opinion on the Watkins case (TIME, July i). The complexities and oddities of Coke's Commentary upon Littleton helped make a lawyer of...
Concern for Leftists. The court virtually invited journalistic fulminations with its Watkins-case decision, curbing the investigatory powers of Congress, and its Smith Act ruling that it is not illegal to advocate overthrow of the U.S. Government as "an abstract principle divorced from any effort to instigate action to that...
Though there were exceptions, that basic piece of political philosophy, the Bill of Rights, was treated with the respectful debate it deserves. Even the Chicago Tribune's column-long editorial, though characteristically petulant, actually seemed restrained for a subject so close to the Tribune's prejudices. Many newspapers...