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...Justice Potter Stewart's ruling waives the Supreme Court's power to determine whether the committee asked Wilkinson to testify because he possessed facts about communism in Atlanta, or simply because he has made known his bitter opposition to its existence. Wikinson was, after all, a stranger in the city who had come there to stir up opposition to the committee. On the face of it, it does not seem probable that he would know much about communists in Atlanta. Yet when Stewart says it is not the business of the Court to "speculate" about the motives of the committee...
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