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RIGHTS EQUAL LIBERTY UNDER THE LAW HARRISON GRAY OTIS, 1881-1917 TRUE INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM HARRY CHANDLER, 1917-1944 NORMAN CHANDLER Chairman & President, Times Mirror Company OTIS CHANDLER Publisher ROBERT D. NELSON Vice-President & General Manager FRANK HAVEN JAMES BASSETT Managing Editor Director, Editorial Pages MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1964 NICK B. WILLIAMS Editor TIMES EDITORIALS Reforming the Supreme Court Controversy lias swirled around the U.S. Supreme Court since the Republic was new. Only the nature of the protest has changed. In older days, generally speaking, people differed with the court on its opinions of the constitutionality of spe- cific state and federal laws. Sometimes these differences were violent. The Dred Scott decision of 1857, which seemed to wipe out the 1820 limitation set to the extension of slavery, furn- ished kindling for the fires of the Civil Tar. During the last 15 years the basic by well-meaning people—or, worse yet, by the court itself—as the repository of all reforms, I think the seeds of trou- ble are being sown for this institution.'' Many critics have said what Justice Harlan implies, that the court seems bent on obliterating state and local rights, or at least in submerging them in a sea of federal uniformity. Up to now the people have been dis- inclined to curb the court. Congress flinches from statutes, and a pair of proposed constitutional amendments which were started last year on the hitherto futile route of state petition to Cnncrpcc frvv o wvnTiwi+i/-v -. ™""vfoablv Will mirf/'h ClViL On the Beach
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June 29, 1964;
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