Word: request
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Southern Strategy. The court's order brushed aside a Justice Department request to allow school boards time to draw up their own plans. The request, prepared by Jerris Leonard, chief of the Civil Rights Division, made it plain that the Administration does not plan to abandon its passive role in the desegregation fight, a role that, as part of the President's "Southern strategy," is calculated to build the Republican Party in Dixie. There was nothing in Leonard's proposal to suggest a firm determination to enforce the law. On the contrary, it could be construed...
...chief counsel for the Panthers, Garry, who is white, had represented Scale previously. "If Hoffman knew anything about the Panthers," says Professor Harry Kalvin Jr. of the University of Chicago Law School, "he would have understood that Garry is the only lawyer that Scale trusts, and therefore that his request for a postponement was not just a stunt to delay the trial." In Garry's absence, adds Professor Abraham Goldstein of Yale Law School, Hoffman should have allowed Scale to act as his own counsel and to personally cross-examine witnesses...
Rules of the Game. At week's end an attorney dispatched by Garry filed a notice of appeal on the contempt charges. Denying a request for bail, Hoffman asserted that the defendant "seeks to destroy the American judicial system." If nothing else, Scale's collision with the judge illustrates a key weakness in U.S. legal process. "This shows that the fragile legal system functions only if everyone is willing to some extent to play the game by the rules," says Professor Yale Kamisar of the University of Michigan Law School. Believing that the game was unjust, Scale refused...
...Nixon aide tonight told New Mobilization leaders that the President "could not comply" with their request for a meeting on Saturday...