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...somewhat smaller group of professors who also signed the advertisement. have since the primary publicly switched their allegiance to the man who defeated McCormack, Edward M. Kennedy '54. Among this group are Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government; Virginia L. Galbraith, a professor of Economics at Amherst College; and James McGregor Burns, a professor of Political Science at Williams College...
...McCloskey noted that with the resignation this August of Justice Felix Frank-further, the argument for Supreme Court conservatism and self-restraint "lost its most powerful intellectual champion." He added that if one of the two recently appointed justices joins the four-man libertarian group, there will then be the potential for "dramatic reversals" of previous opinions, and for greater willingness "to take up the cudgel against state invasions of rights regarded as federally protected...
Illustrating the possibility of opinion reversals if the "libertarians" obtain a majority on the Court, McCloskey pointed to the fact that most decisions in subversion cases of the past decade were 5-4 verdicts. With the departure this year of Frankfurter and Charles E. Whittaker, who joined the conservative majority in those cases, the "balance could shift to the other side...
...McCloskey qualified his predictions with the reservation that no one really knows what judicial positions will be taken by Arthur Goldberg, appointed in August after Frankfurter's resignation, and Byron R. "Whizzer" White, appointed last March to replace Whittaker. The court term which began on Oct. 8 is the first one for both new justices...
...general approach and language of the New York prayer decision suggest that Bible-reading requirements will have a rather rocky time in the Court," McCloskey said. He doubted, however, that Justice Black's June majority opinion will be extensively clarified, "because the problem is so touchy that even if Bible-reading is invalidated, the Court will couch its decision in narrow terms...