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Democratic Representative John J. Flynt, Jr. of Georgia, has introduced a bill to guarantee the right of jury trial in federal court contempt cases which would apply to “citations for contempt of court which involves acts committed outside the presence of the court by persons not parties to the litigation involved.” Flynt referred specifically to the Clinton, Tennessee, contempt cases in which, he says, “A Federal District Court judge took upon himself the power not to interpret the law but rather to make the law.” … A federal judge in Birmingham has ruled that University of Alabama officials were justified in expelling Autherine Lucy last spring for “making false, defamatory, impertinent and scandalous charges against them.” . . . The attempt to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which limits a President to two terms, got down to personalities (Mr. Nixon’s specifically) when Democratic Senator Neuberger of Oregon proposed a clause under which, if the office of President is vacated during the first two years of a term, mid-term elections would be held . . . Senator Bridges has reintroduced his proposed constitutional amendment requiring the President to propose a balanced budget each year and preventing Congress from unbalancing it by increasing spending without a corresponding rise in taxes. . . . The House Committee on Un-American Activities has brought up to date its 1951 report on subversive organizations and publications. Among the new listings, the Institute of Pacific Relations, the National Rosenberg-Sobell committees, the Methodist Federation for Social Action and the Emergency Civil Liberties committees . . . The Supreme Court will review the claim of 23 Hollywood writers and actors to $51 million in damages on the grounds that they were blacklisted and denied employment for taking the Fifth Amendment or refusing to appear before congressional investigating committees in 1951 and 1952. The California Court of Appeals had dismissed these charges earlier.

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Democratic Representative John J. Flynt, Jr. of Georgia, has introduced a bill to guarantee the right of jury trial in federal court contempt cases which would apply to “citations for contempt of court which involves acts committed outside the presence of the court by persons not parties to the litigation involved.” Flynt referred specifically to the Clinton, Tennessee, contempt cases in which, he says, “A Federal District Court judge took upon himself the power not to interpret the law but rather to make the law.” … A federal judge in Birmingham has ruled that University of Alabama officials were justified in expelling Autherine Lucy last spring for “making false, defamatory, impertinent and scandalous charges against them.” . . . The attempt to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which limits a President to two terms, got down to personalities (Mr. Nixon’s specifically) when Democratic Senator Neuberger of Oregon proposed a clause under which, if the office of President is vacated during the first two years of a term, mid-term elections would be held . . . Senator Bridges has reintroduced his proposed constitutional amendment requiring the President to propose a balanced budget each year and preventing Congress from unbalancing it by increasing spending without a corresponding rise in taxes. . . . The House Committee on Un-American Activities has brought up to date its 1951 report on subversive organizations and publications. Among the new listings, the Institute of Pacific Relations, the National Rosenberg-Sobell committees, the Methodist Federation for Social Action and the Emergency Civil Liberties committees . . . The Supreme Court will review the claim of 23 Hollywood writers and actors to $51 million in damages on the grounds that they were blacklisted and denied employment for taking the Fifth Amendment or refusing to appear before congressional investigating committees in 1951 and 1952. The California Court of Appeals had dismissed these charges earlier.

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