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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NEWSLETTER APRIL 16, 1970 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE and REGULAR MEMBERSHIP MEETING! ! ! SUNDAY – APRIL 19, 1970 – 5:30 PM CITY HALL – COUNCIL ROOM "We Couldn't Say it Better!!! "Carswell's Defeat Eases 'Crisis of Confidence" A principle prevailed over a party and prejudice as U.S. Senators rose above race, religion and politics to reject, by a vote of 51-45, the nomination of Judge G. Harold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court. In turning thumbs down on the southern nominee, the 51 solons salvaged some faith in the system by showing that the democratic process can work. In a time of strife in the streets and distrust in the democratic system, the 51 U.S. Senators made it clear that the U.S. Supreme Court is no mansion for mediocre men and no refuge for racism. Resisting pressure of a party and lining up behind the leadership of sagacious Senators Birch E. Bayh of Indiana and Edward Broke of Massachusetts, Senator Charles Percy of Illinois struck at the heart of the issue: "We are faced with a crisis of confidence in America," he concluded. This was an eloquent insight and the action by the 51 senators will do much to restore faltering faith and reassure the people of this country that the democratic process can work and when it does, it is the best system devised by man. Since we are among the first to criticize the system's shortcoming, we hasten to hail the system's success. We commend the senators who allowed reason to rise above region and race so that principle could prevail over party and prejudice." -JET Magazine -April, 1970 Following is a statement from Roy Wilkens regarding the letter which President Nixon wrote to Senator William B. Saxbe, questioning the Senate's right to substitute its judgement for his, in the matter of the Carswell nomination. "President Nixon's letter to Senator William B. Saxbe, released on April 1, (the date could not have any significance, or could it?), charges that senators who oppose him on the Carswell nomination are violating the constitutional checks and balances of our system of government. The arguments offered to sustain this assertion are so far-fetched as to make it clearer than ever that the President is sadly in need of a new set of legal advisers. The very logic of the Nixon thesis is self-refuting. He agrees that, "if the charges against Judge Carswell were supportable, the issue would be wholly different." But this is precisely what the debate is all about: Whether the charges are supportable. Does the President really University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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Fort Madison, Branch OF THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NEWSLETTER APRIL 16, 1970 Fort Madison, Iowa 52627 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE and REGULAR MEMBERSHIP MEETING! ! ! SUNDAY – APRIL 19, 1970 – 5:30 PM CITY HALL – COUNCIL ROOM "We Couldn't Say it Better!!! "Carswell's Defeat Eases 'Crisis of Confidence" A principle prevailed over a party and prejudice as U.S. Senators rose above race, religion and politics to reject, by a vote of 51-45, the nomination of Judge G. Harold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court. In turning thumbs down on the southern nominee, the 51 solons salvaged some faith in the system by showing that the democratic process can work. In a time of strife in the streets and distrust in the democratic system, the 51 U.S. Senators made it clear that the U.S. Supreme Court is no mansion for mediocre men and no refuge for racism. Resisting pressure of a party and lining up behind the leadership of sagacious Senators Birch E. Bayh of Indiana and Edward Broke of Massachusetts, Senator Charles Percy of Illinois struck at the heart of the issue: "We are faced with a crisis of confidence in America," he concluded. This was an eloquent insight and the action by the 51 senators will do much to restore faltering faith and reassure the people of this country that the democratic process can work and when it does, it is the best system devised by man. Since we are among the first to criticize the system's shortcoming, we hasten to hail the system's success. We commend the senators who allowed reason to rise above region and race so that principle could prevail over party and prejudice." -JET Magazine -April, 1970 Following is a statement from Roy Wilkens regarding the letter which President Nixon wrote to Senator William B. Saxbe, questioning the Senate's right to substitute its judgement for his, in the matter of the Carswell nomination. "President Nixon's letter to Senator William B. Saxbe, released on April 1, (the date could not have any significance, or could it?), charges that senators who oppose him on the Carswell nomination are violating the constitutional checks and balances of our system of government. The arguments offered to sustain this assertion are so far-fetched as to make it clearer than ever that the President is sadly in need of a new set of legal advisers. The very logic of the Nixon thesis is self-refuting. He agrees that, "if the charges against Judge Carswell were supportable, the issue would be wholly different." But this is precisely what the debate is all about: Whether the charges are supportable. Does the President really University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa Women's Archives
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