Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on Confirmation Hearings on Appointments to the Federal Judiciary and the Department of Justice

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Página 532 - I ask that it be incorporated in the record. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, that will be done. (The...
Página 344 - ... (c) If, upon a preponderance of the evidence after a trial upon the merits, the court finds — (1) that an election has not been held within the time prescribed by section 401, or (2) that the violation of section 401 may have affected the outcome of an election...
Página 651 - CANON 7 A LAWYER SHOULD REPRESENT A CLIENT ZEALOUSLY WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF THE LAW...
Página 434 - But he dismissed these arguments, maintaining that the "very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by courts.
Página 495 - It is no answer to say that this public need was not apprehended a century ago. or to insist that what the provision of the Constitution meant to the vision of that day it must mean to the vision of our time.
Página 341 - Act to other statutes) to make an investigation and in connection therewith he may enter such places and inspect such records and accounts and question such persons as he may deem necessary to enable him to determine the facts relative thereto.
Página 341 - TITLE VI -Miscellaneous Provisions INVESTIGATIONS SEC. 601. (a) The Secretary shall have power when he believes it necessary in order to determine whether any person has violated or is about to violate any provision of this Act...
Página 549 - Stare decisis is usually the wise policy, because in most matters it is more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than that it be settled right.
Página 341 - For the purpose of any investigation provided for in this Act, the provisions of sections 9 and 10 (relating to the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and documents) of the Federal Trade Commission Act of September 16, 1914, as amended (15 USC 49, 50) , are hereby made applicable to the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of the Secretary or any officers designated by him.
Página 549 - But in cases involving the Federal Constitution, where correction through legislative action is practically impossible, this Court has often overruled its earlier decisions. The Court bows to the lessons of experience and the force of better reasoning, recognizing that the process of trial and error, so fruitful in the physical sciences, is appropriate also in the judicial function.

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