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Should w<- declare that coercion, intimidation and threats are so. much a part of the electoral system of our Southern States that it is .Wrthle mat: we enact a law Riving tKe Attorney Genera! authority to shunt aside State electoral officials and State courts and seek federal rourt injunctions in the rame of the United States Go\r ernment. rather than in the name of a complaining citizen, “whenever any person has engaged or there are reasonable grounds to believe that any person is about to engage in jany act or practice which would deprive an>’ ot^er Person °f any right! or privilege related to voting? What will the Attorney General .-onsider' “reasonable grounds”? How wil be decide someone is “about to” interfere with another’s voting?
Finallyj lest we assume that the Senate modifications of the bill -recent anyone’s being sent to jail without a jury trial, because the Attorney General thinks the dozen has interfered with another s civil rights as to voting, or, for that matter, because a school official has become involved in a difference of opinion with a Federal judge on the force of the school integration decision, let us look at this portion of the "jury trial amendment”:
“So- ‘-ha!1 anything herdn or in any*other provision of law be construed to deprive courts of their power, by civil contempt proceedings, without a jury, to secure compliance with or to prevent obstruction of. as distinguished from punishment of violations of, anv lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of the court in accordance with the prevailing mages of law and equitv. including the power of detention.’
In short, the civil rights bill, as
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