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Fn other decisions, the Court has struck down Stjite laws designed to protect young people from peddlers of pornographic literature; it has Sprung to the defense of a nudist magazine and another frankly dedicated to homosexuality; it has cheered Communist conspirators by protecting their advocacy of overthrowing the government, as long a% the. reds don’t say precisely ‘ how thev intend to overthrow it; it has disrupted efforts of the States to protect their peoole from communist teachers and the practice of law bv communists; it has Wrgd. the States from enacting laws' against subversives it has given gangland carte blanche to
olir its nefarious deals by telephone, and provided new av suranee and swagger for the thugs who room the streets of the Nation’s Capital, scornful of police and prosecutor. > Tr mav well he asked. *\Vhy isn’t something done about it ?* There is no question that much can be done; if the people in all parts of the Nation become ^aroused.* Congress* for example, authority to iry subversives for, contempt at its own bar; the Cori'stitution gives Congress authority to limit the appellate iurisdiction of the Supreme Court; the Governors and Legislatures of the States can oppose t>v a number of legal instruments the invasion of the lawmaking field by the sociological theorists and legal oolitjcans who now sit on and debase the Constitutional function of our highest court. The Executive Branch can free itself from its recent demeaned status as mere handmaiden of the judiciary in law enforcement. 1 All this cannot come to pass, however, while citizens yiesy the Court only in the light of their pwn convictions on school segregation or integration. Highhanded as they may be, the school decisions have widespread public acceptance outside the South.'It is doubtful that our neighbors to the North and West would be so quick to approve the Supreme Court nullification of their protections against crime and subversion implicit in other court actions of recent years if these fearsome edicts were brought forcefully to their notice. There may be hope in the fact a few newspapers outside the South have begun to do this.
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