AJ 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Voting Rights Act Of 1965
15 Sep 2020
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Huac ordered francis crowley, who admitted that while he attended michigan grad school in 1950, he belonged to club with ties to communist party. Told committee that lloyd barneblatt, his college roommate, was member as. House held barenblatt in contempt for refusing to answer questions, and a. Was huac"s questioning clear enough for barenblatt to tell whether questions were. Ruling: 5 (clark, frankfurter, harlan, stewart, whittaker) to 4 (clack, brennan, douglas, Dissenting opinions: black, brennan (black was 1st amendment absolutist) Yes: house"s conviction of barenblatt upheld; violation of federal law when barenblatt refused to answer. Court held that huac can compel witnesses if the pertinence was clear; 5th amendment does not permit witnesses to avoid questions about them. Court deferred to congress"s implied power to investigate for legislative purposes. Court also held that huac did not violate barenblatt"s 1st amendment rights, as. Court seemed to draw back from earlier ruling in watkins.
