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The “Red Monday” Decisions, Jencks, and a Crescendo of Anti-Court Attacks
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This chapter discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions during its October 1956 term. The Court’s level of resistance to repressive McCarthy-era government action reached its zenith in the 1956 term. The Court issued eleven signed decisions in “Communist” cases, and the government lost them all. Four were issued the same day, June 17, 1957, a day critics called “Red Monday.” Two other significant cases were decided in per curiam opinions, again adversely to the government. The decisions, spanning the spectrum of anti-“subversive” actions, seemed to indicate diminished concern by the Court for adverse reaction. Among several decisions relating to Smith Act prosecutions, one, Yates v. United States, not only reversed the convictions of fourteen Community Party of America officials but also made it more difficult for the government to secure future Smith Act conspiracy convictions.
Title: The “Red Monday” Decisions, Jencks, and a Crescendo of Anti-Court Attacks
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This chapter discusses the U.
S.
Supreme Court’s decisions during its October 1956 term.
The Court’s level of resistance to repressive McCarthy-era government action reached its zenith in the 1956 term.
The Court issued eleven signed decisions in “Communist” cases, and the government lost them all.
Four were issued the same day, June 17, 1957, a day critics called “Red Monday.
” Two other significant cases were decided in per curiam opinions, again adversely to the government.
The decisions, spanning the spectrum of anti-“subversive” actions, seemed to indicate diminished concern by the Court for adverse reaction.
Among several decisions relating to Smith Act prosecutions, one, Yates v.
United States, not only reversed the convictions of fourteen Community Party of America officials but also made it more difficult for the government to secure future Smith Act conspiracy convictions.
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