![]() ![]() Appellee, a member of the California State Senate, wished to show three Canadian films identified by the Department of Justice (DOJ) as "political propaganda" under the Act, but did not want to be publicly regarded as a disseminator of "political propaganda." He therefore brought suit in Federal District Court to enjoin the application of the term "political propaganda" to the films. The Act uses the term "political propaganda" to identify those expressive materials subject to its requirements, and defines the term as, inter alia, any communication intended to influence the United States' foreign policies. Arizona, 384 U.S.The Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (Act) requires registration, reporting, and disclosure by persons engaging in propaganda on behalf of foreign powers. Meese, Edwin, II, The Supreme Court of the United States: The Bulwark of a Limited Constitution, South Texas Law Review 27 (1985–1986): 455.McBride, James, Religion and the First Amendment: An Inquiry Into the Presuppositions of ‘‘the Jurisprudence of Original Intention,’’ Journal of Law and Religion 6 (1988).Power.’’ The New York Times, October 12, 1986, sec. 643, 1961) decisions, contending famously that the latter ‘‘only helps guilty defendants.’’ Meese had little success, though, in effecting a fundamental shift in the Supreme Court’s civil rights jurisprudence. Meese also advocated the reversal of the Court’s Miranda v. As such, Meese bucked the Supreme Court’s jurisprudential trend since the 1960s, which viewed most of the rights’ provision of the Constitution as ‘‘incorporated’’ by the Fourteenth Amendment and thus applicable to the states. His view that ‘‘the Constitution said what it meant and meant what it said’’ led him to contend that the Bill of Rights was designed only to apply to national government. Meese’s legal ideology found its moorings in the ‘‘jurisprudence of original intention,’’ a position that advocated interpretation of the Constitution in line with the plain meaning of the constitutional text and the intentions of the Framers. Meese was opposed throughout his term by such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union for his views on civil rights and the Constitution. Meese shared Reagan’s political views, and as a long time confidante with close access to the president, he pressed the president’s conservative agenda. As a deputy district attorney for Alameda County, California, Meese was a stern handler of student protesters at the University of California at Berkeley, directing the arrest of over seven hundred fifty antiwar activists.Īfter serving on the president’s National Security Council, among other positions, Meese acceded to attorney general after lengthy, contentious hearings that stalled his nomination for over a year. Meese worked in various capacities in the Reagan administration before his appointment to the cabinet, but he first came to Reagan’s attention during the 1960s while the latter was governor of California. Edwin Meese, III served as attorney general of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1988. ![]()
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