Abstract

The Supreme Court Victory

The U.S. Senate's act in rejecting the nomination of John J. Parker for the Supreme Court which is regarded as the most encouraging event in domestic politics. It is true that a single victory does not always decide a campaign, and the margin in this case was uncomfortably narrow. Nevertheless, Parker's defeat definitely suggests that the impenetrable apathy which has characterized the public's attitude toward the public's business. The unsuccessful fight on jurists Charles Evans Hughes and the successful fight on Parker were inseparable phases of the same event, one leading inevitably to the other. The event itself was nothing less than a general uprising against the national plunderbund which has been operating under the protection of decisions handed down by the reactionary majority of the U.S. Supreme Court.