Legal Opinion · Dissent

Michigan State UAW Community Action Program Council v. Secretary of State

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided June 20, 1972No. 4 January Term 1972, Docket No. 53,635Published

1DissentBlack, J.

I agree with the dissenting opinion Justice T. E. Brennan has prepared. It is endorsed accordingly. More however must be said. This visibly partisan decision of a majority of the Justices, all here by favor of the plaintiff Democratic Party and the other plaintiffs listed above, to butcher-cleave from Michigan’s election code one of her most potent safeguards “against abuses of the elective franchise”,1 simply has to be challenged. In a grim word, I mean to share no responsibility for any judicial action that opens the door ever wider for fraud on election day.

Upon this last remark let us be…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Tumey v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
  2. In Re Murchison.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
  3. Dunn v. BlumsteinSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
  5. Harper v. Virginia Board of ElectionsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966

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