Burton v. Hobbie

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

The day may have now arrived to which the late Judge Richard T. Rives referred when expressing his feelings and the feelings of many of us in Dent v. Duncan, 360 F.2d 333 (5th Cir.1966):

I look forward to the day when the State and its political subdivisions will again take up their mantle of responsibility, treating all of their citizens equally, and thereby relieve the federal Government of the necessity of intervening in their affairs. Until that day arrives, the responsibility for this intervention must rest with those who through their ineptitude and public…