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written that expressed that expressed that view.”

We then began to discuss what effect this would have on all the outstanding cases, I said, “How many cases are there outstanding where we have either issued warrants of deportation, or where we have taken an action ordering deportation and an appeal has been taken, that are spending, including the Bridges case, where we have not yet issued the warrant, but have held the supplementary proceedings and are about to announce the formal hearing?” They didn't know how many, but it was quite a number. It later turned out that there were twelve cases where they had put in this same evidence of the Communist party's teaching the overthrow of government by force and violence, and therefore that implicating the particular individual who was being deported.

This was a problem. We, of course, discussed at once what to do with the other cases. Reilly said at once, “Of course, the only thing to do when you have a conflict of decisions in different circuits is to ask the Supreme Court to issue a writ of certiorari and to make the decision. In this case we've got exactly that. We've got other Circuit Courts who have sustained similar cases and who have sustained the immigration office in deporting individuals with a similar record.





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