| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules - 1956 - 258 pagina’s
...to bring a civil suit for damages or injunotive relief "whenever any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act or practice which would deprive any other person" of the right to vote. This vague language is simlar to the provision in part III of HR 627 giving the... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rules - 1957 - 250 pagina’s
...what are essentially private wrongs. Moreover, the bill authorizes the granting of such relief — whenever any person has engaged or there are reasonable...believe that any person is about to engage in any acts or practices — which would deprive any other person of the right to vote or other civil rights,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1957 - 956 pagina’s
...says that the Attorney General may institute proceedings against a person who has engaged or is about to engage in any act or practice which would deprive any other person of any right or privilege concerned with voting. This is the same vicious provision I referred to earlier In the so-called provision... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1957 - 1322 pagina’s
...such candidate. "(c) Whenever any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act or l>r:u'tii-e which would deprive any other person of any right or privilege secured by subsection (a) or (b), the Attorney General may institute for the United States, or in the name of the United States but for... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1959 - 726 pagina’s
...will be recalled that that act authorized the Attorney General to institute civil proceedings whenever there are reasonable grounds to believe that any person...deprive any other person of any right or privilege of voting. Pursuant to such suit, of course, the Government has the usual subpena and related powers... | |
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