Court Opinion

ID: 9450549
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:51:32.334315+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:22.343676
License: Public Domain

WRIGHT, Circuit Judge
(concurring) :
It seems more than passing strange, to me at least, that in some parts of this country citizens exercising their First Amendment rights of assembly, petition and free speech are arrested and convicted by the hundreds, while perpetrators of innumerable church bombings and burnings, kidnappings, beatings, maimings and murders of Negroes and civil rights workers are not prosecuted— or even apprehended. Perhaps, as appellants suggest, federal laws, or their enforcement, in this area are indeed inadequate. But I agree that an investigation as to the adequacy, or the execution, of these laws is not a matter within the jurisdiction of the judicial branch of this Government.