Court Opinion

ID: 9449895
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:27:09.245529+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:02.710876
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GEWIN and GRIFFIN B. BELL, Circuit Judges
(concurring in part and dis-
senting in part).
With all deference to our brothers, and realizing that it involves for each of us a matter of judgment, we would make our injunction the mandate of this court and forward it to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, thei-e to be made the judgment of that court, and to be supervised and enforced along with our injunction of July 28, 1962 which was entered by that court on September 13, 1962 pursuant to our mandate. Our appellate jurisdiction would continue but the remand should tend to restore normalcy in Mississippi, and would comport with good judicial administration under the circumstances.
Of course, we should retain the contempt proceedings now pending against Governor Barnett and Lieutenant Governor Johnson for final disposition but such retention in no way militates against remand. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor must yield in order to purge themselves of contempt. They must yield also to preserve the integrity of the judicial process, the Federal Constitution and their oaths of office pursuant thereto:
“ * * * and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; * * * ” Article 6, Clause 3.
Upon their yielding, the enforcement, of all other outstanding orders in this matter would and should be the duty of the District Court.
We have serious doubts, from a procedural and substantive point of view, as to the joinder of the State of Mississippi as a party. We would dissolve the temporary restraining order as to the State of Mississippi and would not include the State of Mississippi in the preliminary injunction. U.S.Const. Art. Ill, § 2, par. 2 and the 11th Amendment.
We concur in the order of the majority save in this respect.