SOCL 4471 : Study Guide 3
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Board: lieutenant governor j. emile verret, attorney general fred s. leblanc. Affidavits turned over: official witnesses to execution say chair moved, willie"s lips puffed out, foster struggles to get chair to work while willie says he can"t breather. Deblanc then gave a rousing speech in which he showed a picture from father rouseve of. 3 days later the board return with a unanimous decision that willie is to. He contacts skelly wright from new orleans through a mutual friend. June 4, 1946 they write a petition of certiorari. Hugo black calls governor to make sure willie had not been executed. *these 3 claimed they would resign if jackson made the chief justice. Restraint weber"s formal rational law--------------- ------------------------activism substantive rational law (formal rational refers to codified law/rules that are general and abstract in nature and, therefore, truth is found through reasoning and logic) Justice take a more active role: role of sc broader than restraint allows.
