O'Connor v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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1. ““These applications have for their purpose the rejection of the independent nominating petition, heretofore filed in the office of the board of elections, pur porting to nominate Earl Browder as a candidate for Representative in Congress from the 14th Congressional District of New York, at the special election set for February 6, 1940. One of these applications is made by Hon. John J. O’Connor, a former Representative in Congress from this state, and the other by Hon. Lambert Fairchild, a former member of the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York. While they differ in some details, both applications are directed principally to the contention that the person nominated is ineligible as a candidate for public office by reason of his open espousal of international communism and his avowed standing as a leader of the communist party in America. They argue that the belief in and advocacy of communism is so alien to the belief in and advocacy of the American system of government that the candidacy of a communist for a seat in the Congress of the United States is incongruous and against public policy. However sympathetic one may be to the principle contended for by these applicants, one must not allow himself to forget that the American system is itself based on law, and that the best service that can be rendered that system is to live by and observe that law.” * * * “Browder, it appears, has all the qualifications required by the Constitution. To impose upon him the additional q”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Crane