So on that charge we find that the appeal was wholly handled by the Department of Justice. outside and beyond the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Labor. Another serious charge was that the Strecker case was deliberately weakened by the accused. On this the Secretary says: Neither I nor the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization nor the Solicitors Office had anything to do with the presentation of this case * * *. My personal attention was not brought to the case until the decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. since it was handled in the lower courts as a purely routine matter between the district director and the local United States attorneys. The district courts which first passed on the case apparently regarded the evidence as adequate to support the deportation order. since a writ of habeas corpus was not only denied by Judge Borah in the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (the order subsequently reversed). but also by Judge Martineau In the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Thus. step by step. the Secretary of Labor riddled the tissue of ignorance. prejudice. and misrepresentation which constituted the charges in this case. One more quote from the Secretary: The impeachment resolution states that the petition for certiorari (to the Supreme Court) in the Strecker case was drafted in the office of the Secretary of Labor.
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