Recent Cases: Treaties. Extradition. Receiving Money Knowing It to Have Been Fraudulently Obtained

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Constitutional Law-Validity of Party Resolution Depriving Negro of Right to Vote in Party Primary- [Federal].-TheState Democratic Convention of Texas passed a resolution "that all white citizens of the state, who are qualified to vote under the Constitution and laws of Texas shall be eligible for membership in the party and as such shall be eligible for participation in the primaries."The state executive committee of the party declared that the effect of this was to deprive Negroes of the right to vote at the primaries.Held, in suit by a qualified Negro voter for mandamus to restrain local officials of the party in charge of the primary from carrying out this order, that petition be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction to grant the relief sought, since the lower federal court had no power to grant a mandamus against state officials.White v. County Democratlic Executive Committee of Harris County, 6o F. (2d) 973 (S.D. Tex.1932).The most interesting portion of the decision is the broad dic

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