George Weston Anderson Quotes
I can hardly sit on the bench and restrain my indignation at the tyrannous methods of the Department of Justice …. More lawless proceedings are hard to imagine.
The Judge’s reference was to the Justice Department behavior at the trial of a group of radicals in Boston.
George Weston Anderson, 1861-1938, Federal Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals, Member, Interstate Commerce Commission, Quoted in ACLU, Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the Department of Justice, May 1920
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George Weston Anderson was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
