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...earlier in a deal to provide favorable treatment for defendants in a racketeering case before him. Despite his being legally cleared, Congress determined that the evidence against Hastings was still powerful enough to remove him from the bench, which the Senate voted to do in 1989 - even though Senators Arlen Specter and Jeff Bingaman, the top Republican and Democrat who supervised the proceedings, voted against expelling Hastings from office. The impeachment proceedings were later invalidated by an appeals court judge in 1993, although that ruling was itself later vitiated by the Supreme Court. Reports on those impeachment proceedings were posted...
...earlier in a deal to provide favorable treatment for defendants in a racketeering case before him. Despite his being legally cleared, Congress determined that the evidence against Hastings was still powerful enough to remove him from the bench, which the Senate voted to do in 1989 - even though Senators Arlen Specter and Jeff Bingaman, the top Republican and Democrat who supervised the proceedings, voted against expelling Hastings from office. The impeachment proceedings were later invalidated by an appeals court judge in 1993, although that ruling was itself later vitiated by the Supreme Court. Reports on those impeachment proceedings were posted...
...escape an inequitable but inevitable murder change, Brooks and Arlen hit the rails, she clothed in a man's shirt, trousers and cap. She's famished, but she can't eat the food Arlen took from her home, and which she presumably prepared for the man she killed. He has lived on the road (the movie anticipated many more in the '30s about the homeless), but she is unsuited to the train-hopping and the rough camaraderie of bindlestiffs, especially when they discover she's a woman. She doesn't want more of what she got at home...
...second half, the movie gets pretty conventional. Another tramp, tough Wallace Beery, commandeers the gang and threatens to steal Brooks from Arlen. But under his rags, he can be noble - a member of the hobocracy - and facilitates an improbable happy ending. Beggars of Life was an unusually solemn project for Brooks, and her character must tilt from plaintive hoyden to, at the end, a child bride dressed in Gish garb. But she proves she can be earnest and yearning and winsome every bit as convincingly as she is cool and seductive and corrosive...
...supposed to be frightened out of our wits about the threat from Iran, which is still several years away from producing a nuclear weapon? In George Orwell's novel 1984, the state was in a perpetual war with a constantly changing enemy. Does that sound familiar? Arlen Grossman Monterey, California...