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Even if Yarbrough is disbarred, can he be kept off the bench? The state constitution requires only that a supreme court justice be 35 years old and have been a lawyer for ten years; it is mum on whether a justice must be an attorney when he takes his seat. Only the Texas supreme court itself can sort the matter out. Some Texas lawyers are hoping that the question will never arise. Efforts are under way to find a write-in candidate who can beat Yarbrough in the November election. It will be a long shot. A write...
Barrow campaigned extensively on his record of 17 years on the bench and was a 10-to-l favorite in a poll of Texas Bar Association members. Yarbrough spent $350 on his campaign, made one speech and beat Barrow with 60% of the vote. Since he is unopposed in the November general election, Yarbrough confidently plans to take his seat on the state supreme court next January...
...garrulous old Jewish men, played with great sensitivity by Mike Kellin and Michael Egan, sit on a bench facing Lake Michigan and talk like lobotomized Talmudic scholars about the habits of ducks and other subjects of which they know virtually nothing yet speculate about with endless comic invention. What emerges is a vivid sense of their friendship, the fear of solitude, the inexorable toll of expiring lives...
Former Federal Judge G. Harrold Carswell, who once aspired to a seat on the Supreme Court, was in a Florida hospital suffering from "nervous exhaustion and depression" last week and facing a court case of no grandeur. Carswell, 56, a 1970 Nixon nominee to the high bench whom the Senate rejected (51 to 45) after disclosure of his racist statements and mediocre court record, has been charged by a grand jury with "battery" and "attempting to commit an unnatural and lascivious act." According to State Attorney Harry Morrison, Carswell, now a Florida lawyer and bankruptcy referee, struck up a conversation...
...side of sanity was Judge Nathaniel Saltonstall (A.B. 1659), who left the bench rather than be a party to taking innocent blood. And the minister Joshua Moodey (A.B. 1653) helped several of the accused to escape, thereby incurring public wrath. Thomas Brattle (A.B. 1676) attacked the judges' methods in a lengthy and influential letter, which was circulated in copies...