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...bench. Just as obviously, no one expects a Justice to sever old friendships when he takes the oath. On the other hand, even open, formal service to the President-as distinguished from informal advice such as Fortas gave Johnson-has been criticized. Eugene McCarthy has faulted Johnson for asking Earl Warren to head the commission investigating John Kennedy's assassination. Chief Justice Harlan Stone refused Franklin Roosevelt's request to look into the vexatious problem of how the nation was to get its desperately needed rubber during World War II. Such an extracurricular duty, Stone wrote, exposes...
Compare this with the thought and consideration surrounding the last appointment of a Chief Justice. Mr. Eisenhower makes the shameful admission that when he chose Earl Warren to the third highest office in the land, "I wasn't close to him when I appointed him . . . didn't really know him. But I liked his family, and I had been told he had been a good Governor" [June...
...done. Shakespeare took the names of the king and lords from four actual participants in the contemporary French civil war. And he made reference to an intellectual coterie that included Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Harriot, the 9th Earl of Northumberland, Matthew Roydon, and George Chapman--of whom you're lucky to have heard of more than...
Citizen & State. Asked by the court in 1962 to bring before it the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, prisoner No. 003826 at the Florida State Prison, Fortas, even as a private lawyer, was instrumental in shaping the decision that guaranteed any indigent defendant a court-appointed lawyer. Gideon was more than a case; it became an article of faith. As a member of the court, Fortas has supported other decisions that have radically broadened the rights of defendants. "We're not just dealing with the criminal and society," he once told an attorney who was arguing for the police point...
Thus, in an unsworn statement, the man whom the U.S. Government claims is James Earl Ray battled last week in London against extradition to face a murder charge in Tennessee. "Some of the [Government] testimony is false," he stated in a high-pitched Southern-accented voice. Ramon George Sneyd objected in particular to a British detective's testimony that when he was arrested on June 8 he blurted: "Oh God! I feel so trapped...