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That was the whole point. To set himself up as a segregationist hero, Orval Faubus had chosen to manufacture violence in Little Rock and make a dramatic issue of integration in a city long untroubled by major racial difficulties. His refusal to back down put the matter squarely up to Judge Davies (see box) and the U.S. district court where Faubus had been summoned to show cause why a temporary injunction should not be issued against...
Unalterable Stand. The smallish courtroom on the west end of Little Rock's granite Federal Court Building was crowded to capacity (about 130)-but Orval Faubus was conspicuously absent. He satisfied the requirements of the summons by sending three lawyers, including Democratic State Committee Chairman Tom Harper...
Judge Davies entered the courtroom at 10 a.m., climbed the dais and engulfed himself in a padded chair several sizes too large. Immediately before him was a group of delaying motions filed by the Faubus legal battery: that Judge Davies disqualify himself on the ground of personal bias, that service of subpoenas against National Guard officers be quashed, that the case be dismissed because it should be heard by a three-judge court...
...Faubus attorneys seemed hardly to care what happened to the motions. Within minutes after young, nervous Faubus Lawyer Kay Matthews began a rambling argument for the disqualification motion, Little Rock School Superintendent Virgil Blossom became the first-but by no ' means the last-spectator to fall sound asleep. Again, while addressing himself to another motion, Faubus Lawyer Walter Pope said his whole argument was in his brief, and someone had once told him that judges could read. Smiled Ronald Davies: "Yes, I am one of the judges who can read." Moments later the Faubusinspired motions were quietly and firmly...
That was enough for the Faubus lawyers. Chief Counsel Tom Harper, smiling and benign, stepped to the bar and began reading from scribbled notes: "The position of the respondent, Governor Faubus and his military officers, must be firm, unequivocal, unalterable: that the governor of the State of Arkansas cannot and will not concede that the U.S. in this court or anywhere else can question his discretion and judgment . . ." Harper left one door open for retreat: "This is not to say that the respondents will not comply until they can be set aside, with orders, even though they may be made...