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Throughout, Earl Warren was both symbol and target. Bumper stickers reading IMPEACH EARL WARREN-or in California, FLUORIDATE EARL WARREN -festooned countless autos, and the Chief Justice was long No. 1 on the far right's hate list. In 1954, Mississippi's Senator James Eastland denounced Warren's court as "the greatest single threat to our Constitution"; last week George Wallace declared that "he's done more to destroy constitutional government in this country than any one man." Even Dwight Eisenhower, who thought of Warren as a mildly progressive Republican when he named him Chief Justice...
Panama's Supreme Court ruled last week that the country's real President is Marco Aurelio Robles, 62. Eight to one, it declared illegal his impeachment by the opposition-dominated National Assembly (TIME, April 5) and the installation of First Vice President Max Delvalle as his successor. That means that Robles will rule until the winner of the May 12 elections takes office. The candidates are Arnulfo Arias, who led the movement to impeach Robles, and Prime Minister David Samudio, whom Robles backs...
...Less serious criticism may well be muted henceforth. Robert Welch recently announced that his John Birch Society was shelving its "Impeach Earl Warren" campaign for lack of public response...
...followed "by a legally blameless life," it "should generally be excluded on the ground of remoteness." The court also felt that previous convictions on the same charge "should be admitted sparingly," with perhaps only one allowed. Finally, the court noted, even if the convictions are otherwise appropriate to impeach credibility, the trial judge may still bar them-if the defendant's testimony is so important that he should not be deterred from giving it by fear that his convictions will be offered against him. In difficult cases, said the court, perhaps the best thing to do would...
...Jury service is best handled by reliance on "the powers given both parties to challenge jurors" on their qualifications in a particular case. In addition, "no conviction should make a person incompetent to testify. Instead, any convictions particularly relevant to credibility should be admissible to impeach the witness...