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What about the impact of the verdict on his future career? "I am not sure. I was told by some people that if what I wanted was a federal judgeship I shouldn't try the case. But I never felt that I could turn over the handling of the trial to any of my deputies...
JUDGE BRUCE MCMARION WRIGHT was appointed to the New York City Criminal Court bench by Mayor John V. Lindsay in 1970. According to Wright, city officials were looking around for a black lawyer to appoint to a judgeship and somebody probably said, "Well, how about this Bruce Wright, he should be all right. He doesn't have a big Afro, he has a law office on Park Avenue, and he went to Yale Law School." "I guess I sort of surprised them," Wright says, smiling...
Marshall attacked the point by posing a hypothetical conversation involving the sale of a judgeship. Should the President be entitled to confidentiality...
...largely a journal of commentary rather than of breaking news. For nearly a century, the Globe offered no competition, but it unproved abruptly after Tom Winship, 53, became editor in 1965. The following year the Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for its campaign to block a federal judgeship for Francis X. Morrissey, a crony of Joseph P. Kennedy's. Its four-man "Spotlight" investigative team picked up another Pulitzer for a 1971 expose of municipal scandals in neighboring Somerville. The Globe, which had not backed a presidential candidate since 1900, changed policy by declaring for Humphrey...
...Becky cry only on her wedding day, Becky retorted: "That's not a very realistic possibility," adding that she might not even get married. Ms. America, an Iowa farmer's daughter and college graduate, has other plans first, like law school and a juvenile court judgeship...