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...former silver mine laborer and longtime University of Utah law professor, Ritter was appointed to the bench by President Truman in 1949. As a non-Mormon liberal, he was bitterly opposed for what was then the sole Utah federal trial judgeship in an acrimonious confirmation fight punctuated by charges of personal immorality and corruption. Ever since Territorial Justice James McKean hauled in Polygamist Brigham Young on adultery charges in 1871, federal judges have traditionally warred with the Utah Establishment; Ritter proved to be particularly contrary, and the only substantial victory against him?installation in 1954 of a second Utah federal...
Three of the five candidates under consideration for a Federal District judgeship in Massachusetts currently teach courses at the Law School, and a fourth is a graduate of Harvard College...
Bell, a Georgia country boy who made good, received his judgeship after helping to run John Kennedy's campaign in Georgia in 1960. By most reckonings, Bell's record in civil rights cases was generally good, at least in Deep South terms. But parts of that record have long rankled rights leaders...
...political host for the convention, the New York State Democratic Party, recently contributed some minor squalor to the air. The state chairman was indicted on charges of selling a judgeship and tampering with evidence. Yet it was typical of the new unity of the party that the New York Democrats, so prominent a force in years past, are binding together with others in the old Democratic coalition across the country-labor, minorities and so on. The prospect of victory, the scent of Republican blood, has been a powerful party healer...
...Madison Square, you see police everywhere, and some you don't see. Before he was indicted for selling a judgeship and tampering with evidence, Pat Cunningham, who was the New York State Democratic chairman, told people: "When you come out of the Garden at night, you will see some very strange people on the street. But don't worry. You'll be perfectly safe. Two out of three of them will be police undercover men." Assistant Chief Inspector Daniel Courtenay, a burly man who wears a gun in an ankle holster like Popeye Doyle, is in charge...