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Wachtler's lawyer is hoping to work out a plea that will keep his client out of jail. Looking back on his career, Wachtler once observed that it took about three years for a politician to become a real jurist. "Only then," he said, "do you stop thinking every Election Day about what might have been." It's a thought that will probably haunt him again...
...Clarence Thomas. When he nominated Thomas in July 1991, Bush insisted that he was "the best man" to sit on the Supreme Court. But even the President's aides admit that a jurist of Thomas' modest qualifications would never have been considered for the job unless he was a black conservative...
...will argue her tax-fraud case before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City at the end of the summer. As Solicitor General for Presidents Nixon and Ford, he spent four years arguing cases before the Supreme Court. But why would a distinguished legal scholar and jurist want to take an assignment like the Helmsley case? Explains the judge: "In the law, it's where the rubber meets the road...
...Presley, the most painful thing about the ruling was that Thomas took part in it. Because the black jurist had concurred in it, many blacks found it hard to discern its potentially damaging impact on their political aspirations. "Black people here learned a lesson from this," says Presley. "Just because he's black does not necessarily mean that he's positive...
What was Supreme Court Justice DAVID SOUTER doing while Clarence Thomas was cramming for his Senate confirmation grilling? The right thing. During his own trial by klieg lights last year, Souter received more than 1,000 letters. Friends say the quiet jurist spent this summer holed up at home in Weare, N.H., answering each and every one -- in longhand...