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Outlined 50 years ago by Jurist Henry Kales at the founding of the American Judicature Society, the appointive-elective system has been getting more action in the past several years than in its first several decades. Its earliest large-scale trial was in Missouri in the 1940s, when the state's bar association corralled every willing organization from unions to the League of Women Voters into an intensive campaign that forced adoption of the plan against the adamant opposition of patronage-hungry state legislators...
...cannot have a wig-and-gown cantata while Rome is burning. The nation cannot be bamboozled by the diabolic insinuations and aspersions of a confused and antagonistic judiciary." Nkrumah completed the outrage when, in violation of Ghana's constitution, he sacked Sir Arku Korsah, 69, a widely respected jurist who in 1956 became Ghana's first black Chief Justice. Noting that even South Africa's high-handed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has never interfered with the judiciary, a shocked British official said: "This is the Stalinist technique...
...enough to be her grandfather, but spry is hardly the word for the pace he sets. After four months of marriage, Joan Martin Douglas, 23, reported that she could keep up-just barely-with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 65. "I'm taking vitamin pills," confessed the jurist's third wife. "Some people wondered how my husband would keep up with me, but I can't think of a minute when he isn't doing something constructive, speaking, writing, hiking or putting up storm windows." Hiking was the toughest part: "I'm all right...
...doctrine that the seas are open to the use of all mankind explains how to avoid the insoluble problem of extending into space the exclusive right of each nation to the air above it. Sovereignty extends upward as far as the hunter's weapons can reach, suggested Dutch Jurist Hugo Grotius in 1623, and allowing for the extra zip of modern musketry, today's pragmatic solution turns out to be much the same...
...belief or disbelief in a witness' testimony." He got into rows with his colleagues too, once said in open court that he hoped another judge would "keep his filthy mouth shut." The remark brought official rebuke for "using a courtroom as a forum for vilification of a fellow jurist...