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Feminists might say that these figures show a need to crack down on "deadbeat dads." That blithely misses the point. As revolutionary patriot, jurist and marriage counselor James Wilson said, "When divorces can be summoned to the aid of levity, of vanity or of avarice, a state of marriage becomes frequently a state of war or stratagem; still more frequently, a state of premeditated and active preparation for successful stratagems...
Still, some of Marshall's fans believe her interests in human rights and public access to the courts will naturally come to the fore in her new role as a jurist--instincts which may have come under pressure in her capacity as Harvard's lawyer...
...light. Clinton interfered with the process as surely as if he had flown to New York to demonstrate against the judge's original decision. Dole's post-reversal words appear equally hypocritical. When the leader of the Senate, the body with the power to remove judges, calls for a jurist's impeachment, that's pressure...
...Massachusetts Governor's Council confirmed Law School professor Charles Fried as a justice on the state's Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). No one can controvert Fried's qualifications as a scholar, but he does leave much to be desired in other areas. He has no experience as a jurist at the state level, and his political views will further submerge Massachusetts in the conservative tide initiated by Gov. William F. Weld...
...charges that Fried would not be an impartial jurist, Kabawat pointed out that Justice Ruth Abrams lived in a rent-controlled unit for nearly a decade prior to rent control's elimination. SJC justices earn more than $90,000 annually...