Word: higginbotham
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...decision of the National Bar Association (NBA)--the nation's largest organization of black judges and lawyers--to invite Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to speak at its annual July convention has drawn sharp criticism from a number of the organization's members including A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government...
...judicial council was never intended to be a special social elite group of persons who, after they become successful in public life, then forget or denigrate their brothers and sisters who still live in poverty and who are powerless and suffer from inadequate and ineffective public representation," Higginbotham wrote in a letter to each of the 840 members of the judicial council, a branch of the NBA composed of current and retired judges...
Taking issue with Thomas's conservative views and anti-affirmative action stance, yesterday Higginbotham, a retired federal appellate judge and longtime member of the NBA's judicial council, made an appearance on NBC's "Today" television program where he urged the NBA to rescind Thomas' invitation...
Kennedy School Public Service Professor ofJurisprudence A. Leon Higginbotham, a long-timefriend of Guinier attended the speech, and saidGuinier was an invaluable addition to the HLSfaculty...