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= ; JOHNSTON charged that the appointee practiced barratry and _ + gapintenance (mantaining, supporting, or pr mo ting the litigation : | @f another). JOHNSTON mentioned a Case in strict court. . ef Saith Count Texas, Seventh Judicial District - the State of - Yexas against the NAACP. In that case the judge found that the NAACP and its dominated NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund among other things to have practiced barratry contrary to the laws of Texas. -JOHNSTON mentioned the sppointee'’s association - with these organizations. JOHNSTON mentioned that the appointee was questioned as to an appeal to the above case, and the ‘=. appointee advised that the case was never appealed. . é Mr. THURMOND mentioned a case = NAACP against HARRISON ~*~ in the Supreme Court of ‘lower ¢ of the State of Virginia. THURM . €eid this court upheld a lower court _which had held that the Solicitation of business Dy the "NAACP violated Virginia iaw end - eBnons of legal ethics. : 7 2s oye oe JOHNSTON mentioned the appointee's testizony astohis ~*, +-2°.” . membership in’ the NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD subsequent to the cabst rare "pzesigne tion Of several who resigned because the Communist dems Bee Sanat “Ste mentioned that the testimony clesriy shows that - + “the appointee was the principal speaker at a rally held b reve, AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY. JOHNSTON identiz rt] nha FE te arcana roe afseattan ‘as @ Communities front” greup ana guetes Sage re appointee as “hay itg ‘testified, "I might “have been “nalye* rs , «ASR Sate raed Se seer ‘ Rey, oe eS io BEA eo Age a ee ay, ST, Teale. es ; mentioned the” subversive elements which” bave™ “an iltreted the NAACP and mentioned @ speech in: this regard” De ‘- documented from the files of the House Committee on Un-American” ‘Activities by Representative E. C. GATHINGS of ‘Arkansas. Ses | 7 Apreviootly reviewed « end Feported) | See To . -: 3.3) Nee yc HART reported ‘that “the chairman’ of ‘the étanding BF ” conmittes of the Federal judiciary of ‘the American® Bar %=~ -f<- 2 Assoédation had furnished information that the standing aes sac ~< committee had interviewed, in person or by telephone, more: oh an 30 judges and lawyers, “approximately half of that number —% a the Rot “eireult, ¢ © whic appointee had been nonineted” a. aa Pe int the remainder fron other parts of the country. Bohs a , interviews included Justices of the Supreme Court oft the * ae a: aes Ynited States, judges of the U. 5. Court of Appeals of five- be ‘3 . neat " @ifferent Circuits, judges of U. 5. District Courts, oy former ee ~: Sttorneys General of the United States, and two forme eputy ta sy Attorneys see of | the United Pipe ts ageing among th &