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The judges, their clerks, librarians, secretaries and the accused will be moving into the gleaming new federal courthouse on President William McKinley Circle in several weeks. To set the proper historical background, we'll name Niagara Square for the assassinated Republican president whose memorial obelisk is perched in the center.
To date, the congressman whose honor it is to name the place, Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, has not filed the needed legislation. This may be because what was once an ambivalence about the courthouse name has been nudged into an indecision, yes, a controversy by a law professor at St. John's University on Long Island, John Q. Barrett.See the full content of this document
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Controversy Crops Up in Courthouse Naming
Barrett is the biographer and the champion of the late Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, who was chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremburg trials of ...
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