Senators last week made a determined effort to keep the U. S. Judiciary pure. To the impeachment case of Judge Halsted L. Ritter of Florida, they gave their weightiest deliberation because they did not wish to be accused again, as they were in 1933, of acquitting an impeached judge because they were too lazy to listen to the evidence. Besides, the case against Judge Ritter had been presented with liveliness and ability by large, agile Representative Sam Hobbs of Selma, Ala., one of the three House prosecutors (TIME, March 16; April 20). Thus...
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