Gene Lyons says bye bye to "Justice Jim"

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Reading accounts of Tea Party patriots oiling their guns for the coming counter-revolution can’t help but remind Southerners of the 1950s and early 1960s, when demagogues like Justice Jim stoked fears of federal tyranny. Years later, he claimed to have hoaxed Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus into calling out the National Guard, supposedly to control white mobs determined to prevent the 1957 integration of Little Rock Central High, the shameful event seared into the memory of every Arkansan of Clinton’s generation.

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