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Citing numerous instances of professional misconduct, the State Bar of Texas this month suspended local civil rights attorney James Myart Jr., a once acid-tongued critic of law enforcement who in recent months has fallen conspicuously silent. The three-year suspension, beginning May 1, will commence about three weeks before Myart, 54, is scheduled to face trial in state district court on an unrelated charge of aggravated perjury. On Oct. 31, he'll be placed on probation for 30 months. Myart agreed April 1 to the judgment, which marks the fourth time in less than a decade that the association has sanctioned the...

Rep. Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia congresswoman whose altercation with a Capitol Hill police officer last month made national headlines, qualified to run for re-election Monday -- and quickly drew a well-known challenger in July's Democratic primary. Hank Johnson, an attorney and two-term member of the DeKalb County Commission, qualified to challenge McKinney in Georgia's 4th District, a majority black and solidly Democratic district on the eastern side of metropolitan Atlanta. Meanwhile, James Myart, a prominent Texas civil rights attorney whom McKinney retained after her altercation with the police officer, issued a statement Monday saying he no longer represented her. He...