250:. By 1999, however, they began feuding, and Brumskine fled the country after being threatened by Taylor's supporters. He returned to Liberia in 2003 with plans to run in the scheduled 2003 presidential election. However, Taylor's resignation that year and the installment of a two-year transitional government led to the elections being cancelled.
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Charles Brumskine was a legal luminary whose contributions to our justice system and political sphere will truly be missed. Words are inadequate to express how deeply saddened we all are; over
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