Word: bench
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to be a judge out of love for ourliberty, our laws and our constitution," Friedsaid in his opening remarks on Tuesday, accordingto the Boston Globe. He pledged that he would cometo the bench "with no project, no agenda--only tolisten to the arguments in each case as it comesbefore...
This crawling position has been a frequent one this summer. One evening, a friend and I set out for the park. Certainly, I thought, a park would offer no hurdles, necessarily being on the ground floor and having no obstacles but the grass and a bench. However, when we arrived I noticed that it was also roped off--this time by thick wire at about mid-thigh. While I remember being lifted over this boundary as a small child, as I got older, I had not even noticed hopping over it on the way into the park. Now, in another...
...contrast, this was the year in which Thomas boldly marked off ground at the furthest-right end of the bench, so far that even the two-fisted Scalia generally did not join him there. Yet sometimes he could bring along part of the court. In the term-limits case, his separate opinion reflected the conservative fascination with the 10th Amendment, which reserves to the states all power not specifically delegated to the Federal Government. Accordingly, Thomas suggested that the U.S. government exists only to the extent the states permit it. Rehnquist, O'Connor and Scalia signed on. How much further...
...oppress minorities to affirmative-action measures seeking to assist them, are conflated into one morally and legally pernicious whole. He delights in gratuitously tongue-lashing the majority of blacks who disagree with him on almost every civil rights issue. He heaps scorn on federal judges who have used the bench to enforce and expand civil rights, accusing them of a paternalistic belief in black inferiority. His harshest critics, like Wade Henderson, Washington director of the N.A.A.C.P., even speculate that "if Thomas had been on the court at the time, he would have opposed the decision in Brown v. Board...
...dozen men held inside, their hands shackled behind them, were arrested over the weekend and are awaiting arraignment; new detainees are herded in and out all day. In the midst of this noise and mayhem, some of the accused meet their lawyers for the last time before approaching the bench and confer hastily through the metal mesh about their pleas. Though the state affiliate of the A.C.L.U. has brought a class action against Connecticut's indigent-defense system, citing the Cage as one of many degrading and prejudicial conditions in the state, lawyers and defendants alike are accustomed...