Word: benches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public classrooms across the state. The decision is another setback for Americans who want more teaching of moral values in the schools, but it comes at a time when there is growing governmental support for their position. As a result, constitutional scholars expect a major confrontation between the bench and the other two branches...
...consistency of the federal bench in prayer cases was demonstrated again last week when an appeals court rejected the arguments of a Guilderland, N.Y., group called Students for Voluntary Prayer. The high-schoolers had sought a classroom for informal prayer meetings before school, but had been turned down by officials. The refusal was justified, wrote Judge Irving Kaufman, in part because the students were free to say their prayers at other times and places...
...seemed to be living out an American dream. He had been serving for nine years as a federal district judge in Atlanta. The job offered challenge, prestige, a $40,000 salary and lifetime tenure followed by retirement at full pay. Yet that year Smith walked away from the bench to return to the private practice of law. The main reason: money. "I had one child in prep school and two in college, and I was borrowing all the time," recalls Smith, who now earns far more than he used to. "Inflation just started eating away...
...1970s, a record 24 federal district and circuit court judges (of more than 600) stepped out of their robes, compared with eight in the '60s and seven in the decade before that. The trend has brought warnings from the legal establishment that the nation's treasured federal bench is in danger of losing its luster. Observers fret not only about the increased number of departures but also about the erosion of morale among those who remain. An equally distressing, although incalculable effect is the possible decrease of top candidates for judicial openings...
...high-level federal officials and recommend adjustments to the President, who takes them into account in drafting his budget message. Richard Nixon's 1973 proposal for a 7.5% judicial increase went nowhere, but Gerald Ford had more success in 1977, when Congress approved 30% raises for the bench (but only 14% for Supreme Court Justices...