Word: benches
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...Watch my vice-presidential decision," Bush urged in a TIME interview three weeks ago. "That will tell all." To the Vice President, the selection of Quayle, 41, a blond, boyish, baby-boom, back-bench Senator from Indiana, represented a bold leap across generational boundaries. Bush, it seemed, had looked in the mirror and found what was most needed in the second-banana role that he had played for eight years: a younger version of himself. Quayle radiates the same bumptious enthusiasm, the same uncritical loyalty, the same palpable gratitude and the same malleable mind-set that Bush brought...
Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William Hogoboom, who is hearing the suits, is one of several hundred so-called rent-a-judges active across the nation. The judges, who are retired from the regular bench, preside for fees that usually range from $150 to $300 an hour. In many cases, they act merely as arbitrators or nonbinding mediators. But in California and in at least a dozen other states, they can also conduct proceedings -- like the Harper- Lorimar trial -- that have most of the trappings of regular court sessions, including depositions, witnesses and verdicts. The parties in the Harper...
Beyond their unhappiness with the Minnesota ruling, abortion-rights groups are even more concerned about the possibility of an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last December, before the newest Justice, Anthony M. Kennedy, joined the bench, the court split 4 to 4 in reviewing an Illinois law similar to Minnesota's notification statute. Though Kennedy's judicial career yields few clues to his view on abortion, prochoice groups fear that he will provide a fifth, and deciding, vote in favor of limiting the 1973 landmark abortion decision, Roe v. Wade...
...racially divided blue-collar suburb of New York City. Last week Leonard Sand, a soft-spoken, patient federal judge, got fed up with that city's refusal over three years to carry out his orders to place public housing in its white neighborhoods. Gazing down sternly from his bench in Manhattan at four Yonkers councilmen, the jurist delivered a tongue- lashing. "What we're clearly confronted with is a total breakdown of any sense of responsibility," he charged. "What we have here is a competition to see . . . who can be the biggest political martyr. There does have to come...
Only 500 or so blacks sit among the nearly 13,000 judges currently on the / bench nationwide. Many are found in states where judges are elected rather than appointed. "I never would have been a judge if I sat around waiting for someone to appoint me. I went out and got myself elected," says Justice Kenneth N. Browne, who was first elected to the New York Supreme Court in 1973 and is an outspoken advocate of the need for more black judges. "No judge is infallible. They all bring to their jobs their predilections and their experiences," says Browne. "There...