Word: benches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...career agree that his hallmark is conservatism in a quite different sense: he avoids propounding sweeping doctrines of how to interpret the Constitution. Instead, he often decides cases on the narrowest possible grounds. Says Alex Kozinski, a former Kennedy clerk and now a colleague on the Ninth Circuit bench: "Judge Bork is an academician. He has an overall theory of the law and the Constitution, and he tries to fit cases into that theory. Tony Kennedy is much more in the mold of Lewis Powell. He is a conservative and an advocate of judicial restraint, but these are simply overall...
Like most of his senior cohorts, Barringer saw little playing time during his sophomore and junior years. He spent his game days on the bench, watching, waiting...
...when it came tournament time, Harvard hit the floor with the confidence of a winner, making diving saves to keep rallies alive, fighting for every point. Bench players cheered on their teammates and entertained the 200 fans with their own version of "The Wave." When Harvard took a set, the players rushed the court to congratulate the victors...
...With the bench screaming, the Crimson fought back to take the next two sets...
...been all smiles as he ushered Douglas Ginsburg into the East Room of the White House to the applause and cheers of supporters. True, the former Harvard professor was, at 41, unusually young to be nominated to the Supreme Court and, with only a year on the federal bench, somewhat inexperienced. But the candidate for Associate Justice was, the President declared, "a man who believes profoundly in the rule...