Word: benches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of frustration when Ronald Reagan passed him over for a Supreme Court nomination last year, choosing Antonin Scalia, Bork's close friend and former appellate-court colleague. Seeing that Bork was bored by much of the appeals-court work, friends suspected that he was ready to quit the bench. But that restlessness vanished abruptly last week when Robert Heron Bork, 60, finally was handed his long awaited opportunity...
...stunning San Francisco dawn, and Lawson has rejected an invitation to breakfast. "I do not like to do two pleasurable things at once, converse and eat. I find one gets in the way of the other. We'll find someplace outdoors to languish." In moments he secures a public bench not far from Union Square, and occupies it with a self- assurance that all but says aloud, "I am a taxpayer. This is mine...
...measure of an advanced civilization is how it treats its worst people, not its best," he says, rising from his bench. "Those who have the most reason to celebrate a Constitution are the poorest. The people in the BART ((Bay Area Rapid Transit)) station. That gentleman asleep on that bench over there." Then Lawson strides away, a man with a purpose...
...might be Powell's successor was not settled at week's end. Chief Justice William Rehnquist did not phone White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker to inform him of Powell's decision until 9:35 Friday morning, less than an hour before Rehnquist announced the news from the bench on the last day of the court's current term. Reagan and a few top aides immediately began discussing names. The two leading candidates were Robert Bork, a federal appeals-court judge in the District of Columbia, and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Reagan expressed a desire...
American Scene: "They can't do that," everyone in the U.S. enjoys saying. "It's against my constitutional rights." Profiles of three who believe in doing more than talking about the abstract principle. The Court: The charter means what the high bench says it means. In samples of their views, the Justices speak their minds...