Word: benching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clinton's nominee to the Supreme Court, emerged virtually untouched from four days of hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. While reassuring conservatives with her view that judges should avoid making policy from the bench, Ginsburg declined to state her position on the death penalty and other issues that might come before the court -- but she did take the unprecedented step of strongly endorsing abortion rights...
...concern for Ginsburg's "preference for measured or incremental movement of the law" and her "concept of gradualism in applying the Constitution's provisions." While casting Ginsburg's nomination in a positive light overall, Metzenbaum made plain his wariness of a Justice apt to compromise with conservative bench-warmers like Antonin Scalia, Thomas, and William Rehnquist...
Unpaid legal fees (impeachment from the federal bench...
With a new coach behind the bench this year for the Crimson, his position was all the more important...
...according to The Boston Globe, Breyer is the leading candidate for the next opening on the bench, which will likely come when Justice Byron R. White retires at the end of the summer...