Word: benching
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Zobel is infamous for never allowing lawyers to touch his judge’s bench, but also for decorating it with two vases of fresh flowers at opposite ends every...
Beyond the bench, Zobel has lent his expertise to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, testifying and advocating the use of cameras in the courtroom...
...first choice to his allies than to his antagonists. Democrats, who are locked in a pitched battle with the White House over lower-court nominations, would find it tough to block the first Hispanic nominee to the high court, who has a short and unrevealing record on the bench. They might give him a hard time as payback for his treatment of them while he was White House counsel, but a rejection would play badly with Hispanic voters, whom the Democrats are eager to court...
...More important, they point out, he's not a legal activist but a strict constructionist--one of the sacred judicial tenets of conservatives. "He was ruling on the existing statute, not legislating," a conservative Washington lawyer says of the Texas abortion ruling. "We've complained about legislating from the bench for years. We can't now start doing it ourselves." On affirmative action, top White House aides say Gonzales was not pushing his own views but finding the legal rationale for what the President believes, which is that race should be a factor in hiring but not the deciding...
...remove a bone chip from his knee, sat in the dugout yesterday in his uniform but no cleats. If Hendricks were in the lineup, Dukovich—who had an RBI single off Pauly along with his ninth-inning walk—would have been available on the bench in addition to Herrmann when Walsh needed a ninth-inning miracle...