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...that it had become a "significant part of the web of congressional and judicial efforts to rid the country of public and private discrimination." Surprisingly, when Manhattan attorney Roger Kaplan argued to overturn the ruling, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who had voted to rehear the case, asked from the bench, "Let's concede that ((Runyon)) is wrong. So what? What's special about this case to require us to go back and change our decision?" When Kaplan answered that the 1976 ruling "intruded on the operation of Congress," Scalia cut him off. "If that's all you have...
...Celtics need to get help from at least two guys on the bench," Heinsohn adds. "If they don't get that, then they'll be in the pack, they'll be fighting and they may not emerge...
...elevator with an armed security guard who had us file into the courtroom spectator seats. About 75 of us sat there. A side door opened and a young Black man, about 19, walked in with one white man and sat at one of the tables in front of the bench. He had a stony look on his face, and walked in staring at the floor...
...were impartial. He asked how many had been the victims of a robbery, or knew someone who had, how many knew the accused or had seen him before, how many knew the victims, and so on. After each question, anyone who raised their hand was called to the bench to explain to the judge why they might not be impartial. He would either excuse them or determine that it would not have bearing on the case at hand...
President Reagan, during his eight years in office, has appointed a huge number of conservative judges to the federal bench. Conservative judges on the district and appellate levels will likely support the executive in cases on foreign policy power. Likewise the Supreme Court, which will make the final decision. With three conservative Reagan appointees, the Court may already favor the presidential arguments over the congressional, and if a President Bush gets to appoint another conservative justice, it most certainly will...