Word: election
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series had appeared to turn on McNamara's calm deployment of his starting pitchers; once he was behind 0-2, Davey Johnson had less opportunity to be serene. But even with a full parcel of rest against worn Third-Game Winner Bob Ojeda, Cy Young-elect Roger Clemens' near best was just not quite enough. Darling could test his dream one final time against Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd. Dave Henderson and Lenny Dykstra, Boston's and New York's respective symbols of play-off miracles, kept it up through six games, until Hurst began sending Dykstra back to earth swinging...
What is objectionable is not that the Right seeks power, but that it seeks it in and through the Supreme Court. All political groups and interests have a right to advocate a political agenda, elect candidates, and attempt to change government policy. The judiciary, however, is not the place for a coup d'etat...
Along with heightened democracy comes demagoguery, and right-wingers are exploiting California's very democratic election laws in order to increase their own power. Unlike the federal government, California and most other states require their Supreme Court Justices periodically to stand for approval by the voters. This year, not only will the people elect a governor, a senator, and 45 congressmen, but they will also decide the fate of six of the state's seven Supreme Court Justices...
...people in order to garner votes, California--and most other states, for that matter--violates one of the most crucial tenets of American constitutionalism. For the judiciary to check and restrain the other two branches of government, judges must be free from the pressures of electoral politics. To elect judges--and thereby force them to be responsive to the whims of the electorate--is to sacrifice long-term justice to the political trends of the moment...
Californians should vote to re-elect every Justice on the Court, and all states which currently elect their Supreme Court Justices should amend their constitutions and grant them life tenure. Justice is too important to be subject to the whims of the majority...