Word: judgeships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some months ago, he made a deal which he believed was in the best interests of his constituents. He got the White House to support a liberal activist Seattle lawyer for a federal judgeship in return for his support of a White House backed judicial candidate of questionable qualifications who would serve in a different part of the country...
...appointment, President Reagan assured a political rally in Miami last week, had come from a "little lynch mob." Some "little lynch mob": half the U.S. Senate, backed by a phalanx of other politicians and legal scholars, all opposing the President's nomination of Archconservative Daniel Manion to a federal judgeship. The final vote of the Senators was 49 to 49. The roll call came on the question of whether to reconsider an earlier vote, one that would have been 47 to 47 but tipped 48 to 46 for confirmation only because the rules forced Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd...
...viable' fetus is a human being." The eight-page letter was sent by three conservative Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee--Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, Orrin Hatch of Utah and John East of North Carolina--to Joseph Rodriguez, a Democrat nominated by Reagan for a New Jersey federal judgeship...
...will in a matter of years be able to afford cars and clothes and things of materialistic value, but what about your values? As doctors, you must choose public health over private wealth. As lawyers you must choose the pursuit of justice over the political pursuit of judgeship. As teachers, you must teach for life, not just for a living. Our values will determine our value. You must measure your character, not by the size of your car, but rather by who you will give a ride who has lost his of her way. You must choose fairness over fashions...
Undeterred, the new editor hired young, iconoclastic writers whom he called "my city-room Weathermen," hailed the counterculture and turned the paper vehemently against the Viet Nam War. The Globe won its first Pulitzer Prize the year after he took over, for probing the credentials of a federal-judgeship nominee who was a Kennedy family retainer; it has since won ten more, the majority for reports on such issues as race relations and arms control. During Winship's tenure, circulation jumped about 40%, to 520,000 daily and 793,000 (eighth in the U.S.) on Sunday. Last week this...