Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeals judge, Scalia has been almost gratuitously antipress. He dissented from an opinion by his rival for the high court, Judge Bork, that threw out a suit by Bertell Ollman, a New York University professor who had been vilified as a Marxist by Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. Bork held that the column was merely opinion and thus protected speech; Scalia argued that it was "a coolly crafted libel." In his 100-page dissent, Scalia wondered why columnists, "even with full knowledge of the falsity or recklessness of what they say, should be able to destroy private reputations...
Unlike some of his colleagues who agonize over each opinion and stagger under the court's case load, Rehnquist is known for quickness and efficiency. On most days he leaves the court at 3 p.m. to go swimming. He finds time for stamp collecting and oil painting (indeed, he skipped the President's State of the Union speech last February to go to his painting class in Arlington, Va.). He once even tried his hand at writing a novel about the intrigues of a federal appeals court in the Southwest (it was rejected by several publishers). At times Rehnquist...
...Chief Justice has only one real institutional prerogative. When he is in the majority, he can assign the task of writing the opinion. If he is in the minority, then the most senior Justice in the majority assigns the opinion. The opinion-assigning power is important, particularly when the court is narrowly divided, because the Justice who writes the court's opinion can set the terms of the debate. Burger repeatedly irked his colleagues by changing his vote to remain in the majority, and by rewarding his friends with choice assignments and punishing his foes with dreary ones. "Rehnquist...
...radio stations, 941 commercial TV stations and 300 public TV stations. Every kind of subject, from sex to childbirth, from economics to how to build a house, from politics to gardening to baseball to Lyndon LaRouche, is printed and aired and ventilated. This almost preposterous tide of information and opinion is not censored or jammed. American book publishers offer some 50,000 titles every year. One can have all of Shakespeare in paperback for a few dollars--or for the same price can go to see the revenge fantasies of Sylvester Stallone...
Panelists supported Secretary of State George P. Schultz's opinion that proposed cuts in the foreign affairs budget could hurt U.S. foreign aid efforts...