Word: restraint
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Tackling Rameau is a formidable task; like Havana cigars and Scotch whisky, the French baroque is an acquired taste. The operas of Rameau, Jean-Baptiste Lully and others who flourished in the late 17th and 18th centuries are subtly alluring, yet their convoluted plots, emotional restraint and refined aesthetic make them remote to modern audiences...
...This is the end of an era and the beginning of a new one," exulted Dan Popeo, general counsel of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation. "Judicial restraint is going to be fashionable." Liberals were downcast. The nominations of Rehnquist and Scalia "signal an effort by the President to impose his own narrow ideological views onto the Supreme Court," protested Julius Chambers, director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund...
Rehnquist holds himself out as an apostle of judicial restraint. Federal judges, he asserts, should not impose their personal views on the law or stray beyond the intent of the framers by reading broad meaning into the Constitution. Yet judicial restraint has another meaning: judges are also supposed to respect stare decisis, the established precedent handed down by past judges. Rehnquist has been less respectful of Supreme Court precedent, especially the decisions of the liberal Warren Court. His critics sometimes accuse him of disingenuously twisting history to fit his own views. "Don't forget, Rehnquist is a radical," says Columbia...
...power. Scalia was the probable author of the unsigned opinion striking down a key provision of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget-balancing law on the ground that the Comptroller General, responsible for implementing its trigger mechanism, is not under the executive branch of Government. An unwavering apostle of judicial restraint, he may give pause to conservatives seeking a more activist judicial agenda. As he wrote last year: conservatives "must decide whether they really believe . . . that the courts are doing too much, or whether they are actually nursing only the less principled grievance that the courts have not been doing what...
Those favoring Reagan's conservative philosophy of greater judicial restraint say Scalia will be a scholarly and persuasive proponent of their cause. Although opposed to their classmate's judicial views, self-proclaimed liberals express relief that he was picked by Reagan...