Word: unfitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people forced to come before him may have been appointed for life. If so, he can be fired only for gross misconduct. If he has been elected, it usually takes some sort of major scandal to unseat him. Is there no other way by which the honest but unfit judge can be removed from the bench when necessary...
...lifetime judges have plagued even the Supreme Court. In the 1920s the failing Justice Joseph McKenna once wrote an opinion stating the exact opposite of what all nine Justices, including himself, had voted to say. As for state courts, there have been many efforts to let bar groups monitor unfit judges and recommend removal. But what lawyer wants to bring charges against the very judge who may hear his next case...
Goldwater "Unfit...
...Statement of Principles" issued by the national committee asserts that "the 1964 Republican Convention did not represent the will of the majority of Republicans" and that "Sen. Goldwater is temperamentally unfit for the awesome duties of the President of the United States...
...vote of 1,189 to 657, the psychiatrists declared the Republican presidential candidate unfit for the office he seeks. Sample diagnoses: "His public utterances strongly suggest the megalomania of a paranoid personality" (Dr. Randolph Leigh Jr., Cincinnati); "a very mature person, mature enough to be a realist, and to adapt to the world as it is" (Dr. John P. McKenney, Imola, Calif.). Ginzburg could not help adding his own conclusions, along with a clutch of malevolent cartoons...