Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mildred, 70, a widow living in northern Georgia, fears that reporting the $30 a week she earns baby-sitting will mean the loss of her Social Security benefits. Says she: "If I'm a criminal, then I guess that's what I am. But I don't see what good it would do for me to starve...
Noting that he lost two labelle (5-4) bouts, Merner said "I missed second slot by two touches. On the other hand, I also won five labelle bouts, and if I'd lost any of those I wouldn't he All-American. You can always second guess yourself after the fact...
...lays it out. He dismisses the notion that judges should ever consider the merits of legislation, unwise as it may seem. The reason: judicial interventionism subverts the democratic process, and the values that judges often invoke to strike down legislation are often less than widely shared. "I guess the background principle is, 'Don't second-guess the legislature," Ely explains...
Under his scheme, "The Court can do a lot of leading--but only in purifying and opening up the political process. For the ultimate role of judges, as Ely saw it, was "not to second-guess the merits of what the political branches have done, but rather to see if it was done fairly." Simple and appealing...
...considers himself a political liberal; his colleagues guess his voting record would show him to be a mainstream Democrat. The irony, to his critics, is that judges who adopt Ely's "selective activism" could undermine traditionally liberal ideas. Ely does not disagree--but to him, having judges as "an elite with a final word" outweighs the danger of having unwise legislation...