11.   He had no fear of defying the majority on the high bench in matters large and small.

12.   He was duly confirmed for the high bench.

13.   High bench appointees often serve in their guaranteed-for-life posts well beyond the term of the president who named them.

14.   In any case, the high bench is a notorious hotbed of paper-shuffling, not a Clinton specialty.

15.   It was a classic conflict of rights, and the high bench made the wrong pick.

16.   One by one, the high bench has struck them down.

17.   That is the period when the high bench allows most state efforts to limit abortions.

18.   That bias was unreasonable, and the high bench should put the civil rights of vulnerable minorities ahead of state rights.

19.   The high bench is in grave danger, however, of toppling into the partisan cesspool that infects the rest of official Washington.

20.   The high bench looked on this case with more bemused tolerance than it has displayed in its handling of most past nudity issues.