Another former judge who served on the court, James G. Carr, has proposed that the judges themselves could appoint independent lawyers as special counsels on a case-by-case basis.
In a hearing on the ruling, the League of Women Voters and a retired associate justice proposed that recusal be triggered if a judge had received a contribution of more than $1,000 from a single source.
Kagan laid out a road map for future challenges, including under a test Kennedy has proposed: that partisan redistricting schemes might be judged as punishment for voters because of their past political allegiances, which would violate the First Amendment.
Specifically, Mr. Bush proposed that the Senate vote on judges within 180 days of their nominations and that judges notify the White House of their plans to retire at least a year in advance.
In July, a panel appointed by New York State's Chief Judge, Sol Wachtler, proposed that the state's 88,000 practicing lawyers be required to donate at least 20 hours a year to public service.
The government proposed two weeks ago that the judge break Microsoft in two -- creating a company that sells an operating system and a separate company to sell word processors, browsers and other application programs.
Finally two graphical strategies are proposed that allow judging the goodness of fit of the proposed model in absolute terms.
Set against the prosecution's extensive evidence, Schumer proposes that the jury and judge move against a conviction in the sketch because otherwise it will make them feel bad.
On Thursday, the plaintiffs in the case, the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay organization, proposed that Judge Phillips keep Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others from enforcing the statute or applying the policy and suspend any pending investigations or discharges.
