interceder

The Supreme Court public affairs office didn’t respond to repeated requests to comment on what the rules say for when a Senate confirmation would be too late for a justice to intercede on any particular case pending before the court.

Shakespeare, with ever a keen eye for great men, makes the earl the interceder for Prince Arthur.

He was therefore one of the many developed forms of Tammuz--a solar, corn, and military deity, and an interceder for mankind.