Rehnquist


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United States jurist who served as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1972 until 1986, when he was appointed chief justice (born in 1924)

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moved Rehnquist to write Hibbs, but, in the end, my object is less to
Jaffree, Rehnquist, then an associate justice, decided to cut loose.
Hargan, and the Rehnquist speech as focal points for anti-abortion activists who back President Donald Trump's nominee and for abortion rights advocates who say Kavanaugh has provided ample clues to justify their worst fears.
That brings me to my primary topic today: William Hubbs Rehnquist. William Rehnquist served on the Supreme Court for 33 years, from 1972 until his death in September 2005.
Even though Rehnquist had appeared to be a threat to Sullivan, he ended up expanding it in an important decision involving parody: Hustler Magazine v.
First, I identify what is useful in The Partisan-, information, some new, some helpful elaborations of what was already known, which helps us better understand Chief Justice Rehnquist, the private man and the public jurist.
A judicial withdrawal from enforcing the original limits on the powers of Congress would undo the New Federalist legacy of William Rehnquist. (2) Then there was this comment on President Bush's choice to fill Justice O'Connor's seat on the Court (for which then-Judge Alito was eventually selected):
Today, with five conservative justices on the Supreme Court and originalism as the starting point even for liberals' discussion of the Constitution, it may be difficult to conjure the legal world at the time of Rehnquist's appointment to the court by Richard Nixon in 1972.
In the short period that has passed since the departures of Chief Justice Rehnquist and Associate Justice O'Connor, conflicting "conventional wisdoms" have evolved about their roles on the Supreme Court and their legacies.
The author, a writer and editor, professes a responsibility to write a revealing personal account of Chief Justice William Rehnquist based upon impressions drawn from a 19-year personal friendship with the highest ranking American judicial officer.
Death justice; Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and the contradictions of the death penalty.
There is a good chance that the former attorney--James Rehnquist, son of the late U.S.
Selected as a best book of the year by Time, Newsweek and the like, this book about recent Supreme Court Justices (Rehnquist, Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter, Thomas, Kennedy, Scalia, O'Connor, Stevens, Alito, and Roberts) falls somewhere between scholarly and popular.
Finally, there is the relationship between Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who died in 2005, and Antonin Scalia, who remains on the Court after 21 years.
Rosen's point is that the Court's most successful jurists--he spotlights John Marshall, John Harlan, Hugo Black, and William Rehnquist, and tips his hat to several others--have the same temperamental strengths that one looks for in high-performing kindergarteners.