Rehnquist publicly defended the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court, the mass arrest of antiwar demonstrators on May Day (as part of a “‘qualified’ martial law”—his term), the use ...

WASHINGTON - The death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist leaves the Supreme Court without the leader of its rightward march, although his occasional flexibility preserved several critical judicial ...

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s illness portends his likely retirement in the near future and his replacement by an appointee of a confident and conservative Republican Party, perhaps to be ...

Will the chief justice of the United States, William H. Rehnquist, retire when the Supreme Court's term concludes at the end of this month? Rehnquist's advanced age, 80, and recent treatments for ...

WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST arrived at the Supreme Court in 1972 at the height of an era of aggressive judicial liberalism. By the time of his death Saturday, the court had become controversial as much for ...

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The death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has left the U.S. Supreme Court without a key voice of judicial restraint when it comes to matters involving colleges. Combined with Justice Sandra Day ...

Topics include the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and President Bush's decision, announced Monday, to nominate federal appellate judge John Roberts to succeed Rehnquist in the top post on ...

Superme Court Memo quotes lawyers who have appeared before Court and describe new tone under Chief Justice John Roberts, with lawyers getting more time to answer and justices not stepping on ...

When Chief Justice William Rehnquist helped decide the 2000 presidential election, his radical legal theory failed to gain a majority. But today’s conservative court is giving it another chance, in a ...

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist's death Sept. 3 was not unexpected. The talk among Washington's political class had been that the 80-year-old jurist, stricken by thyroid cancer, ...