William Rehnquist
William Rehnquist
William Hubbs Rehnquistwas an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States for 33 years, first as an Associate Justice from 1972 to 1986, and then as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005. Considered a conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states. Under this view of federalism, the Supreme Court of the United States,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth1 October 1924
CityMilwaukee, WI
CountryUnited States of America
We strike down the floating buffer zones around people entering and leaving the clinics because they burden more speech than is necessary to serve the relevant government interests,
It's the thing in itself that justifies it.
a gentle dignity and an unfailing sense of purpose and sometimes a sense of humor.
an excellent administrator. No justice ever missed a deadline in the time he served.
Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.