Decades before they would serve together on the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor were engaged in a different type of courtship. The two grew close while attending ...

Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed. At his hearings, Rehnquist would later insist: “I believe that the memorandum was prepared by me as a statement of Justice Jackson’s tentative vie ...

Even as the justices explored whether there is an available middle ground, one that might make it possible to preserve precedent, it is all the more clear that Rehnquist's position is the stronger ...

On the final day of the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, the presiding officer—Chief Justice William Rehnquist—offered a surprising message for the U.S. Senate. What will Chief ...

So it is with the story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s. When 19-year-old Sandra Day entered Stanford Law ...

Rehnquist for having dissented in Roe vs. Wade and for rejecting the notion of “a wall of separation between church and state.” He also praised the late chief justice’s unsuccessful effort ...

Shortly after that, Nixon nominated Lewis Powell (approved 89-1) and William Rehnquist (approved 68-26, the most ‘no’ votes of any successful nominee since 1930). Rehnquist was opposed by a ...

“Chief?” Antonin Scalia inquired warily, as if waking from a dream. “Honestly, Nino,” William Rehnquist replied, “I think that here of all places you can call me Bill ...

By the time William Rehnquist took over as Chief Justice in 1986, Brown had overcome decades of Southern defiance to emerge as the crowning achievement of the Court. Roe and Miranda were another ...

Warren Burger, right, administers the oath to his successor as Supreme Court chief justice, William Rehnquist, at the White House in 1986 as President Ronald Reagan looks on. (Collection of the ...

Rehnquist’s health troubles late in life were well known, but Jenkins produces FBI documents to verify that the chief justice in the early 1980s was addicted to painkillers.

One of the most divisive and influential jurists in American history, Chief Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist served on the Supreme Court for more than a third of a century during a time of enormous ...