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	CNN.com - Chief Justice Rehnquist has died - Sep 4, 2005
		Rehnquist had become increasingly frail after his cancer diagnosis last October, but his office had refused to characterize the seriousness of his illness.
		Bush are deeply saddened by the passing of the chief justice," according to a written statement.
		Rehnquist, who belonged to a loose, 5-4 conservative majority, was the second-oldest man to preside over the nation's highest court.
	www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/09/03/rehnquist.obit/index.html (777 words)

	William Rehnquist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nixon nominated Rehnquist to replace John Marshall Harlan II on the Supreme Court upon Harlan's retirement, and after being confirmed by the Senate by a 68-26 vote on December 10, 1971, Rehnquist took his seat as an Associate Justice on January 7, 1972.
		The costume that inspired Chief Justice Rehnquist, an acknowledged Gilbert and Sullivan fan, is worn by the Lord Chancellor, a character called upon to settle a dispute among a colony of fairies.
		Rehnquist was mentioned for many years as a possibility for the source known as Deep Throat during the 1970s Watergate scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Rehnquist (1496 words)

	Rehnquist Has Surgery For Cancer In Thyroid (washingtonpost.com)
		Rehnquist was appointed to the court by President Richard M. Nixon in 1972 and elevated to chief justice by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
		Rehnquist has been treated for skin cancer in the past, and he is far from the first member of the court to receive a cancer diagnosis.
		Rehnquist has had other health conditions, including recurrent back problems and a hospitalization in 1982 for what were described as withdrawal symptoms related to a reduction in the medication he had been taking for back pain.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A61114-2004Oct25.html (1019 words)

	Chief Justice Rehnquist dies - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rehnquist's weakening condition had been visible to court watchers for months, but his death came as a surprise to much of official Washington, since he had defied suggestions that he resign as recently as July.
		Rehnquist was a little-known Justice Department official when he was nominated to be an associate justice on the court by President Nixon in 1971.
		The Rehnquist Court was rarely as conservative as its chief, however, and legal scholars said it would be remembered mostly as a period of transition for the court -- neither strictly liberal nor conservative.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/04/chief_justice_rehnquist_dies (1071 words)

	USATODAY.com - Chief justice ill with cancer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rehnquist, 80, entered the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Friday and underwent a tracheotomy on Saturday "in connection with a recent diagnosis" of thyroid cancer, the statement said.
		The chief justice's illness, announced eight days before the presidential election, raised an issue that has been in the background during a campaign that has focused on national security and terrorism: The divided Supreme Court, whose membership hasn't changed in a decade, is likely to have at least one vacancy in the next presidential term.
		Rehnquist was named to the court in 1972 by President Nixon and was appointed chief justice in 1986 by President Reagan.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-10-25-rehnquist_x.htm (771 words)

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		When dissenting, Rehnquist has made his most telling points in opposition to the majority's efforts to enact "desirable" social policy with little support from the constitutional or statutory provisions they are supposed to be interpreting.
		During the 1987 term, Rehnquist also showed that he could be flexible, joining with the more liberal justices to subject the dismissal of a homosexual CIA agent to judicial review and to support the freedom of speech claims of Hustler magazine to direct off-color ridicule at a public figure.
		Rehnquist continues to be an effective manager whose humor and fairness have contributed to the cordial relations among the justices.
	www.supremecourthistory.org /myweb/justice/rehnquist.htm (1845 words)

	law.com - Article
		Rehnquist's voice was gravelly and at times difficult to hear, the result of a tracheotomy he had last fall to assist in breathing during his treatments for the cancer.
		Several of the other justices were smiling, as if to signal their pleasure at his return, but none made any special note of his presence.
		Rehnquist has been undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments for his cancer, though the Court has not issued any recent updates on the progress of his treatments.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1111412116915 (350 words)

	ABC News: Rehnquist Hospitalized With Cancer in Md. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The 80-year-old Rehnquist spent the weekend in Bethesda Naval Hospital in suburban Maryland, and underwent a tracheotomy on Saturday, the Supreme Court said Monday in a statement.
		Rehnquist, named to the court in 1972 by President Richard Nixon and elevated to chief justice by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, has had a series of health problems.
		Rehnquist quickly became known as the "lone ranger" among his more liberal colleagues at the time, writing stinging dissents in cases upholding abortion rights and busing to desegregate schools.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/wireStory?id=195999 (747 words)

	William Rehnquist
		After clerking for Justice Robert H. Jackson from February 1952 through the end of the October 1952 Term (June 1953), Rehnquist moved to Phoenix, Arizona to practice law in a law firm.
		Rehnquist was questioned at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings about a memorandum he had written for Justice Jackson in 1952 concerning the then-pending case of Brown v.
		His testimony was disputed by others (but supported privately by Justice William O. Douglas, the only member of the Court in 1971 who was on the Court in 1952), but the flap subsided, and Rehnquist was confirmed by a vote of 68-26.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/rehnquist.htm (673 words)

	Benched? - What Chief Justice Rehnquist's cancer means for the election. By Dahlia Lithwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		An 80-year-old justice who has served on the high court for 32 yearsâ”and who has almost single-handedly reshaped whole areas of jurisprudenceâ”is seriously ill. On a 5-4 court, that could be a big deal.
		Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are both famous at the court for having powered through the court term, undaunted by their own cancer battles.
		This is why a Rehnquist retirement would mean so much were Kerry to be elected: With the appointment of a liberal or even a moderate replacement, the 5-4 balance on the court would tip dramatically.
	slate.msn.com /id/2108645 (618 words)

	Chief Justice Rehnquist treated for thyroid cancer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The statement said Rehnquist underwent a tracheotomy on Saturday at Bethesda Naval Hospital "in connection with a diagnosis of thyroid cancer." The statement did not specify the type of thyroid cancer, and a court spokeswoman could not say whether Rehnquist would be able to ask questions at Monday's arguments.
		Rehnquist's age -- he turned 80 on Oct. 1 -- and the lack of details about the severity of his condition intensified election-year speculation about whom a re-elected President Bush or a newly elected President John F. Kerry might nominate to succeed Rehnquist, a pillar of the court's conservative wing.
		Rehnquist, a former assistant U.S. attorney general with impressive academic credentials, was nominated to the court in 1971 by Richard Nixon and elevated to chief justice in 1986 by Ronald Reagan after stormy Senate confirmation hearings.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04300/401797.stm (631 words)

	Rehnquist's Sorry Record on Racism
		Nomination of William H. Rehnquist, of Virginia to be Chief Justice of the United States.
		Justice Rehnquist wrote a proposed constitutional amendment designed to limit the enforcement of Brown v.
		Justice Rehnquist, then President Nixon’s Assistant Attorney General, wrote the memos in March 1970.
	www.geocities.com /justice_watch/rehnquist_information.html (1202 words)

	JUSTICE WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST’S ABUSE OF HISTORY by Gene Garman
		If Justice Rehnquist is going to use the record of history as a means for establishing his position, he should at least be honest and accurate in his use of history, including the unanimous opinions expressed in Reynolds and Everson.
		Justice Rehnquist does not point out that this committee rejected all of the variously worded proposals which had been offered previously on the floor of the House, and in the Senate, including Justice Rehnquist's preference for the word "national" prior to religion.
		Justice Rehnquist's omission of this significant part of the historical record is an unacceptable abuse of history.
	www.sunnetworks.net /~ggarman/renabuse.html (1783 words)

	Remarks by William H. Rehnquist - June 4, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When he became Chief Justice in 1801, the Supreme Court of the United States was very much like other courts of last resort, finally deciding cases between litigants but otherwise contributing very little to the manner in which the country was governed.
		Justice Miller wrote for a majority of five giving the Fourteenth Amendment a narrow construction, and saying that it was doubtful that it would have any application to individuals other than the newly freed slaves.
		Justice Field wrote in dissent that if this were so it was "a vain and idle enactment" which accomplished nothing.
	www.supremecourtus.gov /publicinfo/speeches/sp_06-04-01.html (9384 words)

	Talk About Your Overrated Job - Why would anybody want to be chief justice? By Dahlia Lithwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rehnquist is fond of saying that the chief only has one vote and no one listens to him anyhow.
		The formal powers of the chief justice don't sound all that enticing: He or she is essentially like a glorified Alice on the Brady Bunch â”getting to do all the administrative grunt work with which no one else would possibly want to be bothered.
		This is how Rehnquist has made such a significant impression on the court: not with eloquent opinions (his opinions tend to be short and workmanlike) or obsessive professorial absorption in the nuance of the law.
	slate.msn.com /id/2109807 (1288 words)

	The Justices of the Supreme Court
		William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1, 1924.
		Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, was born August 15, 1938, in San Francisco, California, the son of Irving G. Breyer and Anne R. Breyer.
		Justice Breyer served as clerk to the Honorable Arthur J. Goldberg, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, during the 1964-1965 term.
	www.usscplus.com /info/justices.htm (1556 words)

	John G. Roberts, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		From 1980 to 1981, he was a law clerk to then-Associate Justice William Rehnquist on the Supreme Court.
		Justice Holmes described assessing the constitutionality of an act of Congress as the gravest duty that the Supreme Court is called upon to perform...[I]tâs a principle that is easily stated and needs to be observed in practice, as well as in theory.
		"Report of the Alliance for Justice: Opposition to the Confirmation of John G. Roberts to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit." Alliance for Justice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_G._Roberts_Jr. (3263 words)

	FindLaw Constitutional Law Center: Supreme Court: Justices: William Rehnquist
		Nominated Chief Justice of the United States by President Reagan on June 17, 1986; affirmed by a 65-33 Senate vote on September 25, 1986 and sworn in on September 26, 1986.
		As Chief Justice, Rehnquist serves as Chairman of the Judicial Conference of the United States and as Chairman of the Federal Judicial Center.
		William Hubbs Rehnquist was born October 1, 1924, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of William Benjamin Rehnquist, a paper salesman, and Margery Peck Rehnquist.
	supreme.lp.findlaw.com /supreme_court/justices/rehnquist.html (689 words)

	Did William Rehnquist Embrace Plessy v Ferguson?
		Brown vs. Board of Education changed all that, with all nine justices agreeing that enforced separation was, in fact, "inherently unequal." In the years that followed, the court, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, struck down segregation everywhere.
		Rehnquist's memo concluded that the court should uphold segregation and refuse to protect "special claims" merely "because its members individually are 'liberals' and dislike segregation."
		Testifying before the Senate in 1971, the year he was nominated to the court, Rehnquist said the memo "was prepared by me at Justice Jackson's request; it was intended as a rough draft of a statement of his views...
	hnn.us /roundup/comments/5277.html (727 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Rehnquist in hospital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chief Justice William Rehnquist is being treated for thyroid cancer at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
		Rehnquist, 80, underwent a tracheotomy Saturday, according to a Supreme Court statement released today.
		Rehnquist was named to the court in 1972 by President Richard Nixon.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41083 (233 words)

	CNN.com - Rehnquist has thyroid cancer surgery - Oct 25, 2004
		Rehnquist believes the only rights protected by the Constitution are those specifically named, and that judges should consider the framers' original intent when making their rulings.
		Rehnquist is also a strong supporter of states' rights, believing that matters that can be handled by states should be left to them.
		Rehnquist told an interviewer in 2001 that "traditionally, Republican appointees have tended to retire during Republican administrations." He would not expand on that thought, but it suggested a political realization that presidents should be allowed to replace one justice with another of similar ideology.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/10/25/rehnquist/index.html (1086 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| A law unto itself?
		The court is a central pillar of the American system of government and Justice O'Connor was the swing voter in the often deeply divided nine-judge court.
		It was her vote that stopped the Florida recount in the 2000 presidential election, thus handing the White House to Mr Bush.
		Justice Scalia, in particular, seeks to cut the US off entirely from the 21st-century global legal conversation.
	www.guardian.co.uk /leaders/story/0,3604,1532991,00.html (568 words)

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		Born October 1, 1924, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of William Benjamin Rehnquist and Margery Peck Rehnquist.
		Nominated Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Nixon on October 21, 1971; sworn in on January 7, 1972.
		Nominated Chief Justice of the United States by President Reagan on June 17, 1986; sworn in on September 26, 1986.
	straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/justices/rehnquist.bio.html (200 words)

	Justice Rehnquist, 79, eyes retiring - Politics - MSNBC.com
		Rehnquist refused to weigh in directly on the controversy over Justice Antonin Scaliaâs duck-hunting trip with Vice President Dick Cheney while the court was considering Cheneyâs appeal in a dispute over private meetings to develop energy policy.
		Rehnquist is not the oldest member of the court, and heâs not even close to setting a record for longevity.
		Justice John Paul Stevens turns 84 next month and despite his age is a spry bridge player and golfer.
	msnbc.msn.com /ID/4490885 (715 words)

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