They're not likely to revisit this soon. Particularly since the outgoing justices, (William) Rehnquist and (Sandra Day) O'Connor, were in the dissent. The changing of personnel is not going to have any effect on this one.
Michael Ramsey
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As our country grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Constitution Day offers young people an opportunity to learn how a cornerstone of our democracy -- the concept of federalism -- shapes our lives.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
When the history of the Rehnquist court is written, it will be about a justice who moved the court in a conservative direction, but in a way that did not tear the court apart.
David Yalof
With the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist and the tragedy of Katrina that view is even more salient now.
Margie Mchugh
With this action, in one fell swoop, the president deprived himself and his supporters of the easiest argument for his next nominee: that surely a reelected conservative president is entitled to replace a conservative justice — Rehnquist — with another conservative.
Bill Kristol
Ideology aside, it's going to be difficult to run the court any better than he did. We will look back on the Rehnquist court as one of the smoothest in the court's history.
A. E. Dick Howard
The O'Connor retirement was more important. Replacing Rehnquist with Rehnquist junior means that the court runs in place.
Scott Moss
His term coincided with a huge Republican realignment, and he reaped the benefit of it. The time was right for Rehnquist. The politics came into alignment with him.
Barry Friedman
You've got this mixed verdict. Jewish groups have been able to operate better in terms of establishment clause constraints, but the harm that the Rehnquist court has done to the free exercise clause is enormous.
Jonathan Lewin
It sounds like something Rehnquist would have written. William Rehnquist didn't believe there is a right to privacy either.
Jack Balkin
The other irony is that Roberts is a lifelong advocate of federalism and states' rights. Like his mentor, Rehnquist, he has a narrow view of the commerce clause.
Jonathan Turley
The highest points I give Rehnquist is for his sense of long-term judicial strategy.
Jonathan Turley
It is quite clear that there are three dominant chief justices of American history, and they are John Marshall, Earl Warren, and William H. Rehnquist, ... I think that there's just no question that he's of enormous historical importance.
Walter Dellinger
Rehnquist really was treated unfairly, ... A person is a career, not a moment.
Cass R. Sunstein
It's hard to imagine a choice more similar to Chief Justice Rehnquist than John Roberts. They both love the law and they both are among a handful of the most intellectually accomplished legal minds.
Walter Dellinger
He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Rehnquist you [saw] now. He [was] very grounded.
David Leitch
He could use the stripes out of respect for Chief Justice Rehnquist. He could also not use the stripes out of respect for Rehnquist.
Thomas Baker
That's where Rehnquist was at his most vocal, ... He was always willing to fight for an independent judiciary.
Carl W. Tobias
It will be an extraordinary moment in the first confidential conference when a legendary figure like William Rehnquist is replaced at the head of the table by someone so junior. But John Roberts is one of the few people who would be up to that challenge.
Walter Dellinger
There was some promise of a Rehnquist court revolution, and that hasn't happened. I think we were too quick to say that this was the conservative Republican answer to the Warren court.
Thomas Baker
This term may be the end of the Rehnquist Court era.
David O'brien
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
Ralph Neas
Even if you appoint someone who is identical to Rehnquist in every respect, you're talking about someone who is about 50 rather than 80.
Richard Lazarus
Chief Justice (William) Rehnquist was brilliant at enhancing that position, and Congress has played a major role in adding to the authority of the chief justice. In many respects, Rehnquist changed the job, so that its breadth is greater than it has ever been before.
Judith Resnik
William H. Rehnquist is by nature quiet and humble. His legacy is that he has shown us how to disagree with civility.
Douglas W. Kmiec
In Burger's heyday they were deciding 150 cases a year -- so many that they were talking about creating an intermediate appellate court to handle some of the load. Rehnquist comes in, and with the platform of being chief justice, all that disappears, to the point where the Court is being criticized for taking too few cases.
Thomas Baker
A hundred years from now, Rehnquist will be looked on as a chief justice who was consistently conservative and was fairly influential on the court in pressing for his point of view.
Peter Irons
You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.
Erwin Chemerinsky
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