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

 

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.


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Our defense was much better. We just got outmanned. They were much bigger than us. We got pounded on the boards.

Thomas Baker

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

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

His first priority is to gain the respect and confidence and trust of his colleagues.

Thomas Baker

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