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US
/ˈɹɛnˌkwɪst/
]
NOUN
- United States jurist who served as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1972 until 1986, when he was appointed chief justice (born in 1924)
How To Use Rehnquist In A Sentence
- ( "The word 'blench' came from Rehnquist," Bradley says. Rehnquist the Great?
- The members of the court are hand-picked by Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
- Finally, he will move away from the imperial chief justiceship established by his mentor Rehnquist and will rule the court with less of an iron hand. Alan Dershowitz: What I Have Learned From Listening to Judge Roberts
- The members of the court are hand-picked by Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
- One suspects that their ultimate target was Justice Rehnquist's dissent in Jaffree, and that their goal was to repair the damage to Everson's foundation.
- Indeed , it has been argued that broad delegations are not even necessarily undemocratic, as Rehnquist claimed.
- Rehnquist's disdain for drawn-out cases and pettifoggery by lawyers is legendary. A President In The Dock
- At that time, Rehnquist said the high number of vacancies was eroding the quality of justice associated with federal courts.
- There is, in fact, a firm bloc of three reactionaries - Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas - that supports the executive branch's arrogation of unprecedented police powers.
- For example, both Scalia and Rehnquist misused the word “hypothecate,” apparently confusing it with the near homonym “hypothesize,” which, admittedly, a dictionary or two will give as a secondary definition (in my view, this merely a reification of the sound-alike confusion and reflects the descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive) philosophy of the editor). Business, Law, Economics & Society