Chief Justice John Roberts often laments that he has limited clout as he deals with his eight Supreme Court colleagues. “You can’t fire people if they don’t follow you. You can’t cut their pay,” he ...

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Rehnquist’s vaunted federalism revolution had already remade American government by the time Roberts took over; two decades later, Roe, affirmative action, and the Voting Rights Act lie in ruins.

The questions are sure to be sharp, but at least he can take solace in the fact that his mentor, and the man whom he seeks to replace, the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, endured two ...

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Unlike Rehnquist and Roberts, Chase had political experience before going on the bench: he was a former U.S. senator and U.S. Treasury secretary in the Lincoln cabinet.

Rehnquist had been the court’s lone true conservative for many years, and Kavanaugh said he felt much the same at Yale. “His opinions made a lot of sense to me.

Rehnquist’s memo, entitled “A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases,” defended the separate-but-equal doctrine embodied in the 1896 Supreme Court case of Plessy v.