Rehnquist
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As president a decade later, Reagan had appointed Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court and elevated William Rehnquist to be the chief justice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
It wasn’t the Warren court; it was the Rehnquist court, and yet look what happened.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026
The Burger and Rehnquist courts reached liberal outcomes about half the time.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
A famous example is the brief from an editorial cartoonists’ group that helped persuade Chief Justice William Rehnquist to side with Hustler magazine over televangelist Jerry Falwell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Rehnquist warned Bradlee to cease publishing the Pentagon Papers.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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