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The Rehnquist Court was the period in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States during which William Rehnquist served as Chief Justice.Rehnquist succeeded Warren E. Burger as Chief Justice after the latter's retirement, and Rehnquist held this position until his death in 2005, at which point John Roberts was nominated and confirmed as Rehnquist's replacement.
Rehnquist Court decisions This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Rehnquist Court , the tenure of Chief Justice William Rehnquist from September 26, 1986, through September 3, 2005.
One of the Rehnquist Court's major developments involved reinforcing and extending the doctrine of sovereign immunity, [91] which limits the ability of Congress to subject non-consenting states to lawsuits by individual citizens seeking money damages. In both Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents (2000) and Board of Trustees of the University of ...
It includes United States Supreme Court cases that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Cases of the Supreme Court of the United States decided by the Rehnquist Court , the period during the tenure of Chief Justice William Rehnquist (1986–2005).
The Rehnquist Court era, under the leadership of William Rehnquist, lasted from September 26, 1986 to September 3, 2005. Rehnquist had been an associate Supreme Court justice for 14 years, 285 days at the time of his appointment as chief justice; 14 justices served during this court.
The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-0-8090-8074-8. Stern, Seth, and Stephen Wermiel. Justice Brennan: liberal champion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 674 pages; detailed scholarly biography; Tushnet, Mark (2005). A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law.
Wade that the federal constitution included protections for abortion, that decision was reached after two rounds of oral arguments to account for new justices William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F ...
Rehnquist led a remarkably stable Court. For the eleven years following when Stephen Breyer took the oath in 1994, to Rehnquist's death in 2005, the composition of the Court remained unchanged – the longest such stretch in over 180 years. [20] Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul Stevens led the Court's liberal bloc during this era.