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William Hubbs Rehnquist [a] (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American attorney who served as the 16th chief justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005, having previously been an associate justice from 1972 to 1986.
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.
rights of the successor of a copyright interest Grady v. Corbin: 495 U.S. 508 (1990) double jeopardy and subsequent prosecutions Taylor v. United States: 495 U.S. 575 (1990) definition of "burglary" under certain sentence enhancement provisions of the federal criminal code Burnham v. Superior Court of California: 495 U.S. 604 (1990)
The Burger Court ended on September 26, 1986, when Chief Justice Burger retired. He was succeeded as Chief Justice by William Rehnquist, who was elevated to the position of Chief Justice by President Reagan. Rehnquist's Associate Justice seat was filled by Antonin Scalia.
On September 3, 2005, while Roberts's confirmation was pending before the Senate, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died. Two days later, Bush withdrew Roberts's nomination as O'Connor's successor and nominated Roberts to succeed Rehnquist as chief justice. [89]
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.
Three of these vacancies lasted for less than a day each, as the successor was sworn in the same day the retiring justice officially left office. [106] The longest vacancy during this time frame, and the longest since the Supreme Court was expanded to nine members in 1869, was the 422-day vacancy between the death of Antonin Scalia on February ...
The replacement of Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan II with Lewis F. Powell Jr. and William Rehnquist reinforces the Burger Court's conservatism, and the book ends with William Douglas suffering a stroke at the end of 1974, allowing Gerald Ford to appoint John Paul Stevens as his successor. While Douglas despised Ford over a 1970 attempt to ...