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Bush chooses Roberts, weighs other vacancy
Sep 5 2005 10:10PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Seizing a historic opportunity to reshape the Supreme Court, President Bush swiftly chose conservative John Roberts as chief justice Monday and weighed how to fill another vacancy that could push the nation's highest court to the right on issues from abortion to affirmative action.
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Rehnquist's casket heads to court Tuesday
Sep 5 2005 6:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The casket bearing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's body will be brought to the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning, marking the start of two days of somber ceremony honoring the nation's 16th chief justice.
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Roberts faces hard task as chief justice
Sep 5 2005 6:36PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - John Roberts, if confirmed to the Supreme Court, faces the unsettling task of reining in strong-willed and experienced colleagues, including two men he beat out for the job of chief justice.
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Rehnquist's tenure offers Roberts lessons
Sep 5 2005 4:23PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attention John Roberts: William H. Rehnquist's 19-year tenure as chief justice offers some useful lessons on how to be a successful leader of the Supreme Court.
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4-4 are bad numbers for Supreme Court
Sep 5 2005 4:16PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Numbers matter and at the Supreme Court, the bad numbers are 4-4. Tie votes are the bane of a smoothly operating judiciary because 4-4 signifies that there's no decision, leaving the ruling of a lower court intact and making it impossible for the Supreme Court to sort out differences between conflicting decisions from below.
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Roberts rises to chief justice nominee
Sep 5 2005 8:16AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two men _ one middle-aged, the other in his twenties _ barely drew any notice as they strolled the streets around the Supreme Court, deep in discussion about the law. One was William Rehnquist, a justice on the nation's highest court. The other was his clerk, John Roberts.
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Rehnquist won plaudits for impartiality
Sep 5 2005 1:54AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - William H. Rehnquist was a betting man _ wagering on everything from sports to the outcome of presidential elections _ and he would have known that the odds were against one man playing back-to-back roles in two of the nation's most engrossing political dramas.
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