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...think Roe was "wrongly decided," as he wrote in a 1990 Justice Department brief, Democrats want to know if he would be willing to throw it out or whether that would be too radical a reaction for his taste. Conservatives hope Roberts will line up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas in favor of overturning Roe, which would match the quartet--David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens--that wants to maintain it, leaving Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote. While Roe might survive, such a lineup would probably ensure that the 2003 congressional...
...Here is a classic tension: How much restraint should one branch of government show when it feels another is not showing enough? The Rehnquist Court holds the record for tossing out congressional statutes, often on the ground that Congress is muscling in on state turf. The argument rests on how one reads the Constitution's Commerce Clause, an omnibus notion that allows Congress to regulate interstate commerce but has frequently been used as an all-purpose regulatory vehicle. The high court has overturned a federal law that barred possession of a firearm within 1,000 ft. of a school...
...measure time in terms of presidencies and chief justiceships,” he said. “This exaggerates the role of the chief justice in history. For instance, the Rehnquist court had a lot of aspects who were not just Chief Justice Rehnquist...
Today, as the president announced the nomination from the Oval Office with the nominee at his side, he praised both Roberts and Rehnquist, for whom Roberts clerked after law school...
...Harvard in the fall of 1973. He graduated summa cum laude in History in just three years and went on to graduate magna cum laude from HLS while serving as the Managing Editor of The Harvard Law Review. He went on to clerk for Circuit Judge Henry Friendly and Rehnquist, when Rehnquist was an associate justice on the Supreme Court...