Word: warrener
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...Richard Nixon in 1971, he believed that the court was "heeling" to the left and felt obliged, as he later put it, "to lean the other way." He was not much of a counterweight. The high court at the time was still dominated by liberals from the Earl Warren era, and Rehnquist often found himself in lonely dissent against the Justices' rulings upholding the constitutional rights of blacks, women and the poor. Indeed, Rehnquist was on the short end of so many 8-to-1 votes that his law clerks presented him with a small Lone Ranger doll, which still...
...William Rehnquist is the Lone Ranger no longer. To his brethren he will henceforth be known as "the chief." Last week President Reagan announced that Rehnquist will succeed Warren Burger, 78, who will step down after 17 years as the highest jurist in the land when the court's term ends next month. On the first Monday in October, when the nine Justices emerge from behind the red curtain to take the high bench, William Hubbs Rehnquist will become the 16th Chief Justice of the United States...
...Burger Court was a disappointment to conservatives. The six Justices appointed by three Republican Presidents from 1969 to 1981 failed to undo the extraordinary record of judicial activism compiled by the liberal Warren Court of the '60s.* Most galling to the right, the Burger Court gave women a constitutional right to abortion in 1973. Divided and unpredictable, the court was Burger's in name only. The most controversial cases were decided, often with confusing split opinions, by a shifting center of five or six Justices...
Antonin "Nino" Scalia was named to the position Tuesday by President Reagan, following the surprise resignation of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Scalia, who has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals since 1982, must receive Senate confirmation before joining the nine-member Court...
...simulated by wads of cotton, the dirt on a remote planet by a pile of cork. The walls of the mine in Indiana Jones were made of scrunched-up aluminum foil, spray-painted to look like rocks. "We have no commitment to using the most sophisticated techniques," says Warren Franklin, ILM's general manager. "We go with what works...