Today in Supreme Court History: September 3, 2005

9/3/2005: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist dies.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

 

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[DaivdBehar]

Twitter is not fun. Why bother to add to 10k tweets on a subject?

[DaivdBehar]

I know now, my home is here.

[Frank Drackman]

C'mon (Man) no photo wearing the Gilbert & Sullivan inspired "Striped" Robe that he wore during William Juffufson C's impeachment trial?? You're Welcome.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/john-roberts-will-not-wear-a-striped-robe-for-impeachment.html

[DaivdBehar]

Clinton's real crime? Raising taxes on the rich. So they brought the lawfare, as they are doing today. They used $75 million of tax money for political retaliation. That is a federal larceny. Review here:

https://www.justice.gov/jmd/misuse-position-and-government-resources

Result? Clinton spent 1000 hours on his defense, instead of on Al Qaeda after the first WTC bombing.

Result? 9/11, and a $7 trillion hit to the economy.

There is every justification to arrest the Jan 6 Committee for federal larceny. The real purpose of the Jan 6 Committee is to prevent the re-election of Trump. Naturally, they have just angered half the country, and assured the re-election of Trump.

Nothing is stupider than the lawyer in this country.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

He did an OK job presiding at the Clinton impeachment.

[Dan Schiavetta]

He must have realized what a hypocritical farce it was. But he stuck to his nonpartisan face.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Knickerbocker Printing Corp. v. United States, 75 S.Ct. 212 (decided September 3, 1954): in Eminent Domain case alleging inadequate compensation for demolishing a building to erect a VA hospital, Jackson reluctantly grants 20-day extension for filing cert; counsel's excuse was that he was busy in the lower courts, but new rule precluding this excuse just went into effect; Jackson requests that the New York Law Journal and the Second Circuit post warnings to all attorneys for future reference (cert ended up being denied anyway, 348 U.S. 875)

Gruner v. Superior Court of California 429 U.S. 1314 (decided September 3, 1976): reporters ordered jailed until they answered questions as to grand jury sources seek stay of commitment on the ground that there was no "due process hearing" to determine whether jailing them would achieve its purpose of forcing them to cooperate; Rehnquist notes that this argument amounts to "you can't jail us if we can prove it won't work!"; denies stay

[blue heron]

High on painkillers for his first decade on the court, became delusional, should have recused himself, everybody looked the other way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2007/01/05/sedative-withdrawal-made-rehnquist-delusional-in-81-span-classbankheadfiles-detail-drug-addiction-and-fbis-role-in-hearingsspan/e282c8fb-81ca-4d37-8621-e82a675e2bdf/