Posted on 09/03/2005 8:33:42 PM PDT by jmaroneps37
Sep 03 11:17 PM US/Eastern
WASHINGTON
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.
A statement from the spokeswoman said he was surrounded by his three children when he died in Arlington.
"The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his dues on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days," she said.
Rehnquist was appointed to the Supreme Court as an associate justice in 1971 by President Nixon and took his seat on Jan. 7, 1982. He was elevated to chief justice by President Reagan in 1986.
His death ends a remarkable 33-year Supreme Court career during which Rehnquist oversaw the court's conservative shift, presided over an impeachment trial and helped decide a presidential election.
The death President Bush his second court opening within pour months and sets up what's expected to be an even more bruising Senate confirmation battle than that of John Roberts.
Rehnquist, 80 and ill with cancer, presided over President Clinton's impeachment trial in 1999, helped settle the 2000 presidential election in Bush's favor, and fashioned decisions over the years that diluted the powers of the federal government while strengthening those of the states.
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priosner6
Very sad news indeed.
prisoner6
May God bless his soul.
It is now time to fill the court with ethical jurists with integrity who will uphold the intent and the spirit of our consistitution.
If the Democrats continue to take actions to divide this country, as they have during this last week, conservatives should take every step to exercise their right to nominiate and vote in the choice of the Republican president.
If the congress would exercise their constitutional duties, it wouldn't matter if the USSC felt like legislating.
Almighty God,
we remember before you today your faithful servant William;
and we pray that,
having opened to him the gates of larger life,
you will receive him more and more into your faithful service,
that, with all who have faithfully served you in the past,
he may share in the eternal victory of Jesus Christ our Lord,
Amen
It might just as well say "Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies and so does the Democratic Party."
They won't be able to fight on all these fronts. Sheehan, lying about Able Danger, lying for the Sierra club's connection to the oil shortages, attacking Roberts and trying to blame Bush for Katrina. There's just too many fronts. They must be on suicide watch at the DNC.
That is obviously a typo, where it says he was appointed in 1971 and took office in Jan 1982.
I can't think of who the last justice was to die in office. I think it has been decades.
I hope Mr Bush makes a bold dramatic choice for a new CJ.
FWIW outr newsroom here in Pittsburgh got it around 11:20. Not bad for Metro News.
prisoner6
Scalia.
What is FARK?
Get a grip Fox!!!..the US has had worse things happen. We survived a civil war and a revolution.
We can survive Katrina and the death of a conservative Supreme Judge.
I will very much miss his prescence on the court. God bless him and prayers for he and his family.
Bork.
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prisoner6
thanks
A great man.
He dissented on Roe v Wade.
He will be missed.
Lets get Abortion illegalized soon.
The way it outta be.
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