Supreme Court Justice Renquist Passes Away

[DudeAsInCool]

Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at Home

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050904/ap_on_go_su_co/renquist

[CTC Command]

This doesn't come as much of a surprise...he's been pretty ill of late.

Hmmmm, things getting interesting, hmmmmm? Roberts already in the pipeline, by most accounts and analysis W could have done much worse in his choice. Most feel he'll grow into the job and will probably not be a radical right-wing anti-abortion pro-school prayer etc etc kind of jurist (for example, readthis.).

But the death of William Renquist throws a new monkey wrench into the works, as the religious right (and certain congressmen) will be keenly interested in seeing Bush nominate someone much more solidly in their camp for job of Chief Justice. And W being just ever so poular with everybody right now...

[Shawn]

I wonder if this is really who Robertson meant. ;)

[slum_goddess]

Most feel he'll grow into the job and will probably not be a radical right-wing anti-abortion pro-school prayer etc etc kind of jurist

i'm not holding my breath here for that.

[MrBag]

Hmmmm.justice was done, (in).........

[slum_goddess]

i hated rehnquist before and especially in dez 2K when he put on those ridiculous gold stripes and fucked US. and now even more for this: 'Lito Pena is sure of his memory. Thirty-six years ago he, then a Democratic Party poll watcher, got into a shoving match with a Republican who had spent the opening hours of the 1964 election doing his damnedest to keep people from voting in south Phoenix.

"He was holding up minority voters because he knew they were going to vote Democratic," said Pena.

The guy called himself Bill. He knew the law and applied it with the precision of a swordsman. He sat at the table at the Bethune School, a polling place brimming with black citizens, and quizzed voters ad nauseam about where they were from, how long they'd lived there -- every question in the book. A passage of the Constitution was read and people who spoke broken English were ordered to interpret it to prove they had the language skills to vote.

By the time Pena arrived at Bethune, he said, the line to vote was four abreast and a block long. People were giving up and going home...'