Posted on 09/03/2005 8:07:24 PM PDT by kcvl
Per CNN...
The time isn't the best. No wonder the Democrats and the MSM have been working overtime undermining GW and his administration.
Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at Home
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050904/ap_on_go_su_co/rehnquist
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.
OK. I give.
He's #4 this year for me. JP2, Barbara Bel Geddes, Eddie Albert and I forget.
Yeah, they'll do all that. They'll also try to persuade O'Connor to withdraw her retirement and take the Chief Justice position.
But if all else fails, they will filibuster.
You can say that again!
Being a New York Liberal, he should have at least two.
Don't be silly. Surely it's Ray Nagin's fault.
Scalia and Thomas should send a telegram to Schumer tonight - "see you at the hearings".
I bet the dems try to talk Sandra Day O'Connor out of retiring now...
and I bet she agrees.
Resquiscat in Pace. Prayers while he faces the Supreme Judge.
Rest in Peace.
Cannot even fathom the reaction from the RATs on this news. Greta -- she just figured out that O'Connor a moderate is being replaced by a conservative and now the Chief Justice will be replaced by a conservative and the Court shifts! Talking about Justice Scalia being elevated. I cannot quit chuckling at the reaction by the RATs to all of this.
The Chief Justice has to be smiling at Greta's analysis. This man's legacy will be leaving us a Conservative Court!
Condolences to his family; may he rest in peace.
I think they found Ted Kennedy scurrying in nearby woods after giving Mr. Rehnquist a ride.
CNN took 3 sentences fter breaking into Mad TV to politicize this with a correspondent roughly saying, “I don’t want to sound ghoulish, but this is certainly something the President has been looking forward to… to put his mark on the court.”
To quote my husband. "You can rebuild the levee in NOLA with the bricks the Democrats will be laying for the next few weeks."
It is a busy night, this is yet another issue for the President to tackle but I do know he is able ...
Prayers to his family.
Oh yeah. I had 'im...
what are the odds of Roberts being changed to Chief and a woman being named as the associate(Brown, Jones, Owen)?
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