An excerpt: O’Connor was planning to stay on the Court for another year. She “knew that Rehnquist believed emphatically that the court shouldn’t have two retirements at the same time.” ...
Bush invited Rehnquist to the White House for lunch and Rehnquist accepted. At the lunch, Bush and Rehnquist discussed the Court. Asked why Bush invited him, Rehnquist replied: Maybe to talk about ...
Chief Justice John Roberts first arrived at the Supreme Court in 1980, as a law clerk to then-Associate Justice William Rehnquist, for what would be a formative year in his judicial calling.