Topics include the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and President Bush's decision, announced Monday, to nominate federal appellate judge John Roberts to succeed Rehnquist in the top post on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- 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 ...

The death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has left the U.S. Supreme Court without a key voice of judicial restraint when it comes to matters involving colleges. Combined with Justice Sandra Day ...

Chief Justice Judge William H. Rehnquist leaves a legacy of conservative rulings that reined in the reach of the federal government and upheld states' rights. But it's unclear whether legislation from ...

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who spent 19 years shepherding the Supreme Court in a more conservative direction, died Saturday of thyroid cancer. He was 80. The end of Rehnquist's tenure, which ...

Justice Rehnquist can usually count on the votes of Chief Justice Burger, Justice Lewis Powell, and, to a slightly lesser extent, Justice Byron R. White. When Potter Stewart was on the Court, he ...

Seven years after he wrote a book about impeachment, then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist presided over one: the trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999, which resulted in acquittal. What follow are ...

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist had an influential role in numerous education cases during his 33-year tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court, particularly in the areas of school desegregation, ...

It was a coincidence of fate — and a love story not meant to be. A new biography of the first female Supreme Court Justice coming out in March reveals that the late Justice William Rehnquist proposed ...