The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999, William H. Rehnquist | Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presiding

This was later reversed during 2002 in a landmark case before the US Supreme Court, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, in which the divided court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled the Ohio school voucher plan constitutional and removed any constitutional barriers to similar voucher plans in the future, with moderate justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O ' Connor and conservative justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas in the majority.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the majority, stated that " The incidental advancement of a religious mission, or the perceived endorsement of a religious message, is reasonably attributable to the individual aid recipients not the government, whose role ends with the disbursement of benefits.

The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presiding.

Due to the prevalence of American television programs and motion pictures in which the police characters frequently read suspects their rights, it has become an expected element of arrest procedure — in the 2000 Dickerson decision, Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that Miranda warnings had " become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture.

In the landmark decision Nixon v. General Services Administration former Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist declared in his dissent the need to " fully describe the preeminent position that the President of the United States occupies with respect to our Republic.

Sometimes vacancies arise in quick succession, as in the early 1970s when Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William Rehnquist were nominated to replace Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan II, who retired within a week of each other.

Three serving Associate Justices have received promotions to Chief Justice ; Edward Douglass White in 1910, Harlan Fiske Stone in 1941, and William Rehnquist in 1986.

Two Chief Justices, Salmon P. Chase and William Rehnquist, have presided over the trial in the Senate that follows an impeachment of the President – Chase in 1868 over the proceedings against President Andrew Johnson and Rehnquist in 1999 over the proceedings against President Bill Clinton.

William Rehnquist ( left ) takes the oath as Chief Justice from retiring Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1986, as his wife, Natalie, holds the Bible and President Ronald Reagan ( far right ) looks on.

** U. S. President Richard Nixon nominates Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William H. Rehnquist to the U. S. Supreme Court.

The opinion, written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was also highly skeptical of the government's concept of " corrupt persuasion "— persuading someone to engage in an act with an improper purpose even without knowing an act is unlawful.

Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O ' Connor wrote the majority opinion ; they were joined by David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer, and opposed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia.

The decision to emphasize the Copyright clause argument was based on both the minority opinion of Judge Sentelle in the appeals court, and on several recent Supreme Court decisions authored by Chief Justice William Rehnquist: United States v. Lopez and United States v. Morrison.

Justice Antonin Scalia, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, dissented, accepting the Act's stated purpose of " protecting academic freedom " as a sincere and legitimate secular purpose.

Indeed, Chief Justice William Rehnquist repeatedly criticized the Court's invention of corporate constitutional " rights ," most famously in his dissenting opinion in the 1978 case First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti.

On July 24, 1974, in United States v. Nixon, the Court, which did not include the recused Justice William Rehnquist, ruled unanimously that claims of executive privilege over the tapes were void.

* William Rehnquist, Centennial crisis: the disputed election of 1876, Alfred Knopf, New York ( 2003 ) Coverage of the election and subsequent dispute, focusing on the Supreme Court.

William Rehnquist wrote a memo titled " A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases " when he was a law clerk for Justice Robert H. Jackson in 1952, during early deliberations that led to the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Burger, despite his distinguished profile and conservative reputation, was not effective in stopping Brennan's liberalism, so the " Warren Court " remained effective until about 1986, when William Rehnquist became Chief Justice and took control of the agenda.

Ultimately, on August 8, 1974, after the U. S. Supreme Court voted by 8 to 0 to reject Nixon's claims of executive privilege and release the tapes ( with then Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist recusing himself because, as an assistant attorney general during Nixon's first term, he had taken part in internal executive-branch discussions of the scope of executive privilege ), Nixon announced his decision to resign as President.

William H. Rehnquist, one of Marshall's successors as Chief Justice wrote that Fletcher v. Peck " represented an attempt by Chief Justice Marshall to extend the protection of the contract clause to infant business.

Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a dissent, which was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Clarence Thomas.

In Dickerson, the Court held 7 – 2 that " the warnings have become part of our national culture ," speaking through Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Associate Justices William H. Rehnquist ( later Chief Justice ) and Byron White issued dissenting opinions.

William H. Rehnquist, late Chief Justice of the United States, was inspired to add four golden stripes to the sleeves of his judicial robes after seeing the costume of the Lord Chancellor in a production of Iolanthe.

Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a dissent, which Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Clarence Thomas joined.

But the late Supreme Court Chief Justice, William H. Rehnquist had a somewhat different view.

The majority opinion was delivered by Justice White, joined by William H. Rehnquist and Sandra Day O ' Connor.

Due to its location and well-known law school, Suffolk often attracts notable scholars and prominent speakers ; for example, former President John F. Kennedy, former Chief Justice of the United States, William Rehnquist, and former President George H. W.

Chief Justice Burger and Justices Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, and William H. Rehnquist, each appointed by President Richard Nixon, dissented.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist explained that " States historically have been sovereign " in the area of law enforcement, which in the Court's opinion required narrow interpretations of the Commerce Clause and Fourteenth Amendment.

Associate Justice Harry Blackmun's papers indicate that Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist drafted the separation-of-powers portion of the per curiam opinion.

William H. Rehnquist, joined by two other justices, argued that the " uniqueness " of the flag " justifies a governmental prohibition against flag burning in the way respondent Johnson did here.

In the dissenting opinions, Justices Harry A. Blackmun, Warren E. Burger, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and William H. Rehnquist suggested that the result of this ruling would be the elimination of publicly supported single-sex educational opportunities.

They have featured such distinguished speakers as Chief Justices Warren E. Burger and William H. Rehnquist.

He was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist from 1974 to 1975.

In Atkins v. Virginia, for example, the majority cited the fact that the European Union forbid death penalty as part of their reasoning, while Chief Justice Rehnquist denounced the " Court's decision to place weight on foreign laws.

Writing for the majority, Justice Rehnquist rejected the appellants argument for the common law's protection of property against trespass, writing that such an interpretation would " represent a return to the era of Lochner v. New York,, when common-law rights were also found immune from revision ... would freeze the common law as it has been constructed by courts, perhaps at its 19th-century state of development.

In Harmelin, Justice Scalia, joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist, said " the Eighth Amendment contains no proportionality guarantee ," and that " what was ' cruel and unusual ' under the Eighth Amendment was to be determined without reference to the particular offense.

The Rehnquist Court ( 1986 – 2005 ) was noted for its revival of judicial enforcement of federalism, emphasizing the limits of the Constitution's affirmative grants of power ( United States v. Lopez ) and the force of its restrictions on those powers ( Seminole Tribe v. Florida, City of Boerne v. Flores ).

The Roberts Court ( 2005 – present ) is regarded by some as more conservative than the Rehnquist Court.