Justices Rehnquist and Powell joined the Supreme Court too late to hear the first round of arguments.

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.

Wildcat Wilson and Clyde Smith were named to the first team, while Curly Oden, Milt Rehnquist, and Gus Sonnenberg were placed on the second team.

It was the first major school prayer case decided by the Rehnquist Court.

President George W. Bush first nominated John Roberts to the vacancy ; however, when Chief Justice William Rehnquist died on September 3, Bush withdrew Roberts ' nomination to fill O ' Connor's seat and instead nominated Roberts to the Chief Justiceship.

The first day consisted of formal presentation of the charges against Clinton, and of Justice Rehnquist swearing in all arguants in the trial.

* 2005 – Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the first so-honored to have died in office.

The doctrine was first announced by the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision written by then-Associate Justice William Rehnquist, Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer,.

* Laura E. Little ( first law clerk to William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States )

Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote, " We start with first principles.

Since the latter half of the Rehnquist Court era, Congressional use of the Commerce Clause has become slightly restricted again, being limited only to matters of trade ( whether interstate or not ) and production ( whether commercial or not ).

" In another instance of a slightly more narrow modern view, Justice Rehnquist, an opponent of substantive due process analysis, wrote in the decision of the 1989 case Graham v. Connor that " because the Fourth Amendment provides an explicit textual source of constitutional protection against this sort of physically intrusive governmental conduct, that Amendment, not the more generalized notion of ' substantive due process ,' must be the guide for analyzing these claims.

Rehnquist ’ s opinion also held that Texas courts ’ refusal to even consider Herrera ’ s newly discovered evidence did not violate due process and suggested that Herrera file a clemency petition with the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles.

Justice Clarence Thomas argued that cross-burning itself should be a First Amendment exception, as others have argued regarding flag-burning ( see Justice William Rehnquist ’ s dissenting opinion in Texas v. Johnson ), due to the historical association of cross-burning with terrorism.

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.

When it became apparent that this twelve member committee would find that both were unqualified, Nixon passed over Friday and Lillie for Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist.

In the 1980s, as the Reagan administration and the Rehnquist Court threatened to " roll back " the decisions of the Warren Court, Brennan became more vocal about his jurisprudential views.

Several commissioners later became Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States: Louis Brandeis, Wiley Blount Rutledge, and William H. Rehnquist.

In 1986, William H. Rehnquist's membership in the club became the subject of discussion in a Senate Judiciary hearing after Rehnquist was nominated to be Chief Justice.

He was unanimously confirmed by the U. S. Senate and sworn into office by Chief Justice William Rehnquist on January 22, 1993.

President George W. Bush is sworn into his second term on January 20, 2005 by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court | Chief Justice William Rehnquist, as First Lady Laura Bush and their daughters Barbara Pierce Bush | Barbara and Jenna Bush | Jenna, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert look on.

* Rehnquist, William H. Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson ( 1994 ).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

At first I thought he had missed.

Remember how by lack of two big theaters Chicago missed the first visit of the Royal Danish Ballet??

Just missed the first ''.

It is also representative of the evolution and direction of our team .” During the 2003 preseason Michael Vick broke his leg and missed the first twelve games of the season.

For example, he once missed first prize in a tournament in Berlin by losing to Sämisch, and when it became clear he was going to lose the game, Nimzowitsch stood up on the table and shouted, " Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!

Helton and Wilson — virtually the only experienced players on the team — struggled as well ; Helton hit just 20 homers, the fewest of his career, and missed the All-Star Game for the first time since 1999 and also went on the disabled list for the first time in his career.

In 1959 the Red Wings missed the playoffs for the first time in 21 years.

" Baresi missed the first penalty kick in the shootout, and with teammate Roberto Baggio missing the last penalty, Italy lost the first World Cup Final to be decided on penalties.

The plan failed as the Greek ships quickly broke contact, while at the same time the Mecidiye came under attack by the Greek submarine Delfin, which launched a torpedo against it but missed ; the first such attack in history.

Cronje missed the first Test of the series with Pakistan because of a knee injury.

Center Brad Meester missed the first two months of the season and guard Chris Naeole, signed to the roster mid-season in response to these injuries, was injured in pregame warmups before playing a single snap.

Bradman missed the first Test due to illness, although Jardine refused to believe this and thought the real reason was that the batsman had suffered a nervous breakdown due to his tactical scheme.

After kicker Gary Anderson, who had just completed the first perfect regular season in NFL history ( not missing a single extra point or field goal attempt the entire year ), missed a 38-yard field goal attempt with less than 2 minutes remaining, the Falcon's ensuing drive tied the game.

Smith missed the first month of the season with a hamstring injury, and continued to harbor ill feelings toward La Russa that had developed after spring training ended.

However, a hot start in the second half of the season put the Phillies back on the postseason hunt, though any hope was eventually extinguished with a loss to the Washington Nationals on September 28, thus the Phillies missed the postseason for the first time since 2006.

This double-digestion process enables rabbits to use nutrients that they may have missed during the first passage through the gut, as well as the nutrients formed by the microbial activity and thus ensures that maximum nutrition is derived from the food they eat.

Walker barely missed becoming the first Triple Crown winner in baseball since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967.

The design was completed afterwards and used a different internal system from the MP18 or Beretta, but it had missed its chance to be the first purpose-designed submachine gun to enter service.

But Gerela missed his first attempt, and a bad snap prevented the second one from getting off the ground.

On the first play after the missed field goal, Hughes recovered Denver tight end Riley Odoms's fumble at the Broncos 28-yard line.

5 plays later, defensive back Mark Washington intercepted another errant Morton pass and returned it 27 yards to Denver's 35-yard line with just 6 seconds left in the period, but Herrera missed yet another field goal attempt, this time from 44 yards out as time expired in the first half.

Then after Washington was forced to punt, Bills running back Thurman Thomas missed the first two plays of Buffalo's first drive because he misplaced his helmet.