(25 quotes found)
“It will be an extraordinary moment in the first confidential conference when a legendary figure like William Rehnquist is replaced at the head of the table by someone so junior. But John Roberts is one of the few people who would be up to that challenge.”
Walter Dellinger
“He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Rehnquist you [saw] now. He [was] very grounded.”
David Leitch
“This term may be the end of the Rehnquist Court era.”
David O'Brien
“Rehnquist has been enormously influential in curbing, if not reversing, the Court's pro-criminal defendant rulings of the 1960s, in establishing state sovereignty decisions, and in questioning the scope of Congress's enumerated powers, for example, invalidating substantial portions of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act.”
Dennis Hutchinson
“The Rehnquist court ... attempted to restore dual sovereignty and the conception that states have functions that cannot be displaced by the federal government.”
Douglas Kmiec
“I think John Roberts always was the front-runner for the Rehnquist seat. I would guess that Roberts has been the choice for some time. The only curve was that O'Connor was the person (to retire), not Rehnquist.”
Ralph Neas
“I think, actually, if you want to know where Roberts is on a lot of stuff, Rehnquist is a good place to start,”
Richard Garnett
“That's when I realized that somebody like Rehnquist was absolutely ideal.”
John Dean
“Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.”
“The highest points I give Rehnquist is for his sense of long-term judicial strategy,”
Jonathan Turley
