"Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies of Cancer
By GINA HOLLAND
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who oversaw the high court's conservative shift and presided over the impeachment trial of President Clinton, died Saturday evening. He was 80 years old and had spent 33 years on the Supreme Court."
This will provide for an interesting confrontation between the different sides. I don't know if any President has had to deal with two nominations in the same year.
edited to add:
"The last time there were simultaneous vacancies at the court was 1971, when Justices Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan retired in September, about a week apart. Rehnquist, then a Justice Department lawyer, urged the Nixon administration to move fast in replacing them and wound up being appointed to Harlan's seat himself."
Interesting coincidence.
By GINA HOLLAND
WASHINGTON (AP) - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who oversaw the high court's conservative shift and presided over the impeachment trial of President Clinton, died Saturday evening. He was 80 years old and had spent 33 years on the Supreme Court."
This will provide for an interesting confrontation between the different sides. I don't know if any President has had to deal with two nominations in the same year.
edited to add:
"The last time there were simultaneous vacancies at the court was 1971, when Justices Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan retired in September, about a week apart. Rehnquist, then a Justice Department lawyer, urged the Nixon administration to move fast in replacing them and wound up being appointed to Harlan's seat himself."
Interesting coincidence.
