The education of William Rehnquist, as rendered by Jenkins, was less a search for truth than a search for reinforcement. While serving in North Africa during World War II, Rehnquist read Friedrich ...

Rehnquist's mixed legacy Historians will rank him as one of the 20th century's most important chief justices, but while William Rehnquist's court transformed constitutional law, he did not.

When Chief Justice William Rehnquist helped decide the 2000 presidential election, his radical legal theory failed to gain a majority. But today’s conservative court is giving it another chance ...

William Rehnquist was celebrated Wednesday as a man of humor and hope, a leader who led fairly and as a father and grandfather who knew “time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” In a ...

William H. Rehnquist will likely be seen as one of the three most influential chief justices in history, surpassed perhaps only by John Marshall and Earl Warren.

A new biography of Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist reveals a complex, intelligent, and conservative man.

William Rehnquist was born in Milwaukee, Wis., on oct. 1 1924. He grew up in a conservative household. The outbreak of World War II interrupted his studies and he joined the Army.

An FBI file released this week reveals the bureau’s involvement in William Rehnquist’s confirmation hearings in 1971, when he joined the Supreme Court, and 1986, when he became chief justice ...

She assumed her old friend, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who was ravaged with cancer, was going to retire in the next few weeks. Earlier in the term she had met with Rehnquist, who had become ...