biography
| name: |
Rehnquist, William H(ubbs)
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pronunciation:
[renkwist]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He studied at Harvard and the Stanford Law School, then practised law, and became active in the Republican Party. In his post as head of the Office of Legal Council in the justice department (1969), he supported such controversial measures as pre-trial detention and wire-tapping, impressing President Nixon, who appointed him Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1972. In 1986 he was appointed Chief Justice, and after 1989, when a ‘new right’ majority had been established by President Reagan, he framed a series of conservative rulings on abortion, affirmative action, and capital punishment. |
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