The Rehnquist Court
Subtitle: Judicial Activism on the Right
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: November 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780809080731
Subjects: Legal Reference / Law Profession; Rehnquist, William H.,; Judicial process; Courts - General; United States; Political aspects; Law; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Constitutional; Courts - Supreme Court; Political Science / Civil Rights; Rehnquist, William H; United States.; Supreme Court; General; 1924-; Conservatism
First sentence: In the introduction to The Burger Years (1987), I wrote that the appointment of Associate Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist as the sixteenth chief justice of the United States and the elevation of Court of Appeals Judge Antonin Scalia to the high court mark "the beginning of a reshaping of the Supreme Court, the contours of which are still unknown.