His first priority is to gain the respect and confidence and trust of his colleagues.
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The chief justice is the titular head of the third branch in the U.S. And abroad. You're looking for someone with the intellectual and leadership skills that can be a persuasive force in conference and the wider world.
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He emerged as an administrator to be reckoned with, a big-league administrator who embraced that role.
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He could use the stripes out of respect for Chief Justice Rehnquist. He could also not use the stripes out of respect for Rehnquist.
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There was some promise of a Rehnquist court revolution, and that hasn't happened. I think we were too quick to say that this was the conservative Republican answer to the Warren court.
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To me, the shadow she cast was that everyone in the jury was anti-government.
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In Burger's heyday they were deciding 150 cases a year -- so many that they were talking about creating an intermediate appellate court to handle some of the load. Rehnquist comes in, and with the platform of being chief justice, all that disappears, to the point where the Court is being criticized for taking too few cases.
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Our defense was much better. We just got outmanned. They were much bigger than us. We got pounded on the boards.
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