William Rehnquist

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/1/2023
  

  New Evidence: Rehnquist Pretty Much OK with Plessy v. Ferguson

  by Richard Hasen and Dahlia Lithwick

  A 1952 memo that Rehnquist wrote defending "separate but equal" was raised during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings and dismissed as work-for-hire. It is now clear that he supported the narrow interpretation of the 14th Amendment that the current court majority hopes to use to undermine civil rights. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-31-18
  

  William proposed. Sandra said no. They reunited on the Supreme Court.

  Decades before they would serve together on the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor were engaged in a different type of courtship.