Rehnquist served as Chief Justice for nearly 19 years, making him the fourth-longest-serving Chief and the eighth-longest-serving Justice. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated Rehnquist to succeed retiring Chief Justice Warren Burger, and the Senate confirmed him. Rehnquist quickly established himself as the Burger Court's most conservative member. Whether he committed perjury during the hearings is debated by historians, but it is known that at the very least he had defended segregation by private businesses in the early 1960s on the grounds of freedom of association. Board of Education and allegedly taking part in voter suppression efforts targeting minorities as a lawyer. During his confirmation hearings, Rehnquist was criticized for allegedly opposing the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. In 1971, Nixon nominated Rehnquist to succeed Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan II, and the U.S. In that capacity, Rehnquist played a role in forcing Justice Abe Fortas to resign for accepting $20,000 from financier Louis Wolfson before Wolfson was convicted of selling unregistered shares. Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel in 1969. presidential election, and President Richard Nixon appointed him U.S. Rehnquist served as a legal adviser for Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater in the 1964 U.S.
Jackson during the Supreme Court's 1952–53 term, then entered private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. After the war's end in 1945, he studied political science at Stanford University and Harvard University, then attended Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review and graduated first in his class.
Army Air Forces during the final years of World War II. Rehnquist grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and served in the U.S. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority. Under this view of federalism, the Court, for the first time since the 1930s, struck down an act of Congress as exceeding its power under the Commerce Clause, with the exception of National League of Cities v. Considered an ultra-conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states. William Hubbs Rehnquist ( / ˈ r ɛ n k w ɪ s t/ REN-kwist Octo– September 3, 2005) was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States for 33 years, first as an associate justice from 1972 to 1986 and then as the 16th chief justice from 1986 until his death in 2005.