Papers Offer a Close-Up of Rehnquist and the Court

STANFORD, Calif. -- Not long after he arrived at the Supreme Court in 1972 after three years in the Nixon administration, Justice William H. Rehnquist faced stinging criticism for participating in a decision dismissing a challenge to Army surveillance of domestic political groups in the Vietnam War era. The cases before the court in those years were momentous. They included Roe v. Wade, finding a constitutional right to abortion; United States v. Nixon, ordering the president to comply with a subpoena in the Watergate investigation; and Furman v. Georgia, which suspended the death penalty for, as it turned out, four years.
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Posted by Editor at November 18, 2008 01:38 AM