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It's undeniable that Rehnquist's gold stripes reflected his personality.

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Rehnquist's predecessor, the often-maligned Warren Burger, comes off appealingly, too, organizing birthday celebrations for each justice and selecting the wine for the occasion.

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According to Cornyn, Rehnquist's legal scholarship and reverence for the court, two qualities everyone agrees Kagan possesses, enabled him to become "the judicial giant of our time."

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But before everyone starts marching on the Conde Nast building, we should all breathe deep and reread William Rehnquist's majority opinion from the case of Hustler Magazine and Larry C. Flynt v. Jerry Falwell:

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Evoking the rhetoric of the right to privacy, Rehnquist's opinion characterized the due process clause as a means of protecting individual citizens from excessive state intervention: "Its purpose was to protect people from the State, not to ensure that the State protected them from each other."

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A secret hiding in plain sight since the early years of William H. Rehnquist's tenure as Chief Justice, this threat caught the limelight in January, when Rehnquist's successor, John Roberts, in Citizens United struck down century-old statutory controls on corporate political activity.

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A 25-year relationship as mentor and protégé ended only with Rehnquist's death days before his former law clerk was named to succeed him.

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The FBI's 1986 report on Rehnquist's drug dependence was not released at the time of his confirmation, though some Democratic senators wanted it made public.

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Kinda like Rehnquist's definition of "strict construction", right?

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As Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times noted, "A 25-year relationship as mentor and protege ended only with Rehnquist's death days before his former law clerk was named to succeed him."

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