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Saturday, September 03, 2005

BREAKING NEWS: REHNQUIST DIES

More details to come. This from AP:
WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg.

A statement from the spokeswoman said he was surrounded by his three children when he died in Arlington.

"The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his dues on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days," she said.

Rehnquist was appointed to the Supreme Court as an associate justice in 1971 by President Nixon and took his seat on Jan. 7, 1982. He was elevated to chief justice by President Reagan in 1986.
It will distract from the Katrina news, but only briefly. It looks like there's a double vacancy now. It's what many had expected and feared. The question is who will be Chief Justice now? Will Bush go for Scalia or Thomas?

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