William Rehnquist

September 8, 2005 | This article appeared in the September 26, 2005 edition of The Nation.

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William Rehnquist showed little regard for the social
consequences that followed his unrelenting application of conservative
legal theory.

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Bruce Shapiro

Bruce Shapiro, a contributing editor to The Nation, is executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma...

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