Judges and Judiciary
Jan. 11, 2007
RehnquistRevelation
FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The recent news about Chief Justice William Rehnquist's drug addiction raises questions about problems in the judiciary and the jurist's own support of long prison sentences for minor drug offenses.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Is there any public interest in knowing the content of FBI files released last week which document that William Rehnquist, while on the Supreme Court, was addicted to powerful painkilling drugs?
The FBI, as part of a background check for Rehnquist's elevation to chief justice in 1986, documented his dependency on the prescript...
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