57 Quotes by William Rehnquist

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    The ‘wall of separation between church and state’ is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

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    Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

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    Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I’m sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your – you know, I’m 67.

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