MEMORIALIZING REHNQUIST
The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court came together on Dec. 10 — sans robes — to honor the legacy of one of their own, the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose Italian marble bust was being installed in the Court’s Upper Great Hall in a ceremony that also drew high court advocates and lower court judges. Prior to his death in 2005 at the age of 80, Rehnquist selected a likeness taken in clay by sculptor Mark Fondersmith to become the source of the official portrait bust. Rehnquist’s bust will sit outside the entrance to the courtroom, opposite the late Chief Justice Warren Burger. The busts of all 16 former chief justices line the hall. “Despite his modest and unassuming ways, he has left a permanent impression on this institution, both as a great justice and a great chief justice,” Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said. Justice John Paul Stevens called Rehnquist a “first among equals in every wonderful sense.” Grandchildren Baird Rehnquist Spears and Dana Rehnquist unveiled the bust. — Mike Scarcella
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