WASHINGTON — Chief Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist's death Sept. 3 was not unexpected. The talk among Washington's political class had been that the 80-year-old jurist, stricken by thyroid cancer, ...

After a five-month hiatus because of thyroid cancer, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist returned to oral arguments at the Supreme Court yesterday, walking under his own power as Marshal Pamela Talkin ...

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist emphatically denied yesterday that he intends to step down from the Supreme Court in the near future, as he sought to halt a spiral of speculation about his possible ...

William H. Rehnquist, Architect of Conservative Court, Dies at 80 William H. Rehnquist, who died Saturday at the age of 80, almost a year after learning he had thyroid cancer, helped lead a ...

The death last week of Chief Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist at 80 was a surprise but not a shock. He had been stricken with thyroid cancer last year and had been widely expected to resign over the ...

The late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist took a powerful sedative during his first decade on the Supreme Court and grew so dependent on it that he became delusional and tried to escape from a ...

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s health is shrouded in mystery, the extent of his thyroid cancer a closely guarded secret. Several coming events could give the public an idea about the seriousness ...

The saga of how Washington’s federal civil service struggles to keep on keeping on grows more and more bizarre. First there was the unpleasantly rough toilet paper in the EPA executive rest rooms.

Half a century ago, Congress protected its power of the purse, and conservatives balked at letting presidents disobey lawmakers’ instructions. By Adam Liptak The Office of Legal Counsel issues ...