The Supreme Court
It is a little interesting to see that the stalwart conservative William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was feeling darkly disillusioned toward the end of his career and life.
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In truth, Rehnquist was a tired old man in the spring of 2004. And he had grown cynical about the work of the Court. Over the years, his opinions had become more terse and cryptic because he had come to think that only the results, not how the justices explained them, really mattered. As Rehnquist told one colleague, who was shocked by the chief’s gloom, “Don’t worry about the analysis and principles in the case. Just make sure that the result is a good one this time around - because those principles you announce will be ignored in the next case.”
-- Jeffrey Toobin, “The Nine”
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In truth, Rehnquist was a tired old man in the spring of 2004. And he had grown cynical about the work of the Court. Over the years, his opinions had become more terse and cryptic because he had come to think that only the results, not how the justices explained them, really mattered. As Rehnquist told one colleague, who was shocked by the chief’s gloom, “Don’t worry about the analysis and principles in the case. Just make sure that the result is a good one this time around - because those principles you announce will be ignored in the next case.”
-- Jeffrey Toobin, “The Nine”
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