Fox News Channel - William Rehnquist death - 2005-09-03
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[0:05] This is a Fox News alert. William
[0:07] Renquist, the Chief Justice of the
[0:09] United States Supreme Court, has passed
[0:11] away. He died at today in Arlington,
[0:14] surrounded by his family. Renquist lived
[0:17] a passionate life in law. His drive
[0:20] could be traced back to his childhood
[0:22] when he declared that he was quote going
[0:24] to change the government. Over the
[0:26] years, he presided over many important
[0:28] cases, but he may be best remembered for
[0:31] the impeachment trial of President Bill
[0:33] Clinton. Fox News correspondent Todd
[0:36] Connor has reported on this story. Uh
[0:38] the Chief Justice uh died, as we said,
[0:40] today uh just a short time ago. He was
[0:43] he died in Arlington surrounded by his
[0:45] family. Um the uh the chief justice was
[0:51] ill for quite some time. As a matter of
[0:53] fact, it was touchandgo there for a
[0:55] while whether or not he was going to
[0:57] preside over the inaugural of President
[1:00] uh George Bush, the second inaugural of
[1:03] George W. Bush. But William Renquist did
[1:06] rally for that. Over the past several
[1:08] months, there has been much speculation
[1:11] as to who would would succeed him in
[1:14] that position.
[1:16] Uh Fox News Channel's Greta Van Sustran
[1:18] uh is now with us who can talk a little
[1:20] bit more about the legal implications
[1:22] and and the life professionally of
[1:25] William Renquist and what he meant to
[1:27] the Supreme Court and to the laws of
[1:29] this nation. Greta, are you there?
[1:31] >> Yeah, I am here. And of course, the one
[1:33] thing to to remember is that he has been
[1:35] on that court for a number of years
[1:36] since the early 1970s. He was appointed
[1:38] by President Richard Nix