Ronald Reagan actually said...

Justice Rehnquist believes, as I do, that our Founding Fathers did not create the Supreme Court as a kind of supralegislature; that judges should interpret the law, not make it.

Context

Statement on the Senate Confirmation of William H. Rehnquist as Chief Justice and Antonin Scalia as Associate Justice of the...

09/16/1986

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