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.

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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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