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Chief Justice William Rehnquist William Hubbs Renquist was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 1, 1924. William Rehnquist went to elementary and high school in Shorewood, Wisconsin. He served in the United States Army Air Corps in this country and overseas from 1943 to 1946. Then was discharged with the rank of sergeant. He was further educated at Stanford and Harvard universities. He attended Stanford University in 1948. At Stanford, he earned both a bachelor and a master of arts …

…symposium on the Rehnquist Court. Roe v. Wade is a controversial decision that established a woman's right to an abortion that still stands. So does the Miranda decision requiring warnings from police, as well as a federal ban on praying in public schools. The court also stopped a conservative-backed Colorado plan barring gays from civil rights protections. There is a range of cases considered by the Supreme Court and many of them are never heard.