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Robe worn by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist during sessions of the Supreme Court and during the Senate impeachment trial of President William Clinton. Rehnquist added the gold stripes to the sleeves in 1995 after seeing the costume worn by the Lord Chancellor in a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe. Rehnquist was appointed to the court in 1971 as an associate justice and was chief justice from 1986 until his death on September 3, 2005. |
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photograph of the U.S. Supreme Court, by Mathew Brady, 1869
Courtesy of National Archives |
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U.S.
Supreme Court, 1932
Courtesy of U.S. Supreme Court |
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U.S.
Supreme Court, 1998 Back row (left to right): Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Hackett Souter, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer; front row (left to right): Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, William Hubbs Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony M. Kennedy. Courtesy of U.S. Supreme Court |
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