Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Rehnquist

This is CNN:
The casket bearing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's body will be brought to the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning, marking the start of two days of somber ceremony honoring the nation's 16th chief justice.

Highlighting a career as a Supreme Court justice that began in 1972, Rehnquist's pallbearers will include some of his former law clerks. It wasn't publicly disclosed whether Rehnquist's designated successor, John Roberts, would be one of them.

Roberts on Monday called Rehnquist "a man I deeply respect and admire, a man who has been very kind to me for 25 years."

The tribute came as Roberts joined President Bush in the Oval Office where the president announced he had chosen the former Rehnquist law clerk to be the next chief justice.
The funeral will be tomorrow at 2 p.m. at St. Matthew's Cathedral with the burial at Arlington National Cemetary.
As chief justice, Rehnquist is entitled to a state-sponsored official funeral, a ceremony that includes a 19-gun salute, four ruffles and flourishes from drums and bugles, and the last 32 bars of the John Philip Sousa march "Stars and Stripes Forever" among other military honors.
Rest in peace, Chief.