How to Use chief justice in a Sentence
chief justice
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That has, at times, made the chief justice hard to pin down.
—John Fritze, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
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John Roberts is the 17th chief justice of the United States .
—Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022
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The chief justice of the Supreme Court presides over that process.
—Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
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The chief justice has tried to make this work, but in the end, the legacy is the court is busted.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 May 2022
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And that's, just to be clear, pretty rare for a chief justice.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2022
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Warren Burger, chief justice of the Supreme Court through the ‘70s and ‘80s, bought his books there.
—Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
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The next step will be for the chief justice to organize a trial.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
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The first time that this process was used for the hiring a clerk of the supreme court and court of appeals was in 2018 when PDR was chief justice.
—Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
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The chief justice hates when the court is sort of drawn into the mudsling of politics.
—ABC News, 31 Dec. 2023
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The court's justices will have to vote again at the start of its next term in January on a chief justice.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2022
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This is not the first time false claims have circulated about the chief justice.
—Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
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Five of the nine Supreme Court seats are on the ballot next year, including chief justice.
—Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 30 June 2023
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Roberts, the chief justice, issued a rare rebuke that day.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
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The chief justice is not the boss of Justice Clarence Thomas or any of the associate justices.
—Joan Biskupic, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
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But the chief justice did not seek to bridge the partisan divide in the case of Trump vs. United States.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
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Tom Parker, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, was the lone dissent.
—Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 6 Feb. 2023
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What can a chief justice bring to the U.S. Supreme Court that an associate justice cannot?
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2022
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That was followed in 1953 by his appointment as chief justice of the Supreme Court.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2023
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The chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court was herself a Republican.
—Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2022
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In 2021, members of the Court chose Ziegler to serve as chief justice, replacing Roggensack, who stepped down from the role.
—Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2024
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By the time the chief justice summoned the three dozen clerks for a mandatory meeting about the breach, many of the pedigreed young lawyers were worried.
—Jodi Kantor, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
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Miriam Naor served on the Israeli Supreme Court for 14 years and became the second woman to helm the court as chief justice.
—Sun Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2023
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Specifically, the chief justice wants to know who leaked the opinion to Politico, and why.
—Peter Weber, The Week, 5 May 2022
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The chief justice can try to persuade his Supreme Court colleagues to change the outcome of a case but has no direct power over their votes.
—John Fritze, USA TODAY, 26 July 2022
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So as part of his circuit, not in his role of chief justice, Chase presided in Baltimore over the trial.
—Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
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John) Roberts, the chief justice anymore; the conservative bloc now doesn’t need him.
—Alexandra Zayas, ProPublica, 5 May 2022
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Five days ago the governor nominated her to be the next chief justice of the state’s highest court.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2022
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The chief justice’s seat, and two others held by Republicans, are in front of voters this year.
—Deanna Paul, WSJ, 30 July 2022
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The chief justice used his speech to reassure lawyers that the justices remain on good working terms.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2024
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Advertisement But the chief justice did not seek to bridge the partisan divide in the case of Trump vs. United States.
—David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
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