How to Use chief justice in a Sentence

chief justice

noun
  • The outlet searched through dozens of cases where the chief justice was asked to force a judge off of a case.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Roberts serves as the 17th U.S. Supreme Court’s chief justice.
    Sabine Martin, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2024
  • Gants, the court’s first Jewish chief justice, was known as a tireless advocate for racial justice.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • John Marshall, appointed by John Adams, served as chief justice for 34 years.
    The Editors, National Review, 18 July 2024
  • That happened to Roy Moore, a former state chief justice, who was ousted twice for defying federal court orders.
    NBC News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Brunner is running for chief justice of the court next year against Republican Justice Sharon Kennedy.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Brunner is running against Republican Justice Sharon Kennedy in the race for chief justice.
    Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Then, once the attorney's time for argument has ended, each justice has the chance to ask questions in order of seniority, beginning with the chief justice.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2021
  • When the Supreme Court was established in 1790, there were six justices — one chief justice and five associate justices.
    Bo Erickson, Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Kennedy and Brunner are each running next year to become chief justice, as O’Connor can’t seek re-election because of Ohio’s judicial age limits.
    Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2021
  • That has, at times, made the chief justice hard to pin down.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • John Roberts is the 17th chief justice of the United States .
    Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022
  • The chief justice of the Supreme Court presides over that process.
    Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Our new chief justice of the Supreme Court was a woman.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 26 June 2024
  • And that's, just to be clear, pretty rare for a chief justice.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2022
  • Warren Burger, chief justice of the Supreme Court through the ‘70s and ‘80s, bought his books there.
    Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • In Kentucky, a district court judge was among the dead, the state’s chief justice said.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Um, and that’s likely to be our Supreme court, chief justice come next year.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The next step will be for the chief justice to organize a trial.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The chief justice hates when the court is sort of drawn into the mudsling of politics.
    ABC News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • This is not the first time false claims have circulated about the chief justice.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Roberts, the chief justice, issued a rare rebuke that day.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
  • The chief justice is not the boss of Justice Clarence Thomas or any of the associate justices.
    Joan Biskupic, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The chief justice keeps a fairly low profile even by the court’s standards.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
  • 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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