Chapter 4

Chief Justice Rehnquist was a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan, and his quip about his performance during the Clinton impeachment came from a reference to the House of Lords in one of his favorite Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, Iolanthe.

The study of the Chief Justice's multiple duties was presented at a 2005 symposium on “the Chief Justice and the Institutional Judiciary,” sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, which devoted its June 2006 issue to the papers presented at the symposium. See Judith Resnik and Lane Dilg, “Responding to a Democratic Deficit: Limiting the Powers and the Term of the Chief Justice of the United States,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 154 (2006): 1575–1664.

The quotation from Salmon Chase is from Alpheus Thomas Mason's article, “The Chief Justice of the United States: Primus Inter Pares,” Journal of Public Law 17 (1968): 20–60. The later quotation about the “human factor” in a chief justice's influence is also from this article.

Justice Kennedy's letter to Justice Blackmun, and other correspondence among the justices relating to Lynch v. Donnelly, is in Box 586, Folder 6 of the Harry A. Blackmun Collection in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.

Chief Justice Taft's article on the Judiciary Act of 1925 was “The Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court Under the Act of February 13, 1925, ” Yale Law Journal 35 (1925): 1–12.