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Grace, a career prosecutor with clerkships under New Jersey’s chief justice and a Third Circuit judge, had already risen to lead the office’s criminal division.
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Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2025
However, an assistant attorney general under Nixon (and later Supreme Court chief justice), William Rehnquist, had drafted a memo claiming that the bombing was justified by—wait for it—the commander-in-chief clause of the Constitution.
—Chris Lehmann, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Jonathan Dienst Jonathan Dienst is chief justice contributor for NBC News and chief investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York.
—Tom Winter, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
The chief justice of the nine-member Texas Supreme Court is Jimmy Blacklock, who was appointed to the bench by Abbott in 2018 and was the Texas governor’s general counsel.
—Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
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Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2025
However, an assistant attorney general under Nixon (and later Supreme Court chief justice), William Rehnquist, had drafted a memo claiming that the bombing was justified by—wait for it—the commander-in-chief clause of the Constitution.
—Chris Lehmann, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Jonathan Dienst Jonathan Dienst is chief justice contributor for NBC News and chief investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York.
—Tom Winter, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
The chief justice of the nine-member Texas Supreme Court is Jimmy Blacklock, who was appointed to the bench by Abbott in 2018 and was the Texas governor’s general counsel.
—Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2025
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circuit judge
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In mid-April, the county circuit judge allegedly told immigration agents to head to the chief judge’s office and then allowed Mexican national Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer to use a nonpublic door to aid in escaping arrest, prosecutors said.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
4 Sep. 2025
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Also from Pine Bluff, Humphrey has been a pastor at Allison Memorial Presbyterian Church for 41 years and served as the sixth judicial district circuit judge from 1992 to 2010 and was also an assistant attorney general.—
Daniel McFadin,
Arkansas Online,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Chief justice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chief%20justice. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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