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Like his gold stripes on his robes, (the late) Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s writing about (state) sovereignty was ostentatious and more reflective of the ancient British monarchy than our modern republic.

— U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, in his new memoir, about Rehnquist’s positions on states’ obligations to comply with federal law