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It's Easy Being Chief

Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2005, at 11:44 AM ET

Who are these people?

For the last three years, Dahlia Lithwick and Walter Dellinger have weighed in together about the major cases that come down at the end of the Supreme Court term. This year we add Charles Fried and Tim Wu to the mix.

A word on the Rehnquist resignation: Why on earth would the chief want to resign if, every June, he gets to hear what a great chief he's been?

Tim

It's Easy Being Chief

Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2005, at 11:44 AM ET
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Walter Dellinger is an attorney in Washington, D.C. and the Douglas B. Maggs professor of law at Duke. Charles Fried is a professor of law at Harvard University. He was U.S. solicitor general from 1985 to 1989 and has been a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Dahlia Lithwick is a Slate senior editor. Tim Wu is a regular Slate contributor and a fellow at the New America Foundation.
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