Chief Justice Rehnquist Released From Hospital

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http://www.komotv.com/stories/37956.htm

Chief Justice Rehnquist Released From Hospital

July 14, 2005

By KOMO Staff & News Services

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ailing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was discharged Thursday after two nights in the hospital for treatment of a fever.

The 80-year-old Rehnquist, who has thyroid cancer, had been taken by ambulance to Virginia Hospital Center on Tuesday for tests and observation. Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said he was released and at home around midday Thursday.

The health setback added new intrigue to the rampant guessing game about his retirement prospects. Rehnquist has been on the Supreme Court 33 years.

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"This hospitalization has to shake his faith a little bit," said Stephen Wermiel, an American University law professor who specializes in the Supreme Court.

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[Deep13]

1. ...and taken to the morgue.

This is worse than the pope's death-watch.

[dxdem]

2. O'Connor caught me off guard...

but it seems to me that he REALLY doesn't want to go anywhere.