All Rise for the Mini Chief Justice
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist is not exactly cuddly, but he is a real doll. The impassive visage of the Supreme Court leader is now depicted on a bobble-head figurine.
The doll is the brainchild of the editors at a small legal journal who intend it as an admittedly peculiar tribute to the 78-year-old jurist in what may be his last year on the bench.
“We gambled on the possibility that three decades of being called ‘your honor’ has not left him without a sense of humor about himself,” said Ross E. Davies, editor of Green Bag.
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