How to Use chief justice in a Sentence

chief justice

noun
  • That has, at times, made the chief justice hard to pin down.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • John Roberts is the 17th chief justice of the United States .
    Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 3 May 2022
  • The chief justice of the Supreme Court presides over that process.
    Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Roberts serves as the 17th U.S. Supreme Court’s chief justice.
    Sabine Martin, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2024
  • The chief justice has tried to make this work, but in the end, the legacy is the court is busted.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 26 May 2022
  • Our new chief justice of the Supreme Court was a woman.
    Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 26 June 2024
  • And that's, just to be clear, pretty rare for a chief justice.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2022
  • She was named the state's first woman chief justice in 2014.
    Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The outlet searched through dozens of cases where the chief justice was asked to force a judge off of a case.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Warren Burger, chief justice of the Supreme Court through the ‘70s and ‘80s, bought his books there.
    Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • In Kentucky, a district court judge was among the dead, the state’s chief justice said.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Um, and that’s likely to be our Supreme court, chief justice come next year.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The next step will be for the chief justice to organize a trial.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The first time that this process was used for the hiring a clerk of the supreme court and court of appeals was in 2018 when PDR was chief justice.
    Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The chief justice hates when the court is sort of drawn into the mudsling of politics.
    ABC News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The court's justices will have to vote again at the start of its next term in January on a chief justice.
    Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2022
  • This is not the first time false claims have circulated about the chief justice.
    Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Five of the nine Supreme Court seats are on the ballot next year, including chief justice.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 30 June 2023
  • Roberts, the chief justice, issued a rare rebuke that day.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
  • The chief justice is not the boss of Justice Clarence Thomas or any of the associate justices.
    Joan Biskupic, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
  • But the chief justice did not seek to bridge the partisan divide in the case of Trump vs. United States.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
  • The chief justice keeps a fairly low profile even by the court’s standards.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Tom Parker, the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, was the lone dissent.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 6 Feb. 2023
  • He later was elected by his peers to be chief justice of the 1st District for 10 years.
    Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The correct solution, the chief justice wrote, would have been to agree to hear the state’s appeal — but not to grant a stay in the meantime.
    Adam Liptak, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • What can a chief justice bring to the U.S. Supreme Court that an associate justice cannot?
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2022
  • That was followed in 1953 by his appointment as chief justice of the Supreme Court.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Instead, the chief justice wrote, Mr. Ross had tried hard to find a rationale for adding the question.
    New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court was herself a Republican.
    Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Many critics on the left said the chief justice had made a colossal error of judgment that will overshadow his career.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024

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