QUESTIONS:
1. President Bush last week used the Taft-Hartley Act to stop the maritime strike on the West Coast. When was the last time Taft-Hartley was invoked?
2. The Supreme Court convened to hear cases last week. What two chief justices in this century had earlier served as a state Republican Party chairman?
3. Who was the last chief justice to have previously served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court?
4. Who was the last chief justice to have served as a judge in a lower court?
5. Who was the last chief justice to have served in the President’s cabinet?
ANSWERS:
1. President Carter invoked it in 1978 to try to stop a coal strike.
2. Earl Warren, who had been Republican chairman of California, and Warren Burger, who had been Republican chairman of Minnesota.
3. Present Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who was an associate justice from 1971 until being named chief justice in 1986.
4. Warren Burger, who had been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
5. Fred M. Vinson, who had been secretary of the treasury from 1945 until he was named chief justice in 1946.
