Synonyms for chief justice
chief jus·tice

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1. Chief Justicenoun

   Synonyms:
   CJ

2. Chief Justicenoun

   The senior presiding justice of a court.

   Synonyms:
   CJ

Princeton's WordNet

1. chief justicenoun

   the judge who presides over a supreme court

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1. • Judge
   • Law

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1. Vijay Jojo Chokal Ingam:

   We did fight a Civil War to eliminate racial discrimination, and that’s why it’s a matter of considerable concern. chief Justice Roberts cut through all the distractions and exposed Harvard for their racism and hypocrisy.

2. Stuart Grant:

   Leo Strine as chief justice has had more influence in a short time on the Supreme Court than probably any chief justice in Delaware, maybe any jurist for the amount of time he has spent on the court.

3. United States:

   Citizenship was a central question left open by the original Constitution, at the time it was written, the Constitution assumed citizenship, but it didn't provide any rules for it. In the infamous Dred Scott decision, the Chief Justice said African Americans can't be citizens of the United States and' had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.'.

4. Steve Vladeck:

   It's not hard to imagine some justices wanting to take this case now, others wanting to deny it altogether, and today's result emerging only over time as a middle ground that they could all endorse -- at least publicly. And it's hard to imagine that Chief Justice John Roberts wasn't at the heart of such a compromise.

5. Samuel Alito:

   A lot of Chief Justice John Roberts brief and all the other briefs that have been filed against Texas in both of these cases suggest that we should issue a rule that applied just to this case, when we decide a case, the rule that we establish should apply to everybody who's similarly situated.