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
  • The chief justice of the Supreme Court oversees the trial.
    — Nicholas Fandos, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2021
  • Roberts serves as the 17th U.S. Supreme Court’s chief justice.
    — Sabine Martin, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2024
  • Opinion: The chief justice is to blame for the Supreme Court’s free fall.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Kavanaugh and the chief justice are friends from way back.
    — Hope Reese, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
  • She was named the state's first woman chief justice in 2014.
    — Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024
  • She was named the state's first woman chief justice in 2014.
    — Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2024
  • On this issue, the chief justice’s was not the only voice.
    — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Abrahamson spent 43 years on the bench, 19 as the chief justice.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Among the most effusive statements of praise came from the chief justice of the state Supreme Court.
    — Darrel Rowland, The Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2020
  • And at the same time, every chief justice of the Supreme Court was a slaveholder.
    — NBC News, 18 June 2020
  • Um, and that’s likely to be our Supreme court, chief justice come next year.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
  • And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling.
    — Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Young is a former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Sep. 2020
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 30 June 2023
  • The chief justice did not appear to say anything in response.
    — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 23 Mar. 2025
  • While the Roberts court has repeatedly stood up to the Trump administration's actions, the president and his supporters haven't always viewed the chief justice as an adversary.
    — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2025

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