Remember Willian Rehnquist? Nominated by Ronald Reagan in 1986 to the post of Chief Justice, Rehnquist presided over the steady conservative transformation of the US Supreme Court. He served as Chief Justice until his death in 2005.
FBI documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request show that Rehnquist spent the last decades of his life heavily addicted to sedatives. The FBI invesitgation reveals he was so addicted that he suffered paranoid delusions when he stopped taking the drugs. In an attempted withdrawal in 1981, Rehnquist accused the CIA of plotting against him. He also told doctors that the designs on the curtains were moving. During this episode doctors found Rehnquist in the hospital lobby wearing only his pyjamas and trying to escape.
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IF you read Hunter S Thompson's Generation of Swine, he notes Rehnquist had a problem with prescription drugs in his past, as did Reagan.
I also saw journalists say on CNN that they thought Rehnquist had possibly been blackmailed - hmmm.
About that 2000 election where Rehnquist declared Bush the winner ...hmmm.
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