How to Use chief justice in a Sentence

chief justice

noun
  • What has the chief justice said in past years?
    — William Morris, Des Moines Register, 14 Jan. 2026
  • And that's, just to be clear, pretty rare for a chief justice.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 27 June 2022
  • Um, and that’s likely to be our Supreme court, chief justice come next year.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The chief justice decides whether or not they get asked and how they get asked and what sequence.
    — NBC News, 19 Jan. 2020
  • The next step will be for the chief justice to organize a trial.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 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
  • The chief justice of the Supreme Court presides over that process.
    — Farnoush Amiri, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • This is not the first time false claims have circulated about the chief justice.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In Kentucky, a district court judge was among the dead, the state’s chief justice said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The chief justice, too, did not single out the president.
    — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Hudson had served as chief justice since 2023.
    — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 19 May 2026
  • The chief justice hates when the court is sort of drawn into the mudsling of politics.
    — ABC News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The chief justice has been at the center of the effort to limit the use of race in public life.
    — Mark Sherman, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The chief justice sided with the court’s three liberals in a few key cases.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Yet the Supreme Court, including the chief justice, seems not to care.
    — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 24 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Abrahamson spent 43 years on the bench, 19 as the chief justice.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • 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 chief justice speaks first, followed by the rest of the court in order of seniority.
    — The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • Young is a former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
    — Bloomberg.com, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The chief justice of the Supreme Court will act as judge (right now that’s John Roberts).
    — Pete Gelling, Quartz, 24 Sep. 2019
  • And at the same time, every chief justice of the Supreme Court was a slaveholder.
    — NBC News, 18 June 2020
  • John Roberts is the 17th chief justice of the United States .
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 3 May 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
  • And just the other day, she was named chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Michał Laskowski, a judge and spokesman for the Supreme Court, says the chief justice will not back down.
    — Kristen Chick, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2018
  • Among the most effusive statements of praise came from the chief justice of the state Supreme Court.
    — Darrel Rowland, The Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2020
  • This year the chief justice prevailed with different coalitions.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Our chief justice correspondent, Pierre Thomas, joins me now for more.
    — ABC News, 21 Dec. 2025

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