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. Stephen Breyer:

   ( T) Chief Justice John Roberts Court's decisions in Trinity Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza prohibit States from denying aid to religious schools solely because of a school's religious status — that is, its affiliation with or control by a religious organization, but Trinity Lutheran and Espinoza have never said that the Free Exercise Clause prohibits States from withholding funds because of the religious use to which the money will be put.

2. Hakeem Jeffries:

   The Senate can get to the truth, you can get to the truth by calling witnesses who can testify. And any privilege issues can be worked out by the chief justice of Supreme Court.

3. Chuck Schumer:

   There will be a good number of votes. We are willing to do some of those votes tomorrow. Theres no reason we have to do them all tonight and inconvenience the Senate and the Chief Justice [ John Roberts ], but we will not back off on getting votes on all of these amendments.

4. Rand Paul:

   If we are about to try to impeach a president, where is the chief justice? If the accused is no longer president, where is the constitutional power to impeach him? impeachment is for removal from office and the accused here has already left office. Hyper-partisan Democrats are about to drag our great country into the gutter of rancor and vitriol the likes of which has never been seen in our nation's history.

5. Rand Paul:

   When you look at impeaching the president, the Constitution has some very specific requirements. It says when the president is impeached, the chief justice shall preside, and to me, this is one of the shocking things. When we showed up and we found out that yes, Chuck Schumer had called Justice Roberts -- and this hasn't been reported widely, but he did -- and Justice Roberts said heck, no, I'm not going to cross the street because you're not impeaching the president.