Deaths, slow or massive, were the news in 2005.

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    • Subject Terms:
      SCHIAVO, Terri, 1963-2005; REHNQUIST, William H., 1924-2005
    • Abstract:
      This article reports on the impact of several deaths in 2005. U.S. conservatives used the case of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged Florida woman, as a proxy for their battle against activist judges, who they said were imposing a liberal agenda on the nation. Another death-- that of Chief Justice William Rehnquist--reopened the battle over the judiciary and galvanized religious conservatives when John Roberts, Harriet Miers and later Samuel Alito were nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court.