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Do you think that I really would be here in front of the Judiciary Committee of the United States to testify on the qualifications of the Chief Justice after 27 years of trying lawsuits.

If I wasn't absolutely sure that I interviewed Bill Wrenquist because voters pointed him out.

In the summer of 1986, the Senate held hearings to confirm William Wrenquist as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

And some of the most dramatic moments of the hearings didn't have anything to do with his previous

14 years as an Associate Justice on the bench.

Instead, it was about something that happened years before he was even a judge,

when he was living in Phoenix, Arizona in the 1960s.

We saw Mr Renquist drive up.

There was a group of young Republicans.

I saw him there and I saw him approach at least one voter and if my memory is correct two.

Witnesses say they saw William Runquist, who was a well-known attorney at the time,

at polling places in the early 1960s. The witnesses said

Rehnquist was there to challenge the eligibility of some voters.

He approached the line on the outside of the polling place.

He said, pardon me, are you qualified voter to this black gentleman?

And the man said yes.

And he said, do you have any credentials to indicate that you are the man said no

and he said well then the perhaps there's a question whether or not you qualified

was he harassing voters yeah he harassed one right in front of me.

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