Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wore this gold-striped robe when he presided over the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999. Rehnquist had added the stripes years earlier after seeing the Gilbert and Sullivan opera Iolanthe in which the character Lord Chancellor wears a robe adorned in gold. The chief justice's robe is now on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Jeffrey Rosen discusses the story behind the robe and his love for Gilbert and Sullivan in last week's We the People podcast episode.

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