Was Rehnquist hated by the liberals

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

My mother as a younger lawyer wore a black armband to work the day the Senate confirmed Rehnquist as Chief Justice.

Chief Justice Rehnquist ran the Court in a generally fair, scrupulous, competent way that commanded wide respect, and in that sense he was no longer "hated by the liberals" exactly, but he did not moderate in terms of his views. He was content to be, or at least resigned to being, in ideological minorities in many of the sorts of cases that Roberts clearly chafes at not being able to control the opinions for.