Posted on 08/18/2020 6:32:53 AM PDT by rxsid
We’ll have to agree to disagree. I believe the 17th was the biggest blunder. It ushered in all that is wrong with this country.
Judge Henry R. Selden - a Republican defended her at the trial. And apparently gave her advice before her actions.
Interesting that she used the 14th Amendment as her lever. She was probably correct !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_R._Selden
Henry Rogers Selden (October 14, 1805 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut – September 18, 1885) was an American lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1857 to 1858. He defended Susan B. Anthony in her 1873 trial for unlawfully voting as a woman.[1]
Life
He was the son of Calvin Selden and Phebe (Ely) Selden. Grandson of Ezra Selden, Connecticut Legislature, and Elizabeth Rogers, his wife. Great-grandson of Col. Samuel Selden, Colonial Army, and Deborah Dudley, his wife. Ezra Selden and Calvin Selden assisted in establishing American Independence. Ezra Selden was a member of the Connecticut Legislature twenty years. Calvin Selden, his son, was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army.[2]
He moved to Rochester, New York, in 1825 to study law in the firm of Addison Gardiner and Selden’s brother Samuel L. Selden. He was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice in Clarkson, New York.
On September 25, 1834, Selden married Laura Anne Baldwin at Clarkson, and they had three sons and two daughters, among them George Baldwin Selden, who became the first person to be granted a patent for the automobile.
Selden became the case reporter for the New York State Court of Appeals in 1851. Originally a Democrat, he became an abolitionist and founding member of the New York Republican Party in 1856, and was elected Lieutenant Governor that November. In 1858, Yale College conferred the degree of LL.D. on him. He returned to Rochester in 1859. He was a Delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention.
In July 1862, Henry R. Selden was appointed a judge of the New York Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother Samuel. In November 1863, he was elected to succeed himself for an eight-year term, but resigned on January 2, 1865. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Monroe Co., 2nd D.) in 1866.
In 1870, he was nominated by the Republican Party for Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, but was defeated by Democrat Sanford E. Church. In 1872, Selden was a delegate to the national convention of the Liberal Republican Party in Cincinnati. Partisan bickering there led him to retire from politics. He spent the latter portion of the year and the first half of 1873 involved in Anthony’s case, for which he never billed Anthony. Selden retired from the practice of law in 1879.
He was buried near Anthony at the Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester.
Selden, New York is named for him.
For all on this thread, this is also raises a discussion of proper protesting. Trump can now talk about the current situation and compare it.
She protested FOR something, a very clear goal. Current protesting is just destruction.
This is strategy, not just a token gesture.
Agree.
White
It’s a “free money” move.
Now Trump will be the one recorded in history as pardoning Sue, when it would have been so easy for the self-proclaimed “party of women’s rights” to do but didn’t. Just one more sharp stick in the eye for Democrats, always promising things for the oppressed yet never actually following thru.
Given the timing, I suspect that's Trump's intention. To right a wrong while stimulating thought on why Dems hadn't bothered to do it.
Bwah hah hah hah hah!
#TRUMP4EVA
I think that is the point. First, Jack Johnson. Now, Susan B. Anthony.
Where were Obama and the Democrats?
Great. Now maybe we can now have a day to honor Shirley Temple.
Trump is trolling the tantruming left. This is hilarious.
This may be a big “yawn” to a lot of us, but he’s had the enemedia going nuts, trying to figure out who ‘Orange Man Bad’ would pardon. This is Trump majorly trolling the Left ... some of whom will now need more duct tape for their heads or a fire extinguisher for their hair. LOL.
Pres. Trump is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
That would be great too. Through her marriage to Black, Temple (now known as Shirley Temple Black) became active in Republican politics. The couple campaigned on behalf of the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket in 1950s and lived in Washington, D.C. for a time. In 1967, Temple Black even ran for Congress herself, running on a platform of support for the Vietnam War; she lost to a more moderate Republican.
He should pardon Steve Stockman. The mindset behind his prosecution is the reason we are afflicted with so many terrified and ineffectual RINOs.
Yes agreed, I get that it is mostly symbolic but it be fun to hear the teeth gnashing of the MSM
Trump taking a clue from the Democrats who are masters at pandering that a little pandering for the women’s vote during election season doesn’t hurt.
You knew he copiously used the words “phenomenal” and “amazing,” but you are fine with those ingratiating words—words which mean something, yet nothing but flattery. Why can’t you see this is the same? Liberals and mushy moderates love such empty gestures and they don’t cost a thing.
Live with it.
I SO agree with that! :-)
Not true. Many women held elected office before becoming eligible to vote in 1920. These elected women representatives voted for the amendment.
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