This is a pic of a young Milton Berle.
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.
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.
This is a very symbolic move , the meaning of which is not lost on the Pro-Life Movement. Susan B. Anthony was a champion of Women’s Rights, and she was also ANTI-Abortion. This causes cognitive dissonance in the current (alleged) Women’s Rights organizations.
Also, Susan B. Anthony was not afraid of being arrested in order to vote. This is a slap in the face of the demoncraps, who are trying to say that voting in person is dangerous due to COVID-19. SBA wasn’t afraid of arrest and imprisonment, but you guys are afraid of a virus?
What looks like a “silly” or meaningless pardon is actually quite fraught with meaning.
One of the largest Pro-Life Organizations takes its name from Susan B. Anthony.
Once again, President Trump thinks many moves ahead.
Just my humble opinion, but I think these are valid points that may have steered President Trump’s decision.