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Awww, come on!! You're only up to 1864. Tell us about some of the 'important' decisions he made after the tyrant appointed him to SCOTUS

I can't read your mind. Why don't you tell us what's on your mind? And, what do Chief Justice Chase's decisions have to do with Georgia's new state flag?

19 posted on 05/06/2003 2:14:37 PM PDT by Grand Old Partisan (You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)

Ran across this tidbit last night:

'For years now Stanton had worried about what the civil courts would do in connection with the wartime emergency arrests and trials of civilians by the military, and the property confiscations performed by soldiers obeying his, the President's, and Congress's orders. In 1864. the Supreme Court had squirmed out of having to take on this hot issue, when it denied Vallandigham judicial review of the sentence a military commission had imposed on him. One of the major reasons Lincoln had appointed Chase to the Supreme Court was that, as Dana phrased it, "if any law is needed at this special juncture he will make it."'

44 posted on 05/07/2003 4:44:26 AM PDT by 4CJ ('No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.' - Alexander Hamilton)