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Today in Supreme Court History: March 4, 1861
3/4/1861: President Abraham Lincoln's inauguration.

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The lawyer always says, Best President. Lincoln was an LGBTQ lawyer, of course. He was the most catastrophic President, in a class alone, of badness. He was 100 times worse than Carter class bad Presidents like Obama, dunderhead lawyer Franklin Roosevelt, and Buchanan. Lincoln killed 600000 Americans, like 2 million in today's population. He invented the income tax, the draft, industrial grade prisons. All other nations, except Haiti, ended slavery peacefully. Mr. "Please Do Not Sue Your Neighbor" chose war over several alternatives offered to him. He possibly had a mental illness.
To his credit he issued an arrest warrant for Chief Justice Tanney but took it back from the hand of a federal marshal, after persuasion by a lawyer in the room. He would have hanged Tanney as would have been proper. He arrested judges on the bench for issuing writs of habeus corpus to Confederate spies. Soldiers pistol whipped these judges when they did not move fast enough. He then threw them in federal prisons with terrible conditions. That was good, and to his credit.
King v. Burwell's argument date was March 4.
Justice Davis left the court on March 4.
Lincoln's inauguration seems an odd choice.
OK, Artie. That is lawyer talk. Thank you.
Abraham Lincoln - liberator or tyrant?
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Try lawyer dumbass, gay psycho, good pals with Karl Marx, fan of Marxism, dirty Commie dumbass. Most lethal lawyer in US history until the current Democrat lockdown.
Naturally, the lawyer consensus is that Lincoln is the greatest President, who saved our country.