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Today in Supreme Court History: April 4, 1861
4/4/1861: Justice John McLean dies.
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He should have been hanged for treason. Dred Scott was the first expression of judicial review. It violated a law that prevented war for 30 years, a ratified international treaty with Canada on the border boundaries that prohibited the spread of slavery, and the constitution’s Article I Section 1, giving law making power to the Congress. It also set off the Civil War, an all lawyer dumbass, national catastrophe. We are still not fully recovered from it, with the lawyer tyrannical imposition of the delusions of race whores on our nation.
McLean dissented from Dred Scott, but still has accomplice liability. He did not do enough to stop the traitors.
https://famous-trials.com/dredscott/2545-scott-v-sandford-the-dissent
“Put mind in gear before engaging mouth.”
Thank you. I did regret my comment.
Ok forgiven
Wasn’t that the guy from “Die Hard?”