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Today in Supreme Court History: May 8, 1884
5/8/1884: President Harry S. Truman's birthday. He would make four appointments to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Vinson, and Justices Burton, Clark, and Minton.
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Once again Josh misspells Clark’s name. This has been pointed out over and over. The kid just doesn’t care.
Elitist liberals, with their fancy standard English, reality-based facts, and literacy, do not appear to be the target audience for Profs. Blackman and Barnett in this commercial endeavor.
Clark started slow but he opened his mind up later. Vinson and Minton were not great thinkers. Burton was ok.
Truman was an outsider from humble origins and not particularly smart or deep (though he had greatness of character).
I’m not impressed with Truman. Let’s start with how he screwed up and got us into Korea — and then it took Eisenhower to get us out, except that we STILL aren’t out.
“I’m not impressed with Truman.”
Of course not. Because he was Truman (D). But he’d be in awe of you, Special Ed.
It would be impossible to stand by after South Korea got invaded. It wasn’t long before Communist forces were in control of almost all the country.
Eisenhower can’t be credited with much except tacitly ending irresponsible Republican fire breathing. He visited Korea and learned that the Truman people had been right — the war was unwinnable. And then Stalin died and the men who took over reversed course and agreed to negotiations.
“Never get involved in a land war in Asia” is good advice that was unfortunately ignored by future Presidents Johnson and Bush.
Hi, Artie. You live in a Dem hellscape, don’t you? Prime real estate of great wealth. Voted Dem. Now a shithole.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9557069/Residents-Los-Angeles-Venice-say-world-famous-beach-boardwalk-crippled-crime.html
It would be a fun exercise to rate the average quality (measured by ability and impact rather than whether they vote our preferred way) of Supreme Court appointments by President. Truman might rank rather low.
Sorry meant to respond to you, not Rev. Predictable.
Speak for yourself.
What, exactly, does Truman having a birthday in May have to do with Supreme Court history? Would he have appointed a different number of Justices if his birthday came in February or August?
Truman was the employer of 4 Justices.
Not how that works.
Truman was more betrayed by these appointees than Trump was.