Today in Supreme Court History: November 3, 1845

11/3/1845: Chief Justice Edward Douglass White's birthday.

Chief Justice Edward Douglass White

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[Seamus]

He's been canceled. He served in the Confederate army, so every thing he did for the rest of his life was irredeemably tainted. The Knights of Columbus council in Arlington, Virginia that was named for him (shortly after his death) renamed itself a year or so ago because he was so bad. He's a non-person now. (And we should probably dump the rule of reason in antitrust law, since it was articulated by Justice White, and is therefore probably racist.)

[Syd Henderson]

He was also in the Plessy majority (as an associate justice).

[Cal Cetín]

Let's check good ol' Wikipedia and see who voted for that decision...

Henry B. Brown, joined by Melville Fuller, Stephen J. Field, Horace Gray, George Shiras Jr., Edward D. White, and Rufus W. Peckham.

Field and, to an extent, Gray, are fairly significant figures.