Today in Supreme Court History: March 12, 1889

3/12/1889: Justice John Campbell dies.

Comments

[Dan Schiavetta]

Strangled by his neck beard.

[DaivdBehar]

Poster boy for impeaching Justices for their lawless, dumbass, catastrophic decisions. In this case, he shoild have hanged too.

[Queen Amalthea]

Behar is the kind of deeply disturbed individual attracted to and emboldened by Trump. Take your Seroquel Davie!

[Michael D]

I think Campbell siding with the majority in Dred Scott validates Behar’s statement. Your response almost sounds like a defense of the decision with your knee-jerk reaction to his comment.

[Cal Cetín]

He's famous for joining the Dred Scott decision.

Also for trying to mediate between Secretary Seward and the rebel authorities about avoiding a collision at Fort Sumter.

I don't think either of these initiatives worked out.

[F.D. Wolf]

There were Confederate dead-enders, most prominently Jefferson Davis, who wanted to hold out. They believed (probably accurately) that the North could not possibly occupy such a massive territory indefinitely, the South could maintain an insurgent, guerilla war indefinitely, and that the North would eventually determine it was not worth it and leave.

Others, of course, wanted peace and reconciliation. The most prominent of these was Robert E. Lee. He was really the man Southerners respected and followed, not Davis. But the other two most important members of this faction may have been Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens and Assistant Secretary of War John Campbell, who made frequent peace overtures throughout the War.

[Cal Cetín]

Ah yes, he had a cameo in the Lincoln movie, he was on the Confederate peace commission.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/characters/nm0411857?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t56

[F.D. Wolf]

I have meant to watch that, but have not got around to it.

[Cal Cetín]

It's surprisingly good.

[DaivdBehar]

Hi, Queenie. You know I respect your feelings. What is your preferred pronoun?

This Justice violated the Missouri Compromise that kept the peace 30 years. He abrogated a ratified international treaty with Canada, that was supreme over even the constitution. It established the borders and prohibited extensions of slavery in the USA. USA. USA. He violated Article I Section 1 giving all lawmaking powers to Congress. He set off the Civil War. You should not have so much misconduct and cause so much damage and not expect to hang, on the spot. He was immunized by the vile lawyer profession, 1000 times more toxic than organized crime. No organized crime, homicidal maniac caused 600000 deaths in 4 years, ever.

[MoreCurious]

Hadn't scissors been invented by 1889?

[Dan Schiavetta]

Also pioneered the eyebrow beard.

[DaivdBehar]

Damn. It blocked the upper inner quadrant of his visual fields. Impressive.

[Dilan Esper]

He had a significant role in the Eggnog Riot, one of the lesser known, but funny, incidents in US history.