Today in Supreme Court History: April 18, 1775

4/18/1775: Paul Revere's ride.

Comments

[Dan Schiavetta]

I didn't know he passed by the Supreme Court building to spread the news. Good catch!

[Michael P]

You never heard the saying "one if by shadow docket, two if by emergency order"?

[DaivdBehar]

American Revolution. Yet another catastrophic lawyer mistake. It caused the Civil War for nothing, a tax increase. That increase went to the costly military fighting the Indians to protect the real estate assets of rich lawyers. Dumbasses.

[DaivdBehar]

These lawyers did not inherit wealth. Did not invest in businesses. They grew wealthy from their worthless ren seeking fees, as they do today.

[SMP0328]

American Revolution. Yet another catastrophic lawyer mistake.

Never thought I would meet a Loyalist.

[loki13]

I can't see the comment you're replying to, but thanks to you reply, I know who it is. Because of course.

I mean ... to quote Anchorman, when it comes to that commenter, at this point, you can't even mad, it's amazing! Out of all the single-minded trolling commenters, he is the trolling-est!

It would be like someone going to a car blog, and then ... day after day, post after post, just regurgitating that cars were the worst thing ever, and responsible for all the evils in the world from the destruction of the dinosaurs to the assassination of JFK to the invasion of Ukraine.

[Dan Schiavetta]

I can deduce who it is also; like you, I muted him a long time ago.

The DSM-V code for his condition is 300.3.

[Queen Amalthea]

David is what we used to call (with no insult) mildly retarded. What's interesting about him is that he's so drawn to modern conservatism.

[DaivdBehar]

That's just a personal remark. It is irrelevant to an argument. You are also calling me insane, which is from the KGB Handbook on dissenters. Have a blessed day. Enjoy the legal system we have.

[Krychek_2]

I don't know that you're insane, but your complete fixation on the legal profession is certainly starting to look like a neurosis. You're starting to remind me of the old math joke about pi is seeing a psychiatrist because he's irrational and he goes on and on and on.

[DaivdBehar]

KryKry, You just want to be left alone to make your $trillion and to return nothing of value, indeed to return toxicity 1000 times worse than organized crime. You need to repent. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[DaivdBehar]

Your profession, the lawyer profession, are the worst people in this country, and need to be stopped to save our nation.

[Krychek_2]

Just as soon as I make my trillion I'll let you know.

[David Nieporent]

You need to know the secret handshake.

[Cal Cetín]

"You're starting to remind me of the old math joke about pi is seeing a psychiatrist because he's irrational and he goes on and on and on."

I actually laughed at that one.

[DaivdBehar]

Every self stated goal of every law subject is in utter failure. Its only success? They make $trillion in worthless rent seeking make work procedures. We are left with sky high crime, unenforceable promises, the destruction of the American family, the elimination of American shipping, the eradication of manufacturing, massive criminality overtaking the internet, name it.

[DaivdBehar]

Had we remained a British colony, slavery would have ended by law in 1833, enforced by a sheriff, not by the mass slaughter of 750000 people.

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

Only if nothing else had changed. Only if the existence of so many slaveowners had sat still and quietly acquiesced, and all the cotton users had sat still and quietly acquiesced in what both saw as the pending ruination of the cotton and textile industry.

[SMP0328]

You can't know that. It's like any time-travel story. Change one detail from the past and you end up with a different present. Marty McFly prevented a Peeping Tom from being hit by a car, almost resulting in him and his siblings never being born. If the British Empire attempted to end slavery in the Southern colonies, they likely would have revolted. We can't know what the outcome would have been from that revolution.

[DaivdBehar]

Not really speculation about alternative history. The entire world ended slavery peacefully, including all over the British Empire. Only Haiti and the lawyer run USA needed a devastating war.

[defaultdotxbe]

The entire world ended slavery peacefully outsourced slavery to the USA and Haiti

FTFY (you might want to Google "triangle trade")

[defaultdotxbe]

The idea that remaining a British colony wouldn't simply have resulted in a civil war in 1833 rather than 1860 is even more naive than assuming the British would have even attempted to abolish slavery in 1833 in the first place, had we still been a colony

[Bored Lawyer]

There have been worse. Some of these are almost parodies.

"On this day, the dog of an obscure 19th century justice you never heard of died. Said justice was heartbroken."

[Jimmy the Dane]

The modern day equivalent will be "the woke are coming, the woke are coming!"

[Queen Amalthea]

Jimmy, 90% of the 'woke' are just people who might point out when you're being an asshole

[defaultdotxbe]

And 90% of *those* people think everyone is always an asshole (and always wants to point it out)

[Jimmy the Dane]

And those woke people also think everything is racist too, including 2+2=4.

[DaivdBehar]

Hi, Queenie. Zero tolerance for woke. Woke is servant of the Chinese Commie Party, spewing stale criticism of the US by Mao from the 1960's.

[Cal Cetín]

Paul Revere rode light, just him and his horsie and a quart of beer.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

If this is what right-wingers offer as scholarship, the liberal-libertarian mainstream’s continuing control of high-level academia seems assured

Mid-level academia, too

But the clingers will always have Hillsdale, Bob Jones, Ouachita Baptist, Liberty, Ave Maria, Wheaton, and the like to teach nonsense, suppress science, flout academic freedom, impose censorship, and produce the next generations of obsolete, half-educated, conservative yokels.

[DaivdBehar]

Artie. The education at those places is more aligned with reality than in the Commie treason indoctrination camps you espouse. Those vile institutions should be de-exempted, defunded, de-accredited, and shut down. Their assets must be seized in civil forfeiture. Their responsible officials should be arrested for tax fraud, tried and sentenced to long prison sentences.

You yourself need to resign and to interview your diverse replacement. Until you do, you woke abomination, you need to STFU.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Dusky v. United States, decided April 18, 1960: criminal defendant has right to a competency hearing before trial.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Gonzalez v. Carhart, decided April 18, 2007: upheld “partial birth abortion” ban.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Gibson v. Missouri, decided April 18, 1896: Missouri Constitution of 1890 requiring literacy tests, etc. for jury service with grandfather clause not in violation of the 14A because not facially discriminatory.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Welch v. United States, decided April 18, 2016: Johnson v. United States, which defined what constitutes a “violent offense” under the Armed Career Criminal Act so as to deprive defendant of the right to own a gun, applies retroactively.

[Dan Schiavetta]

This is fun, and I’m learning things in the process.

[Dan Schiavetta]

J.E.B. v. Alabama, decided April 18, 1994: can’t make peremptory challenges to jurors based solely on gender.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Heitz v. Jenkins, decided April 18, 1995: Fair Debt Collection Practices Act penalties apply to creditor’s lawyers (Todd Zywicki probably didn’t like this decision).

[Dan Schiavetta]

James v. Kentucky, decided April 18, 1984: trial judge on request of criminal defendant must tell jury not to draw adverse inference from failure to testify, whether the request is for an “instruction” or an “admonition”.

In accordance with the Mercy Rule, I will stop at this point.

[wolfefan]

Thanks, Captain. That was both interesting and instructive!