Another Bush Crony Nominated

[Toni KatVixen]

Originally Posted by Linkster

Alex - BTW - even the first Chief Justice in this country - John Jay - was never a judge before sitting on the supreme court - he was President of the Continental Congress and then negotiated the Paris treaty which basically ended the Revolutionary war. And you want to talk about skirting issues - he was nominated by G Washington and 2 days later the senate confirmed him

Yes, but he was also one of the authors of the Federalist Papers arguing for the Consititution, so who better to enforce it?

[Linkster]

Originally Posted by KatVixen

Yes, but he was also one of the authors of the Federalist Papers arguing for the Consititution, so who better to enforce it?

I totally agree although he only wrote 5 articles for the papers - and they werent very enlightening - he also was not very well liked by Americans for his role in the Treaty with Britain as he gave up everything that the revolution was fought for - but he did stick to strict constitutionalism during the three cases the court heard under him. The big problem back then was that the Supreme court was also the court that took the role of all of the present day district courts - and actually it was his refusal to be the Chief Justice a second time that caused the establishment of actual separate District Courts to relieve the burden on the supreme court - they didnt have cars back then so they had to go on horseback to different districts for cases