Posted on 02/09/2017 3:20:37 PM PST by JOHN ADAMS
In July 1902, confident that he had found a judge opposed to "big railroad men and other members of large corporations," Theodore Roosevelt named Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as his first appointee to the Supreme Court, delighted with a choice that their fellow Republican, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, called "our kind right through."
Twenty months (and many convivial dinners at the White House) later, in the middle of an election year, Justice Holmes voted against his progressive president in the biggest railroad trust-busting case of the time, United States v. Northern Securities. "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that," an enraged Roosevelt declared.
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As far as I’m concerned, it is. Does the 1st amendment not apply to POTUS?
Congress needs to bring articles of impeacment on the guilty judges and remove them now...it is long overdue imho
Article I, Section 3, Clause 7: “Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States; but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.”
Didn’t TR describe someone as having the “backbone of a chocolate eclair?”
The Headline Quote doesn’t match the Article Quote.
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