[Non-Sequitur]

There could never have been any doubt that he would parrot Lincoln with every line of every opinion he might be called on to write on the conduct and legality of the war...

Every opinion? Ex Parte Milligan was a unanimous decision against an administration policy. How did that one slip through?

[lentulusgracchus]

Every opinion? Ex Parte Milligan was a unanimous decision against an administration policy. How did that one slip through?

Lincoln was dead? Chase wasn't going to jail for waging war on States?

The exception that proves the rule?

[nolu chan]

[n-s] Ex Parte Milligan was a unanimous decision against an administration policy. How did that one slip through?

Chase did the best he could. He wrote the opinion for the four concurring justices who found the tribunals UNLAWFUL as a violation of Federal statute, but not UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Evidence was provided that proved beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty that the statutory requirements had not been complied with.