[cotton1706]

“LOL. Cleveland appointed Edward Douglass White, who was a Confederate soldier and KKK member. He was a hardcore racist who voted in favor of Plessy. Is that what Chuck wants on the court?”

And to add to your point, William Howard Taft and the Republican Senate ELEVATED White to be Chief Justice in 1910.

So a GOP Senate confirmed a Democrat-appointed justice to Chief. But since a Republican nominated White to be chief, that doesn’t count to Todd.

[gleeaikin]

What changed so the party of Lincoln was elevating a Confederate, KKK racist to Chief Justice? I’m surprised Todd missed that one.

[Verginius Rufus]

White was one of three Supreme Court justices after the Civil War who had been a Confederate soldier--not surprising since he was a white man living in Louisiana at the time of the war. The evidence that he was in the KKK is thin and apparently is mainly a report that he told the producer of "Birth of a Nation" that he had been in the KKK.

He was the second Chief Justice to have been a Catholic. Roger Taney was the first.