[Non-Sequitur]

Why do you suppose that so stalwart, so thick a pillar of Lincolnism as Salmon P. Chase, whom Lincoln put on the Supreme Court precisely to write the fictitious "opinion" of the Court in the Texas vs. White case that declared the acts of the People null and void during the Recent Unpleasantness, if they ran counter to the will of Lincoln and his faction...

Texas first filed their suit against White, Chiles, and the other defendants in February 1867 - almost two years after Lincoln was murdered. Was he psychic?

...never got HIS official, scholarly, detailed and dispositive biography written?

John Niven has documented Chief Justice Chase's life in a detailed, scholarly, and dare I say it, dispositive manner. His "Salmon P. Chase: A Biography" was published in 2002 and he has edited several volumes of his personal papers. There have been other biographies of the man published as well.

One almost wishes there had been a biography written of his opposite number, the confederate chief justice, Chief Justice...oh, wait a minute. Scratch that.

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One almost wishes there had been a biography written of his opposite number, the confederate chief justice, Chief Justice...oh, wait a minute. Scratch that.

I think that one went over their heads...