sourcery wrote:
“The validity of each and every Supreme Court decision issued wherein Chief Justice Gray either wrote the majority opinion, or which was a 5/4 decision, depends utterly on the whether or not the President who appointed him (Chester Arthur) was Constitutionally President.”
First, that’s a laughable bit of self-delusion. Second, U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark was decided 6 to 2.
But Justice Gray wrote the majority opinion. Which he could not Constitutionally do, if he was not actually appointed by an actual President.