[Tau Food]

Well, part of the genius of John Marshall was his selection of the Marybury case to claim the Court's power to declare a law unconstitutional. Because the court decided against Marbury and in favor of the Jefferson administration, there was nothing for anyone to do following the case. Jefferson could not refuse to abide by the ruling because the decision was technically in his favor (the Court decided that Jefferson's Secretary of State did not have to deliver to Marbury a commission making him a justice of the peace).

So, all President Jefferson could do was sit and watch. And seethe. He really disliked Chief Justice Marshall.

[Nero Germanicus]

Jefferson disliked a lot of people and a lot of people hated his guts, particularly Martha Washington who dispised Jefferson for writing newspaper articles claiming that George Washington was senile during his second term.
When Jefferson arrived at George Washington’s funeral Martha Washington told a clergyman that Jefferson was “one of the most detestable of mankind.

In the election of 1800 John Adams’ campaign had written that Jefferson was “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.