Excellent read about the Alien and Sedition Act. Somehow it's debate seems ripe for today's media.
Supreme Court Justice Richard Peters issued a warrant for the arrest of Benjamin Bache.
Interesting power of SCOTUS.
Their opponents were, one Federalist wrote, "democrats, mobocrats and all other kinds of rats."
And they still are.
In the beginning, the SCOTUS Justices also rode circuit to function as trial judges since the inferior federal courts hadn't been formed yet.
Indeed!