The discussion around the supreme court case earlier was that corporations, as groups of people, are able to make political contributions on behalf of those people. Likewise, I want a restraining order against that group of SEIU people called the TSA.
{It] made any Federal marshal or other official who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to a fine of $1,000. Law-enforcement officials everywhere now had a duty to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave.Is that at all reminiscent of the current TSA procedures, detentions and threats against regular citizens in the course of their daily business? I think so![That duty to arrest arose] on no more evidence than a claimant's sworn testimony of ownership. The suspected slave could not ask for a jury trial or testify on his or her own behalf.
Any person aiding a runaway slave by providing food or shelter was subject to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine.
Officers who captured a fugitive slave were entitled to a bonus or promotion for their work.
In 1854, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declared the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional, the only state to do so. But the US Supreme Court affirmed the horrid Law and overruled the state.
As far as I can tell the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1850 are still in force or force of legal precedent, the Supreme Court has never overturned them or rejected them.