According to historian Patrick Kiger, there were nine key causes to the American Civil War. Several involved laws passed by by Congress. But one was squarely the responsibility of the U. S. Supreme Court. A decision so extreme in it’s evil it's hard to believe it actually came from any court let alone the Highest Court in the Land:
Dred Scott, an enslaved man, was born in Virginia and later lived in Alabama and Missouri. In 1831, his original enslaver died, and he was purchased by a U.S. Army surgeon named John Emerson. Emerson took him to the free state of Illinois and also Wisconsin, a territory where slavery was illegal due to the Missouri Compromise. During that time, Scott married and he and his wife had four children. In 1843, Emerson died, and several years after that, Scott and his wife sued Emerson’s widow in federal court for their freedom on the grounds that they had lived in free territory.
Scott, who was assisted financially by the family of his original owner, endured years of litigation until the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court. In an 1857 decision written by Chief Justice Roger Taney, the court decided that Scott was not entitled to U.S. citizenship and the protection of law, no matter where he had lived. In the court’s view, the Constitution’s framers had not intended for Black people to be free, but instead viewed them as property, with “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” The ruling made further political compromise too difficult.
Now a majority of nine so-called umpires look like they are going to give American Presidents absolute immunity for “Official Acts!" Please, wise, kindly, Umpires show me where in the US Constitution it states American Presidents have absolute immunity from obeying the law?
Kindly Umpires, please think long and hard before putting us on the road to a nasty dictatorship! You have no military at your disposal. Nor do you control the purse strings. An independent Court system will be the first institution crushed if you enable a Tyrant to rise-up!
If you don't care about the rest of us mere mortals then at least think about your own hides and those of your brethren! For God’s sake, wake-up before the five or six of you set something into motion you WON'T be able to undo!
Learn from history! Learn from your mistakes! Protect Democracy Now!