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hatrack

(59,587 posts) Mon Jun 27, 2022, 02:27 PM Jun 2022

"John Roberts has made his decision; now let him enforce it."

Originally "John Marshall has made his decision . . . apocryphally attributed to Andrew Jackson, Worcester vs. Georgia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia

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"John Roberts has made his decision; now let him enforce it." (Original Post) hatrack Jun 2022 OP

The State of Maine has already done that. dchill Jun 2022 #1

I guess I am confused. What is there for the SC to enforce. It's up to the states now, right? Ferrets are Cool Jun 2022 #2

Early example of a sitting president saying "Fuck Y'all" to the Supreme Court . . . hatrack Jun 2022 #3

dchill

(38,502 posts)

1. The State of Maine has already done that.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Mon Jun 27, 2022, 02:31 PM

Jun 2022

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)

2. I guess I am confused. What is there for the SC to enforce. It's up to the states now, right?

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Mon Jun 27, 2022, 02:48 PM

Jun 2022

Please educate me.

hatrack

(59,587 posts)

3. Early example of a sitting president saying "Fuck Y'all" to the Supreme Court . . .

Reply to Ferrets are Cool (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 27, 2022, 03:39 PM

Jun 2022

The case established that only the federal government had the authority to negotiate with First Nations, not individual states like Georgia.

As a result, it produced the nullification crisis of 1832-33, driven by Georgia but more energetically by South Carolina, which was enough of a problem that Jackson requested authorization for military force to be used against South Carolina.

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