Worst Chief Justice of the Supreme Court EVER!

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Is it Taney in a walk? Or will one of the laissez-faire apologists emerge from the pack?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Melville Weston Fuller October 8, 1888–July 4, 1910	5
William Hubbs Rehnquist September 26, 1986-September 3, 2005	3
Roger Brooke Taney March 28, 1836–October 12, 1864	2
Salmon Portland Chase December 15, 1864–May 7, 1873	1
John Glover Roberts September 29, 2005–present	1
Warren Earl Burger June 23, 1969–September 26, 1986	1
Frederick Moore Vinson June 24, 1946–September 8, 1953	0
Earl Warren October 5, 1953–June 23, 1969	0
Harlan Fiske Stone July 3, 1941–April 22, 1946	0
Charles Evans Hughes February 24, 1930–June 30, 1941	0
William Howard Taft July 11, 1921–February 3, 1930	0
Edward Douglass White December 19, 1910–May 19, 1921	0
Morrison Remick Waite March 4, 1874–March 23, 1888	0
John Marshall February 4, 1801–July 6, 1835	0
Oliver Ellsworth March 8, 1796–December 15, 1800	0
William Cushing February 3, 1796–February 5, 1796	0
John Rutledge July 1, 1795–December 15, 1795	0
John Jay October 19, 1789–June 29, 1795	0

― Martin Van Burne, Thursday, 17 April 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

No question - Meville Fuller, chief of the most anti-black, most pro-business Court ever. (In)famous decisions include: Plessy vs Fergueson, Lochner vs New York.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 17 April 2008 16:22 (seventeen years ago)

So Truman and FDR are the only presidents in the last 120 years to appoint Chief Justices?

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 17 April 2008 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

DEMOCRAT presidents, I mean.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 17 April 2008 16:42 (seventeen years ago)

Jackson and Cleveland too.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 17 April 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

but you don't want Roger Taney and Fuller on your side.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 17 April 2008 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

Fuller also ruled the income tax unconstitutional and cut the Sherman Antitrust Act off at the knees.

― Martin Van Burne, Thursday, 17 April 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

People looking to hate Grover Cleveland for something need only consider his apppointment of Fuller.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 17 April 2008 22:23 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Thursday, 17 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Threw in a pity vote for Warren Burger, because he was a documented shit, but Fuller's got the stuff for this poll.

― J, Friday, 18 April 2008 01:36 (seventeen years ago)

I can't bring myself to hate Rehnquist, especially after reading Jeffrey Toobin's book.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 18 April 2008 01:46 (seventeen years ago)

I find Charles Evans Hughes the most underrated/underpublicized figure in 20th century American history. What a resume: progressive Republican governor of New York, associate SCOTUS justice, narrowly losing to Wilson in 1916, secretary of state to Harding, and Chief Justice of SCOTUS who finally ratified most of FDR'S New Deal legislation after allowing The Four Horsemen to repeal it for two years.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 18 April 2008 02:06 (seventeen years ago)

OT but i was skimming through one of robert bork's crazy-old-man screeds ("slouching towards gomorrah," or something like that") a while back -- which included, no kidding, a chapter titled "the case for censorship" -- and thinking, imagine if bork had actually been appointed. is there even the slightest chance he might've wound up chief justice? i think that's a prospect even scarier than, say, giuliani as pres.

― J.D., Friday, 18 April 2008 08:02 (seventeen years ago)

bork on the court at all is scarier than giuliani as pres, nevermind chief justice. vile vile man.

― balls, Friday, 18 April 2008 14:08 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Friday, 18 April 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

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― fffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (Z S), Sunday, 13 February 2011 16:17 (fourteen years ago)

hah

― weed hitler poop fart obama (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 13 February 2011 17:55 (fourteen years ago)

?!!

― fffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (Z S), Sunday, 13 February 2011 17:57 (fourteen years ago)

Interrobang?!

― a le tiss faux-cunt (Upt0eleven), Sunday, 13 February 2011 18:13 (fourteen years ago)

I read that NYT article, didn't think it a big deal.

― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 February 2011 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

are any of these ppl as depraved as this former lord chief justice

It has been claimed that Goddard had a particular personal reaction to sentencing people to death. According to his valet, Goddard would have an orgasm during sentencing and his trousers had to be sent off to be cleaned as a result.[14][15] [16] Another version suggests Goddard reacted in this way when sentencing young men to be birched.

― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Sunday, 13 February 2011 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

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