This venal Confederate is one of the leading obstructionists to the "rights" of blacks. Not only did he rule against Dred Scott's bid for freedom in 1857, which, in part, launched the Civil War, but he served in the Cabinet of Jefferson Davis in the Civil War. Even more importantly he filed a lawsuit under the 14th Amendment in the Slaughterhouse Cases, which involved no blacks, that derailed the Amendment's salutary purposes for blacks into a constitutional slough!The Supreme Court whose sitting justices had lobbied for Campbell's appointment, decreed that the 14th Amendment protected federal rights only, which were very few in number, all others were states' rights, which the 14th Amendment did not reach! This line of thought was followed by the Court from 1873, well into the 20th Century, as "Jim Crow," thanks to John Campbell and his racist judicial cronies!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Campbell
Thursday, May 7, 2015
JOHN A. CAMPBELL, RACIST JURIST, AND U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, WHO CREATED "JIM CROW"
This venal Confederate is one of the leading obstructionists to the "rights" of blacks. Not only did he rule against Dred Scott's bid for freedom in 1857, which, in part, launched the Civil War, but he served in the Cabinet of Jefferson Davis in the Civil War. Even more importantly he filed a lawsuit under the 14th Amendment in the Slaughterhouse Cases, which involved no blacks, that derailed the Amendment's salutary purposes for blacks into a constitutional slough!The Supreme Court whose sitting justices had lobbied for Campbell's appointment, decreed that the 14th Amendment protected federal rights only, which were very few in number, all others were states' rights, which the 14th Amendment did not reach! This line of thought was followed by the Court from 1873, well into the 20th Century, as "Jim Crow," thanks to John Campbell and his racist judicial cronies!
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archibald_Campbell