Anonymous ID: 58cdad March 18, 2025, 4:02 a.m. No.22780329   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0333

April 2 id Freedom Day, yes?

Saw POTUS post something about that date yesterday.

 

Check this out!

 

Repeal and the Judiciary Act of 1802

Jefferson sought to abolish the new courts and, in the process, eliminate the judges. In January 1802 John Breckinridge of Kentucky, a strong supporter of Jefferson, introduced a bill in the Senate to repeal the Judiciary Act of 1801. After intense debate the Repeal Act narrowly passed the upper chamber, 16–15, in February; the House of Representatives, where the Republicans enjoyed a large majority, enacted the Senate bill without amendment in March.

 

Congress then passed the Judiciary Act of 1802 inApril 1802, increasing the number of circuits from three to six, with each Supreme Court justice assigned to only one, where he would preside with the local district judges on circuit twice a year. In addition, the new law provided for only one term of the Supreme Court each year, to begin on the first Monday of every February, thus eliminating the court’s traditional summer session. This provision, however, provoked much criticism, in part because it entailed that the court would not meet again until February 1803, 10 months after the 1802 act was passed. Critics also claimed that the Republicans had reduced the Supreme Court’s schedule to one term because they feared that the court would have found the Repeal Act unconstitutional at its scheduled summer session starting in June.

 

Chief Justice John Marshall doubted the constitutionality of the repeal but recognized that he could not sway the opinion of a majority of justices. When a specific challenge did reach the court in Stuart v. Laird (1803), the court, in an opinion by Justice William Paterson, affirmed the constitutionality of the repeal. Thus, what had seemed so grave a question at the time passed quickly into obscurity.