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SCOTUS CJ's
US Supreme Court Chief Justices and important rulings
| Rulings | Justice |
|---|---|
| One notable case is Chisholm vs Georgia. It ruled that states could not be sued by citizens of other states. It led to the 11th amendment. | John Jay |
| This Justice was a recess appointment and the Senate rejected him when they came back in session. Therefore, he only had time to decide two cases. | John Rutledge |
| He didn't have any too significant rulings. He was the chief justice from 1796 to 1800. | Oliver Ellsworth |
| Marbury v Madison established the principle of judicial review. McCulloch vs Maryland said the US could establish a national bank and federal law overrode state laws. Gibbons v Ogden said it was the role of the federal government to regulate commerce. | John Marshall |
| One famous case during his term was Dred Scott v Sandford, which said that African Americans were not citizens and that slaves were property. | Roger Taney |
| In ex Parte Milligan, his court controversially ruled that the 14th amendment only affected federal citizenship and not state citizenship. He also presided over Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial. | Salmon P Chase |
| His court had a narrow view of the 14th amendment and ruled in 5 separate civil rights cases that the 14th amendment did not allow Congress to pass legislation banning racial discrimination. | Morrison Waite |
| In Plessy v Ferguson, his court ruled that racial discrimination was okay, so long as the Blacks had the same facilities as the whites did available elsewhere. | Melville Fuller |
| In Schenk v US, his court ruled that certain antiwar pamphlets that violated the espionage act were not protected by the first amendment. It established that speech could be restricted if it presented a clear and present danger. | Edward Douglas White |
| He is the only person to have served as president and Chief Justice. | William Howard Taft |
| His court was that 6 new justices were appointed from 1937 to 1941. Though he didn't have any big landmark rulings, the most significant case was Near v Minnesota, which ruled that prior restraint of publication violates the First Amendment. | Charles Hughes |
| A notable case from this court was Korematsu v US, which upheld the internment of Japanese in WWII. It was criticized as a horrible and racist ruling. A justice from his court participated in the Nuremberg trials. | Harlan F Stone |
| A landmark ruling from his court was Sweatt v Painter, which ruled that a certain separate law school for Blacks in Texas, was not equal to that for whites. It paved the way for Brown v Board a few years later by attacking the separate but equal doctrine. | Fred Vinson |
| He presided over many significant cases, especially over civil rights, as well as Miranda v Arizona, Gideon v Wainwright, Mapp v Ohio, Engel v Vitale, and Tinker v Des Moines. | Earl Warren |
| The most important cases during his court were US v Nixon, which required Nixon to turn over the Watergate scandal tapes. and Roe v Wade, which gave the constitutional right to an abortion | Warren Burger |
| It was a conservative court. 2 notable cases include Bush v Gore, which stopped the 2000 election recount and gave the win to Bush, and Texas v Johnson, which ruled that flag burning is protected by the First Amendment. | William Rehnquist |
| It is the current court, which is conservative. Significant recent cases include Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v Wade, and Trump v US, which gives presidential immunity. | John Roberts |
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