 | GenghisTheHun (168)
04/27/2006 | He did a good job and was very competent. The times were somewhat turbulet with Populism and then Progressivism, and all those crack-pot ideas then current, but the court, conservatively, followed the election returns and did what it had to do.
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 | callitdowntheline75 (53)
08/02/2004 | Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller will always be remembered as the man who presided over the Supreme Court during the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson case. However, unlike Chief Justice Taney who wrote Dred Scott v. Sanford, Fuller ought not to be condemn for this. Rightfully, most High Court historians agree he was instead an able administrator and capable Court manager who created and enforced the time-honored tradition of the conference handshake so as to instill harmony between Justices despite their obvious philosophical differences. Above all, he was respected by his brethren who saw him as an authority figure. On a side note, the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson decision was penned by Justice Henry Brown. It was Brown who wrote the ugly venacular ...separate but equal...
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