Supreme Court of the United States organization
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George Shiras Jr. member_of
Supreme Court of the United States host_asserted
“It kind of helps when your third cousin is the Secretary of State, Joseph B. Bradley. That's who recommended him to Harris, and then he becomes a Supreme Court justice. Here's where it gets, well, you got to go into him on the Supreme Court…”
▶ The Shadow State 51 Scroll and Key Pt. 1 @ 47:22
Morrison Waite appointed
Supreme Court of the United States host_asserted
“There's a guy by the name of Morrison Waite. In 1837, he became a Supreme Court Justice. He had William H. Taft. He's the only person to ever serve as the President of the United States and on the Supreme Court. Also, the man, Teddy Rooseve…”
▶ The Shadow State 33 Secret Societies 17; Freemason Preview @ 52:09
William Howard Taft appointed
Supreme Court of the United States host_asserted
“There's a guy by the name of Morrison Waite. In 1837, he became a Supreme Court Justice. He had William H. Taft. He's the only person to ever serve as the President of the United States and on the Supreme Court. Also, the man, Teddy Rooseve…”
▶ The Shadow State 33 Secret Societies 17; Freemason Preview @ 52:09
Potter Stewart member_of
Supreme Court of the United States host_asserted
“Law, instead of Harvard Law. Why do we know Potter Stewart? Well, we'll get to that in a second. He studied one year of international law at Cambridge. He's in another secret society besides Skull and Bones at Yale. It was an academic frate…”
▶ Shadow State 27 Secret Societies 11; The 1930's @ 46:41
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▶ 46:41
Law, instead of Harvard Law. Why do we know Potter Stewart? Well, we'll get to that in a second. He studied one year of international law at Cambridge. He's in another secret society besides Skull and Bones at Yale. It was an academic frate…
▶ 47:11
some pretty famous people like Gerald Ford, Sergeant Shriver, Cyrus Vance, and Byron White, who also served on the Supreme Court at the same time as Potter Stewart. So you had two classmates, both went to Yale at the same time, served on th…
▶ 48:13
Mr. Potter Stewart to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1950-something, and then he gets nominated as SCOTUS in 1958. Best known for being the key mover behind the passage of Roe v. Wade. So he was like one of the last things Eisenhower …
▶ 1:44:56
fascist deal was overturned by the Supreme Court. So we settled for the New Deal, which was socialism light. All three of those things, you're going to have every single one of those things. Socialism, Bolshevikism and fascism are all total…
▶ 52:09
There's a guy by the name of Morrison Waite. In 1837, he became a Supreme Court Justice. He had William H. Taft. He's the only person to ever serve as the President of the United States and on the Supreme Court. Also, the man, Teddy Rooseve…
▶ 27:49
Okay, we got some people in the judiciary that are worth mentioning. Robert Bork, who, of course, got borked. He was a Reagan nominee for Supreme Court that got shot down. I believe it was Joe Biden that let that attack on Bork. Yep. And to…
▶ 28:19
They wouldn't have attacked him if he wasn't. No. No, that's when Kavanaugh was up, they tried to bork him as well. It was ridiculous. Somehow he got through. Say what you want about Mitch McConnell, but at least he got the judges through. …
▶ 46:50
Under a law office, you could do that apprenticeship. He would practice law in a place called Dubuque, Iowa, from 1855 to 1858. And then he moved to Pittsburgh and practiced from 1858 to 1892. So, nice little 34-year career in Pittsburgh. 1…
▶ 49:31
This is Reconstruction period. This is the Gilded Age. This is everything going on in the 1870s, 80s, and 90s. We pretty much have single-party rule in D.C. Those are the Republicans. The robber barons are making a lot of money, a lot of it…
▶ 49:59
decreased tariffs, which was great for the businesses, and increased, created direct tax on everyone else. This is our big multinational corporations shifting their taxes onto us. This creates an unapportioned direct tax. This goes to the S…
▶ 52:49
Another really famous case was Plessy v. Ferguson. 1896. The Supreme Court rules that legal segregation laws do not violate the Constitution. This creates the, quote, separate but equal doctrine and legitimized the Jim Crow laws. The Suprem…
▶ 53:59
And appeals it. Governor John Howard Ferguson, that's the Ferguson in there, denies his request to dismiss the charges as unconstitutional. So it gets to the Supreme Court. They issue a 7-1 decision. And in the quote, they say the 14th Amen…
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Shiraz dies in 1903 in Pittsburgh. He retired from SCOTUS right before dying. Interestingly enough, he's got a son named George Shiraz III, who served in Congress from Pennsylvania from 1903 to 1905. His son came from the Phillips Academy i…