I wish this meme could be turned back on them. Dred Scott for example.
~At the time of the 1857 Dred Scott decision: it was democrats on the Supreme Court!
Republicans: None of the justices who joined the Taney majority were members of the Republican Party. (The Republican Party was new—formed in the 1850s—and its supporters were generally not appointed to the Court yet.)
Democrats (or pro-Southern/Democratic-aligned appointees): Roger B. Taney, James M. Wayne, John Catron, Peter V. Daniel, Samuel Nelson, Robert C. Grier, and John A. Campbell were all appointed by Democratic presidents or generally aligned with Democratic/pro-Southern interests.
Dissents: Benjamin R. Curtis and John McLean were not Republicans; Curtis had been a Whig and later associated with anti-Democratic positions, and McLean had been a longtime Whig who later aligned with emerging anti-slavery Republicans in sentiment though not formally a Republican appointee.~
They meme, but they meme lies.
I wish this meme could be turned back on them. Dred Scott for example.
~At the time of the 1857 Dred Scott decision: it was democrats on the Supreme Court!