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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"John Roberts has made his decision; now let him enforce it."
Originally "John Marshall has made his decision . . . apocryphally attributed to Andrew Jackson, Worcester vs. Georgia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia
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"John Roberts has made his decision; now let him enforce it." (Original Post)
hatrack
Jun 2022
OP
I guess I am confused. What is there for the SC to enforce. It's up to the states now, right?
Ferrets are Cool
Jun 2022
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dchill
(42,660 posts)1. The State of Maine has already done that.
Ferrets are Cool
(22,597 posts)2. I guess I am confused. What is there for the SC to enforce. It's up to the states now, right?
hatrack
(64,484 posts)3. Early example of a sitting president saying "Fuck Y'all" to the Supreme Court . . .
The case established that only the federal government had the authority to negotiate with First Nations, not individual states like Georgia.
As a result, it produced the nullification crisis of 1832-33, driven by Georgia but more energetically by South Carolina, which was enough of a problem that Jackson requested authorization for military force to be used against South Carolina.
