Civil Rights Cases
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The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3, were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments did not empower Congress to o
Joseph P. Bradley authored the opinion of the court.
John Marshall Harlan became known as the "Great Dissenter" for his fiery dissent in Civil Rights Cases and other early civil rights cases.
Morrison Waite
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Morrison Remick "Mott" Waite was an American attorney, jurist, and politician from Ohio who served as the seventh chief justice of the United States from 1874 until his death in 1888. During his tenur
Civil Rights Cases
…individuals. To decide otherwise would afford black people a special status under the law that white people did not enjoy. Court membership Chief Justice Morrison Waite Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan William B. Woods · Stanley Matthews Horace Gray · Samuel…
Portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1870—1880
Waite's Chief Justice nomination