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0-10 ‘{Rev. §-7-38) rf . fy : . . [ L Tolso F S229” SAMUEL CHASE | ERE te se Pafeons —_—— LS Digging ardund in histories and reference ‘books for Tame ‘naterial for our “Americans to Remember” Suriday edi- ' Trotter jforials, we've, yun | across the story of an almost. forgotten { Necse _ trial which we think Americans ; Tele. Room \ poday. should by all i méana rement- Y olloman |. te was the trial ‘on “Tritech” andy - ment charges of a U. 8. Supreme: |{Court Associate Justice, no less. | 7 The. story seems well worth retell-. ng in these days, when more and -[more of us are wondering what” | if anything can be done to persuade aaiithe Evrl Warren Supreme Court to quit giving aid and comfort to the Communist enemy in tinle of cold War. .., Samuel Chase.” - Supreme-Court-is nothing new. . ‘As long’ago as 1823, Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend - of hig that “there is no danger I apprehend so much ag the | ‘consolidation of our Government [into one all-powerful * -organization based in Washington] by the noiseless, and. therefore unalarming, instrumentality of the Supreme’ urt.”? s--. Still ‘earlier (1823), ‘Jefferson’ "had “written | “another” friend that “it has long... been my opinion ... that the “Incidentally, worry about: the a (y “germ of dissolution of federal government is in the con- ~f Te fl Se stitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, ea a7. ~ LE, ‘(for impeachment is scarcely a seare-crow), working like - NOT RECORDED gravity by night and day, gaining » little today’ and po 141 SEP 5D 1957. {little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a - | thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped jfrom the States, and the government of all be eae ———— into one,” ~ rae Hyer ges ot ge A x - The Supreme Court justice ‘referred. ‘to “above tound. | Wash. rost ane that impeachment was something more than the 6 mers mes tera ,scare-crow which Jefferson believed it to be. ° PF tue Wash, News “This jurist was Samuel Chase (1741-1811).-"’ sas) Wash. Star Chase was elevated to the Supreme Court from’ the” I N.Y. Herald , Maryland General Court in 1796. His new eminence seems Tribune -- to have gone to his head, and he hori J | Bully on: became. bulldozer an 7 browbea N. Y. Journal- he Bench of attorneys.and court’ attendants. On" American two occasions, eminent, Jaw oid walked N. Y. Mirror —_______ “out of court because of Chase. : N. Y. Daily News // -Qncehe left the Supreme “Court “without a ‘quorum’ N. Y¥. Times while he went on a political speechmaking tour; ; *:).~:¥. .. k :.” An's couple of cases tried by the court in 1800, Chase Daily Worker Lf twisted the law unmercifully in order to bring in decisions, The Worker rties he favored. tase cos Se hon isin eens bik New Leader ate sep 3 Te" BVRDL B a ° ;