Interesting that Trump expresses so much admiration for Andrew Jackson. In reading a bit on Andrew Jackson’s administration it seems that history is indeed repeating itself.
After forcing the resignation of the majority of his cabinet in the Petticoat Affair and besmirching their character, Jackson finagled Congress to get Taney appointed to AG to finally defeat the National Bank and dole out favors and contracts to his “pet banks.”
Though failing in his first attempt to get Taney appointed to the Supreme Court, he was successful getting him appointed to Chief Justice after the death of Marshall. Widely considered a political hack appointed to carry water for the pro-slavery, anti-Federalist and pro-Jackson forces. Taney went on to author some of the worst decisions in court history, including Prigg and Strader in which states are forced to comply with other states and federal Fugitive Slave Laws), and the worst court decision in American history, Dred Scott (in which it was ruled that freed slaves retained no rights as citizens, and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because the federal government had no authority over states right to keep people enslaved.) He served on the court for 28 years, the second longest tenure in history.
One wonders what barbarity can happen when Barr is elevated to SCOTUS.
But I really doubt Trump knows the history of Jackson.
