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The confirmation vote split on party lines: Democrats voted 29-0 to confirm; Republicans voted 28-2 against. Lamar was elevated to the high court by a majority of the vote; the judicial filibuster had not yet been invented in the 1880s. 10/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 29, 2022

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EG The Memphis Daily Appeal, then one of the most important papers in the South, praised him as a worthy successor to Roger Taney and John Campbell - two members of the Dred Scott majority. Campbell had then resigned from the Court to fight for the Confederacy. 9/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 29, 2022

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In his short career on the court - he died in 1893 - Lamar wrote only one memorable opinion: his dissent from a case that upheld the authority of the United States to protect a person in federal custody from lynching. 11/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 29, 2022