“It was in a packed courtroom in Richmond, Virginia — the former capital of the Confederacy — in December 1868 where Chief Justice Salmon Chase concluded that Jefferson Davis, the defeated rebel president, should not face prosecution for treason,” NBC News reports.
“Little would anyone have known at the time that Chase’s decision —in addition to another one he authored the following year touching upon the same legal issue but reaching a different conclusion — would re-emerge from the mists of history to play a role in the ongoing dispute over whether former President Donald Trump should be barred from office.”
Associated Press: Can Trump be on the ballot? It’s the Supreme Court’s biggest election test since Bush v. Gore.
