MISSISSIPPI
v.
STANTON AND GRANT

U.S. | 1867-05-16
No. 14
154 U.S. 554 Supreme Court of the United States (1867) Positive Treatment
Cited by 2 cases
Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Nelson

Mr. Justice Nelson delivered the opinion of the court.

The bill is dismissed for want of jurisdiction for the reasons assigned in the case of The State of Georgia v. E. M. Stanton, U. S. Grant and John Pope, 6 Wall. 50; 241.

Dismissed.

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  • Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (U.S. 1962)
    …ther than action, the absolute lack of precedent for any such distinction left the case one in which “general principles . . . forbid judicial interference with the exercise of Executive discretion.” 4 Wall., at 499. See also Mississippi v. Stanton, 154 U. S. 554; and see 2 Warren, The Supreme Court in United States History (Rev. ed.), 463. For another instance of congressional action challenged as transgressing the Guaranty Clause, see The Collector v. Day, 11 Wall. 113, 125-126, overruled, Graves v. O’Kee…
  • Nat'l Treas. Emps. Union v. Nixon, 492 F.2d 587 (D.C. Cir. 1974)
    …Mississippi v. Johnson was dismissed on the ground, that it presented a political question is also to be found in light of the Court’s subsequent decisions in Georgia v. Stanton, 73 U.S. (6 Wall.) 50, 18 L.Ed. 721 (1867), and Mississippi v. Stanton, 154 U.S. 554, 14 S.Ct. 1209, 18 L.Ed. 725 (1893) (but decided March 30, 1868). In those eases, the states of Georgia and Mississippi challenged the constitutionality of the same two Reconstruction Acts as were challenged in Mississippi v. Johnson. The Court dism…

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