Talk:John Catron

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John Catron, is a confederate.... n ot a unioon party off -- 15:30, 17 October 2005‎ 209.158.178.70

How many Supreme Court Justices were there?
Something in this article doesn't make sense. The article says that the Supreme Court was expanded in 1836 from 7 to 9 justices and Catron was the only one of the two appointees who accepted the post. Then when he died, in 1865, according to the article, Congress eliminated his seat taking the Court back to 9 from 10. But how did it get to 10? 208.11.92.3 (talk) 18:11, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


 * It was actually expanded to 10 when the Tenth Circuit was created in 1863. bd2412  T 19:19, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Dodgy February 1857 Buchanan letters
The letters he exchanged with president-elect Buchanan in February 1857 were ethically dubious (violating principles of executive-judicial separation), and would have caused a big political scandal if they had been known at the time. As it says at Dred Scott v. Sandford, "Both by present-day standards and under the more lenient standards of the time, Buchanan's applying such political pressure to a member of a sitting court would be regarded as highly improper." There should be more on the letters, but I've at least added a bare mention of them... AnonMoos (talk) 13:42, 23 July 2016 (UTC)

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