Matt Rosendale Quotes
We need more justices who will uphold the Constitution, follow the rule of law, and protect our Montana way of life.
Rosendale, Matt. "Issues: Judges." Matt for Montana, 2018.
TR had a Supreme Court where a conservative block was in the majority and declared a number of his key reforms as unconstitutional. The same thing happened to FDR as well. Since Supreme Court justices had lifetime tenure most presidents and congresses have to deal with a court that has the political makeup and political philosophy of previous administrations by which they were appointed. Reform and change presidents tend to see the Supreme Court as obstructionist.
The two law enforcement officers had testified that they arrested demonstrators who had “come to break the law” and had not at that point broken any laws.
What makes this quotation so historically interesting is that the abiding by the Supreme Court’s decisions on constitutionality was even an issue. It was because of the terrible Dred Scott decision which required Northern States to return fugitive slaves to their owners despite the constitutions of those states which stated that all men were free. A substantial part of the Democratic Party was the “solid South” and the return of fugitive slaves was one of the major issues of the 1860 Presidential Election. Ironically, the Southern States were arguing AGAINST states’ rights when the Northern States’ laws and Constitutions made fugitive slaves free the minute they set foot in the state.
Matthew Martin Rosendale Sr. is an American politician and businessman from the state of Montana. He is the U.S. Representative for Montana's at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, elected in 2020.