Court Orders Quotes
In 1832 the Supreme Court held that the state of Georgia could not remove Creek and Cherokee Indians from lands that had been guaranteed to them by a federal treaty. The president disagreed with the court, then headed by John Marshall:. Marshall could not do so without the executive. The Indians were illegally removed to Western lands.
Gets was commenting on the Apple Computer Company who refused to obey a court order to create a program that would break into any iPhone. Apple thought the court order was not only bad public policy, but was not legal, so they refused and appealed to start the legal process. However, the FBI which had claimed that they had no other way to view some critical investigative data, found one, and not wanting the case to go to higher courts where they might or might not lose, the dropped the case, thus stopping the legal appeal as in the United States courts will hot hear theoretical cases as they will in some countries. Since apple was not in danger of being held in criminal contempt any longer the could not longer appeal.
The FBI had obtained a court order requiring apple to write software that could hack into a person's iPhone. Apple, with most other hi-tech companies in support, filed a motion with the court opposing the order. The FBI shortly thereafter withdrew its request for the order saying that they had found other solutions, when they had originally told the court that there were no other solutions.
Later that year he sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce a desegregation order.
His Indian Removal Policy forced Native American to leave their lands which were theirs by treaties signed by the United States and marched to the poorest land in Oklahoma where they were "resettled". This is often referred to as the "Trail of Tears". What made his actions evern wors was the fact that The Supreme Court had already ruled that such land belinged to the Cherokee Indian Tribe and the government of the United States may not force them from it. Jackson was the only President in Amrican History to defy a Supreme Court order.
The FBI had obtained a court order requiring apple to write software that could hack into a person's iPhone. Apple, with most other hi-tech companies in support, filed a motion with the court opposing the order. The FBI shortly thereafter withdrew its request for the order saying that they had found other solutions, when they had originally told the court that there were no other solutions. The issue however was and remains a very difficult political, moral, ethical, and legal conundrum.
Commenting on the Federal Troops preventing violence in Central High School:
Voting against a housing construction plan ordered by the federal court to remedy housing discrimination in Yonkers:
The FBI obtained a court order requiring Aplle to write a program that would decrypt the cell phone of a terrorist mass murderer. If there were such a program, no one could be guaranteed the confidentality of his/her own personal files thus removing a means of maitining privacy that Americans and all others who bought the Apple iPhone. One of the main motivations for people in foreign coutnries to buy and Apple iPhone was to be able to keep their files secret from their governments. If Apples were tp develop such a program not only would Apple lose business and America lose jobs, but everone would lose a degree of privacy from government intrusion. Further, then China, Russia, Egypt and the other non-democratic goverments in the world would gain a major new tool with which they could repress their citizenry.
