On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Eastman, John wrote:
> I seem to recall a colorful claim by some president or other, opposed to
> a particular court ruling, along the lines of: "The Court has issued
> its ruling, now let it enforce it."
> Can anyone point me to the specific President, case, and citation for
> this? Perhaps Truman, in response to the Steel Seizure decision?
The always-helpful Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations has this
to say:
John Marshall has made his decision: _now let him enforce it!_*
Andrew Jackson, Attributed remark, 1832, quoted in Horace Greeley,
_The American Conflict_ 1:106 (1864)
* This response to the Supreme Court decision in _Worcester v. Georgia_,
31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 515 (1832), was first attributed to Jackson in the 1864
book indicated above. While the remark does represent Jackson's views,
the actual words were probably never spoken by him.
Fred Shapiro
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