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On the recordMarch 24, 1868
The bill not only prohibits the adjudication by the Supreme Court of cases in which appeals may hereafter be taken, but interdicts its jurisdiction on appeals which have already been made to that high judicial body.
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Andrew Johnson
Democratic · Tennessee

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