Justice Pierce Butler #71
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Justice Pierce Butler #71

Justice Pierce Butler #71 who interestingly was born in a log cabin. Party politics aside President Warren Harding a Republican nominated Butler, a Democrat to the Supreme Court in 1923. Butler was the lone Justice to dissent in Palco v Conn. Which allowed the state to have two trials to convict a man for murders. (we know through double jeopardy that Butler was the only one that got it right.)

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