![]() ![]() January 23 Senate rejected the Treat with France January 20 Adams nominated John Marshall to serve as January 2 Jay wrote to Adams declining to serve as Chief ![]() November 17 The second session of the Sixth Congress beganĭecember 15 Adams learned of the resignation of Chief Justiceĭecember 18 Adams nominated John Jay to serve as Chiefĭecember 19 The Senate confirmed John Jay to serve as The timing of the actions of the lame duck President Adams and the Federalist-controlled Congress in 18 speaks for itself: The incoming Republicans were not amused, but the Constitution left them helpless. proceeded to use its political power with considerable abandon." (4) Between December 1800 and March 3, 1801, President Adams and the Federalist majority in Congress enacted sweeping legislation, approved treaties, appointed a new Chief Justice and dozens of other judges to the federal judiciary, and nearly succeeded in anointing Aaron Burr as President instead of Thomas Jefferson. In the understated words of Chief Justice Rehnquist, "The lame-duck Congress. The months between the election and the inauguration-the so-called "lame duck" period-thus provided the last opportunity for the Federalists to exercise the authority of the government of the United States. But Jefferson and the dreaded Republicans were the victors, and they were poised to take office on March 4, 1801. And Adams and the Federalists would not have been in such a hurry if Adams had been reelected in 1800. None of this would have happened, of course, if President Adams and his Federalist Party allies in Congress had not been in such a hurry to create and populate an expanded federal judiciary. ![]()
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