The rationale doesn't matter; Constitutionality does.
I was taught in public school that determining Constitutionality was what the Supremes did for a living.
A timely ruling in this case might possibly have saved a lot of bloodshed later on. Tho' Jackson of course was famously no respecter of the Supreme Court.
Birdwatcher
Yes the same Jackson that said and I paraphrase "does the Supreme Court have an army?? Hey I got an army!!!" Referencing the case of;
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
