Selective Draft Law Cases
Supreme Court decision
By: Edward D. White
Date: January 7, 1918
Source: White, Edward D. Selective Draft Law Cases, 245 U.S. 366 (1918). Reprinted in Kutler, Stanley I., ed. The Supreme Court and the Constitution: Readings in American Constitutional History, 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1984, 321–323.
About the Author: Edward D. White (1845–1921), born in 1845 in Louisiana to a slaveholder, fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. He served on the Louisiana Supreme Court and ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate. President Grover Cleveland (served 1885–1889; 1893–1897) appointed him associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1894, and President William Howard Taft (served 1909–1913) elevated him to chief justice in 1911.
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