An event centering on this person followed a similar event that targeted the alcoholic John Pickering. This person used natural law to argue that the ex post facto clause does not apply to civil cases in his majority opinion for Calder v. Bull. This person mocked the defense as “a non sequitur” in a libel trial concerning the pamphlet The Prospect Before Us. This person told a grand jury in Baltimore that repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801 was turning America into a (*) “mobocracy.” Aaron Burr presided over this person’s trial, in which Luther Martin successfully defended this person from John Randolph of Roanoke’s charges that he had been biased against John Fries and James T. Callender. For 10 points, name this Supreme Court justice who was unsuccessfully impeached by the Democratic-Republicans. ■END■
ANSWER: Samuel Chase
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