{"id":163029,"date":"2026-09-16T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/16\/the-supreme-court-justice-that-ran-a-treason-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:38:00","slug":"the-supreme-court-justice-that-ran-a-treason-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/16\/the-supreme-court-justice-that-ran-a-treason-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court Justice That Ran A Treason Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1807, a former vice president stood trial for treason, accused of plotting to carve his own empire out of the western frontier, with the sitting president driving the prosecution and openly declaring him guilty. Which Supreme Court justice presided over the trial?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: He did it as a trial judge while riding the circuit. He was also the president\u2019s cousin and his bitter rival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/the-supreme-court-justice-that-ran-a-treason-trial\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Supreme Court Justice That Ran A Treason Trial<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1807, a former vice president stood trial for treason, accused of plotting to carve his own empire out of the western frontier, with the sitting president driving the prosecution and openly declaring him guilty. Which Supreme Court justice presided over the trial?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: He did it as a trial judge while riding the circuit. He was also the president\u2019s cousin and his bitter rival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/the-supreme-court-justice-that-ran-a-treason-trial\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/the-supreme-court-justice-that-ran-a-treason-trial\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! In 1807, a former vice president stood trial for treason, accused of plotting to carve his own empire out of the western frontier, with the sitting president driving the prosecution and openly declaring him guilty. Which Supreme Court justice presided over the trial? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}