{"id":163970,"date":"2026-09-29T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/29\/he-left-the-top-of-the-supreme-court-for-a-job-he-thought-mattered-more\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:53:09","slug":"he-left-the-top-of-the-supreme-court-for-a-job-he-thought-mattered-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/29\/he-left-the-top-of-the-supreme-court-for-a-job-he-thought-mattered-more\/","title":{"rendered":"He Left The Top Of The Supreme Court For A Job He Thought Mattered More"},"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>John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the United States, but he found the job so underwhelming \u2014 a Court that heard only a handful of cases, plus miserable circuit-riding duty \u2014 that in 1795 he resigned outright. What did he leave the nation\u2019s top judicial post to go do? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: While still on the bench, he negotiated the 1794 Jay Treaty with Britain which was so reviled that he was denounced as a traitor and burned in effigy up and down the coast. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/he-left-the-top-of-the-supreme-court-for-a-job-he-thought-mattered-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">He Left The Top Of The Supreme Court For A Job He Thought Mattered More<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-1271369039-274x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJohn Jay\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the United States, but he found the job so underwhelming \u2014 a Court that heard only a handful of cases, plus miserable circuit-riding duty \u2014 that in 1795 he resigned outright. What did he leave the nation\u2019s top judicial post to go do? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: While still on the bench, he negotiated the 1794 Jay Treaty with Britain which was so reviled that he was denounced as a traitor and burned in effigy up and down the coast. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/he-left-the-top-of-the-supreme-court-for-a-job-he-thought-mattered-more\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/he-left-the-top-of-the-supreme-court-for-a-job-he-thought-mattered-more\/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! John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the United States, but he found the job so underwhelming \u2014 a Court that heard only a handful of cases, plus miserable circuit-riding duty \u2014 that in 1795 he resigned outright. What did he leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163971,"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-163970","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\/163970","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=163970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}