Court Opinion

ID: 9841763
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-22 20:05:14.836001+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:04:41.058822
License: Public Domain

Me, . Justice HablaN
concurring.
I concur with the .court in holding that a suit directly against a State by one of its own citizens is not one to which the judicial power of the United States extends, unless the State itself consents to be sued. Upon this ground alone I assent to the judgment. But I cannot give my assent to many things said in the opinion. The comments made upon the decision in Chisholm v. Georgia do not meet my approval. They are not necessary to the determination of the present case. Besides, I am of opinion that the decision in that case was based upon a sound interpretation of the Constitution as that instrument then was.