Andrew Jackson

Due process and equal protection, at their worst. Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and pressed forced removals of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and others, culminating in the Trail of Tears, after the Supreme Court in Worcester v Georgia had upheld Cherokee sovereignty. His administration also let the Post Office suppress abolitionist mail in the South. Supporters then cast it as expanding white settlers' democracy; by civil liberties criteria it is among the worst records of any president.