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It was a disingenuous comment because, as was readily and correctly suspected by northern abolitionists, Buchanan knew the details of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's majority decision prior to its pronouncement, as well as the accompanying concurring and dissenting positions.3 Buchanan, his predecessor Franklin Pierce, and the Court's majority believed the decision constituted the final verdict on slavery's constitutional compatibility. [...] the nation as a whole awaited the verdict in that case with more intense interest man any otiier in United States history.4 Shortly after Dred Scott, the Court adopted, in Dynes v. Hoover,s a doctrine that provides courts-martial as a uniquely exclusive instrument of the executive branch, which is not subject to the checks and balances inherent t...
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[Roger Taney]'s political opponents described him as a "political hack." They asserted that Taney would promote [Andrew Jackson]'s slavery agenda. He authored the infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford. History is about to repeat itself with Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. President [Barack Hussein Obama] is naive if he believes that he can throw a wreath to the Confederacy. This gesture is like throwing kerosene on a burning fire. White supremacists will not rest until they see the Supreme Court enshrine states' rights over federalism and Blacks are put back in chains en masse. These white supremacists view the judicial appointment of Judge [Sonia Sotomayor] as an impediment. She must convince the Senate Republicans that she and Justice Thomas are on the same page. Ju...
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There are significant similarities between the US Supreme Court decisions in 1973's Roe v. Wade and 1857's Dred Scott v. Sandford. Chief Justice Roger Taney denied Dred Scott his freedom over an interpretation of due process, and that decision led to the Fourteenth Amendment, giving the Supreme Court the legislative power of judicial review. Application of due process was an issue central to the decision of Roe v. Wade, although that decision has not resolved the abortion debate.
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The first case, ironically enough, was the one cited by President [Bush], Dred Scott v. Sandford, whose abhorrent result was produced by the application of originalist principles. Scott, a slave in St. Louis, had started a lawsuit in federal court for his freedom on the ground that he had once resided with his owner in a territory where Congress had banned slavery. On March 6, 1857, before a packed courtroom, in a faint and trembling voice, 80-year-old Chief Justice Roger Taney of Maryland announced an opinion that, according to a recent study by two former Supreme Court clerks, was "strict constructionism run amuck." The court, without apparent regard for consequences, held that, under the Constitution, Negroes in bondage were property protected by the due process clause and Congress h...
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.... (208.) Id. . (209.) See, e.g., Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393, 426 (185...
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... Taney would deploy seventeen years later in Dred Scott. This remarkable text has languished in obsc.... (6.) Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857). . (7.) See, e.g., B...
