Taney

[taw-nee]

noun

1. Roger Brooke, 1777–1864, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1836–64.

Example Sentences

But Lincoln spent rather little energy condemning Taney’s citizenship passage.

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“Slaveholders were eager to get that case before Taney, because that would have nationalized slavery,” Waite said.

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That lead to a showdown with Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who said it was Congress - not the executive branch of government - that had the power to suspend the writ.

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But something was lost in the execution of “American Rot,” a flat-footed play by Kate Taney Billingsley, who is an actual descendant of the former chief justice.

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It was Taney who ruled that African Americans could not be citizens as part of the infamous Dred Scott decision, named after an enslaved man who unsuccessfully sought his freedom.

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