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Do you have a source for number 3 (warrant to arrest the Chief Justice)? It's not that I don't believe you, it's just the kind of think I'm interested in readin
by angli 13y ago
Do you have a source for number 3 (warrant to arrest the Chief Justice)? It's not that I don't believe you, it's just the kind of think I'm interested in reading about.
- sausman 13y agoThere's a Wikipedia page here with some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taney_Arrest_Warrant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taney_Arrest_Warrant LewRockwell.com also has some interesting articles on Lincoln, but they redesigned the site so a lot of links on Google are broken for now.
- bradleyjg 13y agoThe warrant, if there was one, never issued. The case in question was Ex parte Merryman. Justice Taney was sitting as a Circuit Court (middle level federal court) judge for the case, as was the usual practice for Supreme Court Justices at the time. Historical evidence for the purported warrant comes from a book written by a Lincoln confidant and bodyguard named Ward Lamon in the 1880s.