Abust of Roger Brooke Taney's angular, haunted face stares out from atop a pedestal at Frederick City Hall, and he is featured prominently on lists of the city's most revered former residents. A ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia City Council will vote on Thursday on a bill that would change the name of Taney Street in the city's Grays Ferry neighborhood. That miles-long block is named after ...
Chief On March 6, 1857, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney oversaw a 7-2 vote against enslaved spouses Dred Scott and Harriet Scott, who ...
Goode, George Brown, ed. The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of Its First Half Century. Washington, D.C.: De Vinne Press, 1897., p. 834 Smithsonian ...
A statue of the justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery will be removed from City Hall grounds in Frederick, Md., this weekend. Officials announced Thursday that busts of U.S.
1857—Chief Justice Taney’s ruling in Dred Scott marks the Supreme Court’s first use of the modern liberal judicial activist’s favorite tool—“substantive due process”—to invalidate a statute. In ...
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