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Lawyer in frederick county, maryland, taney had defended jacob gruber, an antislavery methodist minister accused of disturbing the peace and inciting rebellion. And in the process, taney had cited the declaration of independence in support of his antislavery views and had actually called slavery a blot on our national character. The author of the unjust judge made much of this type of change of heart, describing taney as failing to live up to his early ideals as well as those of the nations founders. In hid analysis, he said that africanamericans, contrary to taneys assertion, had been included in the Political Community at the time of the founding. But more than an academic criticism of taneys reasoning in the dred scott came in t, t unjust judge constituted a rhetorical assault on the character of the nations fifth chief justice. The author excoriated taney as a malevolent old man engaged in the most nefarious of purposes, ....
Career. The Supreme CourtHistorical Society hosted this hourlong discussion. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Supreme Court. Its great to see so many people here for the Supreme CourtHistorical Society second lecture of the 2014 leon the society was formed in 1974 by chief Justice Warren burger with the notion of promoting public understanding of the history of the court. It does that in many ways, through lectures like thesic through the publication three times of year of the journal of Supreme Court history, and through the acquisition of portraits of the justices for display in the ....