[X Fretensis]

Several years ago, I read an article is an issue of the Civil War Times Illustrated. The Article dealt with President Lincoln signing an arrest warrant for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (Taney). The Chief Justice was issuing writs of Habeas Corpus to Maryland legislators arrested but not charged by the Lincoln Administration. Lincoln was mad as hell with Taney for this. He signed the arrest warrant and told the magistrate to not act on it until Lincoln told him to do so. I do not recall the issue the article appeared in. Imagine the political fall out if the President had arrested the Chief Justice.

[iowamark]

The arrest warrant story is unlikely:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taney_Arrest_Warrant

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CE8QFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bu.edu%2Fhistoric%2Fconf2012%2FMagness.doc&ei=fe5AVPfLBIeT8gGZh4DQBA&usg=AFQjCNEifU_GhnEBuET0tdklxtYzDQFaDw&bvm=bv.77648437,d.b2U

[DoodleDawg]

Several years ago, I read an article is an issue of the Civil War Times Illustrated. The Article dealt with President Lincoln signing an arrest warrant for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (Taney). The Chief Justice was issuing writs of Habeas Corpus to Maryland legislators arrested but not charged by the Lincoln Administration. Lincoln was mad as hell with Taney for this. He signed the arrest warrant and told the magistrate to not act on it until Lincoln told him to do so. I do not recall the issue the article appeared in. Imagine the political fall out if the President had arrested the Chief Justice.

Interesting on how every single one of Taney's biographers managed to miss that incident in all their books about the Chief Justice.

[Pelham]

Lincoln’s ‘bodyguard’ Ward Hill Lamon is the man who is alleged to have been given the arrest warrant for Justice Taney.