[DiogenesLamp]

Oh, and please tell us again why not a single one of Taney's biographers include anything about an arrest warrant

How many Kennedy Biographers mentioned what an utter piece of sh*t he was?

Lincoln is idolized in certain circles. The same forbearance regarding objectively ugly truths hold sway.

[rockrr]

So it's not the weight of the evidence but the seriousness of the crime? How very progressive of you.

[DoodleDawg]

How many Kennedy Biographers mentioned what an utter piece of sh*t he was?

So you're saying that none of the Taney biographers mentioned the arrest warrant because they thought it might make Taney look bad? Really? How did it make him look bad?

Lincoln is idolized in certain circles. The same forbearance regarding objectively ugly truths hold sway.

And you might have a point, however small, if we were dealing with biographies of Lincoln. But I'm talking about men who wrote very learned and well researched biographies on Roger Brooke Taney. The 11th Attorney General of the United states. The 12th Secretary of the Treasury. The 5th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. And in none of those biographies did any of them talk about an arrest warrant on Taney. Why not?