"That has never been proven. It is just part of the neo-reb rant."
Man you're really getting weak now. Ever heard of Ex parte Merryman? That was the rebuke for taking away habeas corpus. 'Lincoln had taken the position that he had the right to suspend the writ without Congressional approval, and that he had the say on the final Constitutional question, not the court, and his power to make such a determination was a higher power than the Supreme Court. Lincoln thus put himself above the Congress, above the Supreme Court, and above the Constitution. He was an absolute ruler, like the tyrants of ancient Greece and the Caesars of Rome.'
The order to arrest Taney was given to US Marshal Lamon personally by Lincoln. The account of the plan to arrest the Chief Justice and the order for his arrest is confirmed by two trustworthy independent source of information - Lamon himself, in his personal papers in the Huntington Library's rare book and manuscript collection, and Professor Francis Lieber, author of the famous Lieber Code, which Lincoln endorsed. Lieber noted that Lincoln gave Marshal Lamon the arrest warrant for Taney along with permission to make the arrest. Both Lieber and Lamon were life long ardent unionists.