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To: 4ConservativeJustices
Seems like Lincoln's henchmen had a history of issuing open-ended arrest oreders, even that of another sitting judge, in the middle of a case, in open court.

Lincoln's disregard for the judiciary was far more widespread than most historians will acknowledge. There are no less than FIVE federal rulings (and perhaps more) against the president's purported suspension of habeas corpus by courts all over the country.

Taney's decision in Merryman is the most famous but it's also the only one that ever gets talked about. Federal district courts in St. Louis and New York also ruled against him as did federal circuit courts in Boston and, as noted here, Washington. The case in Boston was even decided against Lincoln by another Supreme Court Justice who, like Taney, was riding the circuit at the time. Lincoln outright shunned all five of them - an action unprecedented by any event in our nation's history before or since then.

97 posted on 08/24/2004 1:43:37 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist

All nicely documented in the huge thread that #3fan trashed and caused to be pulled. Sigh.


102 posted on 08/24/2004 1:58:36 PM PDT by 4CJ (||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
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