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It's amazing how when it comes to the confederate supreme court, or anything else to do with the confederacy for that matter, it's never Jeff Davis's fault.

Glad you finally agree.

But anything having to do with the Union is always Abe Lincoln's fault.

I gather Lincoln didn't veto the bill expanding the court. Here's an old post about this issue (no sense retyping it). [Link]

Besides, Merryman was not a Supreme Court case.

Taney thought so. See Link. In the discussion about habeas corpus that followed that post you got handed your head, two ears, and your tail by a knowledgeable poster.

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I gather Lincoln didn't veto the bill expanding the court. Here's an old post about this issue (no sense retyping it).

Why should he? Supreme Court justices each had a circuit that they were responsible. Ten circuits, ten justices.

Taney thought so.

No he didn't.

In the discussion about habeas corpus that followed that post you got handed your head, two ears, and your tail by a knowledgeable poster.

Only because you never bothered to read the decision. Had you done so then you would have realized the error in your arguement. But if I got handed my head then so did the entire legal community. None of them consider it a Supreme Court case, either.