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To: Tzfat
history is written by the winner

Myths are written by the losers.

But, having said that, you read a book one time that did not mention it, so I suppose you think that settles it.

Two books by men who spent considerable time researching Chief Justice Taney and who wrote detailed accounts of his life and career and neither of which placed any credibility to your charge. You troll a couple of Reb websites and suddenly you're the expert.

On the suspension of habeus corpus, you cited the Constitution, but what you failed to cite was the Constitutional authority for Lincoln to suspend it.

Article I, Section 9 as I said. That clause does not say who had the authority to suspend it, and jurists as recent as William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Conner have said that whether or not the president can suspend habeas corpus has never definitively been decided.

Chief Justice Taney ruled that Lincoln was ex-Constitutional in his arrest and imprisonment of Maryland legislator John Merryman...

He was not a member of the legislature. Just the militia.

...which is why Lincoln arranged for Taney's arrest.

And yet Taney was never arrested.

In 1866, the Supreme Court of the US ruled (again) that only Congress can suspend habeus corpus.

Really? What case?

What you Lincoln worshippers fail to realize is that unless you worship Obama too, your inconsistencies are writ large. Obama's lawlessness is best paralleled by Lincoln's lawlessness.

And it's truly sad that you Lincoln haters can't see just how idiotic that statement is.

If you are truly a conservative (which is very much in doubt), you would be first in line to denounce it if Obama imprisoned an elected official of a State, without charge and without trial.

Now you're just being silly.

177 posted on 07/12/2015 6:05:47 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
Really? What case?

Ex parte McCardle

But you will continue to raise the straw man, the faux conservative that you are.
178 posted on 07/12/2015 6:26:58 AM PDT by Tzfat
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