Taney IS an odd choice of someone to celebrate.
It's more of a coincidence than anything else. This class of 327-feet cutters is called the Secretary class. Taney was a Treasury Department secretary who later became a Supreme Court justice. Read more below and at the link:
The Coast Guard named the 327s for former Department of Treasury secretaries. The class included namesakes Alexander Hamilton, George Campbell, Samuel Ingham, William Duane, Roger Taney, John Spencer and George Bibb.
The Long Blue Line: 327-foot Secretary Class Cutters “the ships that wouldn’t die”
The Taney is only one that survives.
(Pronounced TAWNey, BTW)
Actually he had a pretty good reputation prior to Dred Scott. I think his logic in the decision was pretty good; and the case was decided 7-2. But then "Honest Abe" started a war to overturn the decision.
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Roger Taney was a pretty remarkable figure. First Catholic USSC justice, appointed by Andrew Jackson, served under 4 Presidents, was despised by Lincoln, was married to a sister of Francis Scott Key, died in poverty when his family holdings were bankrupted by the Civil War, his will freed all slaves still held by his family, died on the day slavery was abolished in MD.
His opinion was based on what he and the majority of other Justices interpreted in the Constitution, it was a 7-2 decision. The cure was to amend the Constitution, not legislate from the bench..