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To: DoodleDawg
The first half is possibly correct. The second half is Southron BS. Regardless, in a Jeff Davis Confederacy a Jim Bob Merryman or a Bubba Milligan would have been out of luck, what with Davis ignoring the requirement for a Supreme Court and all.

False. We've had this discussion before and I provided the links. Lincoln signed the arrest warrant for Taney. As for Jefferson Davis, he trampled on civil liberties FAR less than Lincoln did. Even chief PC Revisionist James McPherson admitted that....as the cited quote I already provided before showed.

78 posted on 01/21/2022 5:56:33 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird
False. We've had this discussion before and I provided the links.

We have. And I have also pointed out that none of Taney's biographers found any credible evidence supporting the arrest warrant claim so none included it in their works. And I'll add the most credible biographer of all - more credible than Newmeyer, Schumacher/Gringhus, Steiner, and Simon and that is Taney himself. In his own written memoir, edited and published by Samuel Tyler in 2018, Taney doesn't mention any plot to have him arrested. Why do you think that all these biographers, and Taney himself, didn't mention it?

As for Jefferson Davis, he trampled on civil liberties FAR less than Lincoln did. Even chief PC Revisionist James McPherson admitted that....as the cited quote I already provided before showed.

Others would disagree on that, Mark Neely for example. People were arrested for political reasons from literally the first day of the rebellion until the last. Based on percentage of the population one was more likely to be arrested under Davis as under Lincoln. And, of course, they didn't have a Supreme Court to provide protection.

79 posted on 01/21/2022 6:35:00 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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