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To: AntiGovernment

Lincoln ignored Chief Justice Taney's order to cancel the suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War. Taney was then sitting on the United States Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. The justices of the Supreme Court traditionally sat as circuit judges while the Supreme Court was not in session.

See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_parte_Merryman


24 posted on 06/29/2006 7:51:14 AM PDT by blitzgig
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To: blitzgig

Yep, I remembered that one, but it wasn't the Supreme Court decision I was looking for.


37 posted on 06/29/2006 8:07:54 AM PDT by AntiGovernment (A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.)
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