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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Someone is confused
Taney was Catholic
In fact the first Catholic justice appointed to the USSC
KKK?
Nope
Abe Lincoln’s Chief Justice of the USSC didn’t play that game
Taney inherited slaves and freed them with lifetime pensions
He died just after the war


26 posted on 08/14/2017 8:00:56 PM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: silverleaf

Not confused, see my followup post regarding a 20th century case.


41 posted on 08/14/2017 8:43:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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