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That list includes two chief justices, 3 associate justices, one president and founding father, delegates to the continental congresses and constitutional convention, and participants in the ratification convention. In justices alone, 5 still beats 1 and always will.

None of them had to deal with a giant nest of traitors.

Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice O'connor allow for that when they praise Lincoln.

Walt

Taney had a closer eye to the events of the civil war than any other justice. He not only stated the suspension was unconstitutional but actually ruled on it in a standing case before his court.

But in case you engage in your typical ad hominems against Taney's person, a second justice from the north also had an eyewitness view to the civil war. Benjamin Curtis, the famed dissenter on Dred Scott, wrote a legal textbook on the presidency in 1862 in which he too found Lincoln's actions unconstitutional even in the scenario where they happened.

[Walt] None of them had to deal with a giant nest of traitors.

You must mean like the giant nest of liberals today.

Treason, Ann Coulter, 2003

What do liberals want? Freud would have gone crazy with these people. Figuring out what women want is easy compared to liberals. [p. 15]

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. Fifty years of treason hasn't slowed them down. [p. 16]

It's some psychological block liberals have. Their minds are fine, but the woman wells up in them. [p. 29]

As is usually the case when liberals are the historians, the truth was just the opposite. [p. 64]

Protecting traitors was part of the bonhomie of the ruling class. It was as if the WASPs had developed some XXY chromosome that led to overt treason. They ruled magnificently for many years, but their blood had gotten thin. [p. 83]

The principle result of being called a Communist by McCarthy was you got to teach at Harvard. [p. 92]