Yeah, Andrew Jackson: "Justice (Taney?) has ruled, now let him enforce." Pretty cool.
"Yeah, Andrew Jackson: "Justice (Taney?) has ruled, now let him enforce." Pretty cool."
Unfortunately, when Jackson was asserting that, the issue was Indian rights under treaties, and the Supremes were right.
The better examples, which never seem to be cited, were the flurry of Civil War decisions Taney's Supremes made on habeas corpus and other issues, which President Lincoln simply threw in the waste-basket without comment. The Court ordered Lincoln to release people, do thus and so, etc. He systematically disregarded everything the Court said when he did not want to do it. Taney bitterly commented in one of his late opinions that he understood that 'the writ of this Court no longer runs in the land'.
That's what you get, Mr. Taney, for causing a Civil War.