Word: taney
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Somewhat taken aback by the attention given the cronyism issue on the first day, Fortas came prepared for the second with an annotated list of 14 previous Justices who had advised Presidents. The first Chief Justice, John Jay (1789-1795) counseled George Washington.* The fifth, Roger Taney, helped Andrew Jackson. Associate Justice David Davis, Lincoln's close friend and executor, advised the Civil War President, while Louis Brandeis was called in by Woodrow Wilson during several World War I crises. Chief Justice Wil liam Howard Taft, in Fortas' words, "performed extensive advisory services for Presidents Harding, Coolidge...
...twelve times-mostly by Republican Presidents, though perhaps most dramatically in 1916 when Democrat Woodrow Wilson named Louis Brandeis, the court's first Jew, who despite a decidedly Wilsonian record of liberalism was a registered Republican. Harry Truman ignored the Catholic seat, which started with Chief Justice Roger Taney in 1836; no Catholic served on the court throughout Truman's seven-year term. With equal independence, Truman was the only Democrat after Wilson to name a Republican Justice (Burton...
WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, by Walker Lewis. A beguiling if biased biography of U.S. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, an uncompromising constitutionalist whose decision in the Dred Scott case and steadfast opposition to the Lincoln Administration's wartime measures made him one of the most unpopular men of his time...
WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, by Walker Lewis. A beguiling, if somewhat biased biography of U.S. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, an uncompromising old constitutionalist, whose decision in the Dred Scott case and steadfast opposition to wartime measures of the Lincoln Administration made him one of the most unpopular men of his time...
...attacks against him grew in intensity and viciousness, the old Chief Justice's health steadily declined. He was conscious of the gloating watchfulness and sensitive to hostility, which is perhaps why, even near the end, he did not seem to fear or resent death. Indeed, Taney seemed to be more concerned with the fact that the war was interfering with his supply of Cuban Principes...