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September 02, 2017

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Deep State Special Legal Counsel

The "removal" that should irritate all attorneys, judges and historians is that of Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney who authored the Dred Scott majority opinion. He was the Chief Justice who presided over the Court for 28 years.

This removal prompted me to purchase a biography by Walker Lewis. Let me quote from p. 377, Chapter 28. "An awakening of conscience was sweeping the country, demanding a solution of the slavery problem faster than Constitutional process could accommodate it. In the path of this tide, by virtue of his office, stood the Chief Justice, in his own conscience opposed to slavery but sworn to uphold the Constitution as he saw it."

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