” But then again there were no sitting congressmen arrested or any plan to arrest Chief Justice Taney either. “
Lincoln had at least one Congressman arrested and jailed and he put out orders to arrest Taney but thankfully cooler heads refused to carry out Lincolns’ direct orders.
Facts can be worrisome things. :-)
They can be. Who was the Congressman and why do you suppose that none of Taney's biographers ever mentioned any attempt to arrest him?
There is no documented proof that Lincoln ever ordered the arrest of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The only narrative of the incident is from Ward Lamom in the 1880s. He was a friend and body guard to Lincoln.