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To: RummyChick

“Calling history buffs. Who was the last president to skip the funeral of a sitting SCOTUS Justice?”

Sitting or retired.


26 posted on 02/17/2016 11:25:19 AM PST by Durbin
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To: Durbin

Lincoln issued an arrest warrant for Chief Justice Roger Taney because Taney wrote an opinion disagreeing with Lincoln’s Suspension of Habeas Corpus. A lot of presidents since the Founding have thought they were kings and didn’t to answer to anyone, especially the Constitution.


159 posted on 02/17/2016 1:18:46 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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