This guy wasn't even a Confederate, he simply made a Supreme Court ruling that people in 2017 don't like.
Based in the Taney Court decision people in 1864 didnt “ like” what the Constitution said or didnt say, so they amended the Constitution
Thats how a democratic republic operates
Gee if Taney ( a democrat) had legislated Dred-Scott from the bench and the Court had accepted Dred’s lawsuit, would we even have had a civil war and abolished slavery outright? Would Lincoln have become President?
The decision was enormously - maybe more - unpopular in 1857 too. It was a breathtaking exercise of judicial activism, dramatically limiting the ability of states to pass their own laws regarding slavery by declaring - in openly racist and unconstitutional language that black people were an inferior race and couldn’t be citizens - even though there was zero legal basis for that decision.