The Roberts Court: A Grave Insult to the People
Chief Justice John Roberts, meet Roger Taney, your history big brother.
Abraham Lincoln despised Taney as the legal upholder of white supremacy but had to suffer being sworn in by the old Maryland scarecrow in 1861. In that fraught March moment, the dark past and bright future of America came face to face.
Lincoln defied Taney’s trying to thwart his path to war. It’s always well to see what…