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  Taney Arrest Warrant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Taney Arrest Warrant is a recent conjectural controversy in Abraham Lincoln scholarship.
The arrest warrant story is a recent "rediscovery" in Lincoln lore, though early references to it appear in documents contemporaneous to the Merryman case.
During the Merryman case, Justice Taney is also known to have communicated knowledge of an unnamed "consultation" for his arrest to George William Brown, the mayor of Baltimore, who was present in his courtroom at the time of the verdict.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taney_Arrest_Warrant   (919 words)

  
 Lincoln’s Presidential Warrant to Arrest Chief Justice Roger B. Taney by Charles Adams
Taney’s opinion exacerbated the delicate situation in Maryland, a border state yet undecided in its commitment to the Union.
The account of the warrant to arrest the Chief Justice cannot be found in any of the innumerable Lincoln biographies or accounts of the early days of the Civil War.
In his circuit in Maryland, Taney delayed a number of treason trials, as it was his right to do controlling the docket, because with the passion of the times, he doubted a fair trial could be had.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig2/adams3.html   (1638 words)

  
 Roger B. Taney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Taney was born to a wealthy Roman Catholic slave-owning family that raised tobacco in Calvert County, Maryland.
Taney began his political career in Maryland in 1799 as a Federalist, elected at age 22 to the House of Delegates.
Some scholars argue that Lincoln made an aborted attempt to arrest Taney himself in response to his habeas corpus decision, though the evidence is relatively sparse, highly controversial, and currently unresolved (see the Taney Arrest Warrant controversy).
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 SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS
That the petitioner was arrested by the orders of the majorgeneral commanding in Pennsylvania, upon the charge of treason, in being 'publicly associated with and holding a commission as lieutenant in a company having in their possession arms belonging to the United States, and avowing his purpose of armed hostility against the government.' 2.
Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Baltimore, Md.Sir: The undersigned, to whom the annexed writ, of this date, signed by Thomas Spicer, clerk of the supreme court of the United States, is directed, most respectfully states, that the arrest of Mr.
And yet, even at that day, the warrant was regarded as such a flagrant violation of the rights of the subject that the delay of the timeserving judges to set him at liberty, upon the habeas corpus issued in his behalf, excited the universal indignation of the bar.
shs.westport.k12.ct.us /jwb/AP/HabeasCorpus.htm   (3463 words)

  
 Ex parte Merryman - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
The clash between Taney and the various generals who essentially represented Lincoln is a good example of the conflict between idealism and pragmatism that characterizes much of the debate on this topic.
Taney showed beyond the shadow of a doubt that Lincoln's actions were entirely contrary to written law.
The manuscript and evidence are a relatively new discovery in the historical literature and the story's authenticity is hotly contested and controversial (see the Taney Arrest Warrant controversy).
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Ex_parte_Merryman   (943 words)

  
 Federal Arrest Warrant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Preliminary Hearing A warrant may be executed or a summons served within the jurisdiction of the United States or anywhere else a federal statute authorizes an arrest.
(A) A warrant is In 2004 Elsafi was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami Dade County Florida for international parental kidnapping and claims a federal warrant was issued for his arrest.
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www.theclosingargument.com /federal-arrest-warrant.htm   (329 words)

  
 Lincoln’s 'Great Crime': The Arrest Warrant for the Chief Justice by Thomas DiLorenzo
Imagine that he is so demonized that President Bush is emboldened to issue an arrest warrant for the chief justice, effectively destroying the constitutional separation of powers and declaring himself dictator.
Taney’s opinion, issued as part of his duties as a circuit court judge in Maryland, had to do with the case of Ex Parte Merryman (May 1861).
In it is the transcript of a conversation Mayor Brown had with Taney in which Taney talks of his knowledge that Lincoln had issued an arrest warrant for him.
www.lewrockwell.com /dilorenzo/dilorenzo75.html   (1144 words)

  
 The Provost-Marshal And The Citizen
As no posse could execute the writ by force, Justice Taney ordered a copy sent to the President, who was advised by the attorney general that he had the power to suspend the writ whenever be deemed it necessary, and that this was a part of the warpowers granted by the Constitution.
The most important arrest in connection with the Sons of Liberty was that of Colonel Lambdin P. Milligan, whose case is important also in that it settled definitely certain disputed questions in Constitutional law.
The persons arrested have been taken either by officers of the army commanding in the field or by provost-marshals exercising authority of a similar nature, and the ground for arrest is, or ought to be, founded upon some necessity, or be justified as a proper precaution against an apparent danger."
www.civilwarhome.com /ProvostMarshal.htm   (3746 words)

  
 Ex Parte Merryman by R. B. Taney, Chief Justice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He states that the prisoner was arrested by order of Gen. Keim, of Pennsylvania, and conducted as a prisoner to Fort McHenry by his order, and placed in his (Gen. Cadwalader’s) custody, to be there detained by him as a prisoner.
A copy of the warrant, or order, under which the prisoner was arrested, was demanded by his counsel, and refused.
And having the prisoner thus in custody upon these vague and unsupported accusations, he refuses to obey the writ of habeas corpus, upon the ground that he is duly authorized by the President to suspend it.
teachingamericanhistory.org /library/index.asp?document=442   (2733 words)

  
 Ex parte Merryman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taney went by the lawbooks (although Taney was also a partisan opponent of Lincoln's Republican administration) and understandably raged against Lincoln spontaneously and unconstitutionally granting himself easily abused powers.
Its legal argument holding that Congress alone may suspend the writ is noted for reiterating the opinion of John Marshall and the court in Ex Parte Bollman (1807) and was recently restated by the Supreme Court in Hamdi v.
Taney then orders the case to be "filed and recorded in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Maryland".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ex_parte_Merryman   (1017 words)

  
 Lincoln Crossing the Rubicon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One unfortunate fellow, while drunk, was arrested and imprisoned for shouting, “Hurrah for Jeff Davis!” Under the Bill of Rights, a person cannot be charged with a crime except by an indictment from a grand jury, nor can a person be convicted except by a jury of fellow civilians.
Taney could have organized an armed posse of deputy marshalls to arrest the general, but that might have resulted in bloodshed and was avoided.
And remember: Taney was simply doing his duty, as under the Constitution the Supreme Court has the final say on Constitutional issues, not the president, not the Congress, not anyone else.
www.fff.org /freedom/1100e.asp   (1601 words)

  
 Speech - May 3, 2000
Taney refused, and issued an arrest warrant for the commandant.
Taney then issued an opinion in the case declaring that the President alone did not have the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus -- only Congress could do that -- and holding that Merryman's confinement was illegal.
All were ultimately arrested by the FBI in New York or Chicago; all had been instructed to destroy war industries in the United States.
www.supremecourtus.gov /publicinfo/speeches/sp_05-03-00.html   (3758 words)

  
 baldknobbers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Taney county was to remain like this for most of the next two decades.
Taney was considered a haven for the outlaws and lawbreakers of the Ozarks and like the new settlers they also flocked to the area.
However, the Baldknobbers of Taney county had influenced others in adjacent counties and it was here that the Baldknobbers gained their most notoriety as well as exhibited their greatest degree of violence.
www.republic.k12.mo.us /highschool/teachers/tstephen/bald.htm   (2740 words)

  
 Significant United States Supreme Court Cases
She was arrested, prosecuted, found guilty, and sentenced for possession of pornographic material.
He was was arrested and charged with "attempting to cause insubordination in the military and naval forces of the United States" and with disturbing the draft.
Arrested by police officers on the scene, Johnson was prosecuted and convicted under a Texas law which prohibited desecration of the Texas and United States flags.
www.whc.net /irish/government/ap/cases.htm   (11058 words)

  
 Occupied territories
Persons arrested for common crimes usually are provided with a statement of charges and access to an attorney, and may apply for bail.
Even if an arrest becomes known, it is often difficult to obtain information on where a detainee is being held or whether the detainee has access to an attorney.
On May 5, PA officials arrested one of the leaders of a teachers' strike and temporarily closed down the radio station that broadcast an interview in which the leader accused the PA of inefficiency.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/nea/index.cfm?docid=882   (18205 words)

  
 Ex Party Merryman
His lawyers asked Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney to issue a writ of habeas corpus, which would have delivered Merryman into the hands of the courts for a civil trial.
Taney, who also presided over the Maryland circuit, ordered the writ to be issued.
Taney said that the general represented "a force too strong for me to overcome.
staff.jccc.net /vclark/doc16-4-2.htm   (654 words)

  
 Taney Arrest Warrant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
That Lincoln made an aborted attempt to arrest Taney himself in response to his habeas corpus is sparse.
Bush is emboldened to issue an arrest warrant for the chief justice effectively destroying the Lincoln issued an arrest warrant for Chief Justice Roger B. Lincoln's Presidential Warrant to Arrest Chief Justice Roger B. Taney.
Bush is emboldened to issue an arrest warrant for the chief justice, effectively destroying the...
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 THE GREAT EXTREMIST
Taney held that Lincoln had acted unconstitutionally in several respects.
In an unusual move, Taney appeared in public before a large crowd to dramatize the issue, announcing that he himself might be arrested before nightfall.
Taney was 83 years old, very courageous, and ready to fight for principle.
www.papillonsartpalace.com /greaet.htm   (656 words)

  
 Lincoln’s 'Great Crime': The Arrest Warrant for the Chief Justice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Opposed to the arbitrary arrests and abuse of civil liberties, Carmichael instructed grand juries to indict the persons who made or abetted such arrests.
It was, on full consideration, deemed expedient that the arrest should be made in Court in order that the proceeding might be the more marked.
That should be "alleged warrant on Taney." That'll teach me to type posts and watch Fox n' Friends at the same time.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-backroom/1195393/posts   (5649 words)

  
 The Truth About Tariffs (James McPherson on civil war tariffs)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The two Taney accounts, which appear in books by their authors that were published in the 1870's and 80's but are obscure today, were only brought to public attention a few months ago.
A warrant or order was issued for his arrest." Lamon was given this document (whatever exactly it was) by Lincoln himself, but told to use his own judgement about actually making the arrest, unless Lincoln gave further instructions.
Lamon quotes multiple paragraphs from Taney's _Merryman_ opinion, a public document, but passes over the alleged warrant (or whatever it was), a historic matter of which he has sole knowledge, in only a couple of sentences.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1069109/posts   (7148 words)

  
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Fifth, on April 27, he suspended the right of habeas corpus ---- unquestionably one of the most important of our civil liberties, for it prohibits government from making arrests without just cause, that is, from locking people up and throwing the key away, so to speak.
Preceding the arrest of the Maryland legislators, Lincoln's most shocking, even treacherous act, swept under the rug by Lincoln's loving biographers, grew out of ex parte Merryman.
As an alternative approach, Taney wrote a blistering opinion ---- today considered one of the greatest opinions of the Supreme Court ---- and had a copy delivered to President Lincoln.
www.federationofstates.org /Lincoln.htm   (1612 words)

  
 Felipe Sagastizado Warrant For Arrest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 Ex Parte Merryman (1861) - Reviews on RateItAll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
His arrest was based on a vague suspicion of treason.
The case came to Chief Justice Taney for in those days the members of the Supreme Court rode circuit and this case came before him as circuit judge.
Some historians allege that Lincoln had an arrest warrant issued for Taney, because of this opinion, but then Lincoln changed his mind and had it withdrawn.
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 Historical Figures - Abraham Lincoln
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After the "Sioux Uprising" of August 1862 in Minnesota, Lincoln was presented with 303 death warrants for convicted Santee Dakota who had taken part.
Some scholars have argued that Lincoln's political arrests extended to the highest levels of the government including an attempted warrant for Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, though the allegation remains unresolved and controversial (see the Taney Arrest Warrant controversy).
www.dailypast.com /historical-figures/abraham-lincoln3.shtml   (1871 words)

  
 Abraham Lincoln - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12 1809, in a one-room log cabin on the 348 acre (1.4 km²) Sinking Spring Farm in the Southeast part of Hardin County, Kentucky, then considered the frontier (now part of LaRue Co., in Nolin Creek, three miles (5 km) south of Hodgenville), to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks.
After the fighting started he had rebel leaders arrested in all the border areas and held in military prisons without trial; over 18,000 were arrested.
There is a fragment of uncorroborated evidence that someone in his administration made contingency plans to arrest Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney; (see the Taney Arrest Warrant controversy).
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Abraham_Lincoln   (8970 words)

  
 Abraham Lincoln - The Secret of His Success   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Critics vehemently attacked him for violating the Constitution, overstepping the traditional bounds of executive power, refusing to compromise on slavery in the territories, declaring martial law, suspending habeas corpus, and for ordering the arrest of some adversarial state government officials and a number of publishers.
Lincoln is most famous for his roles in preserving the Union and ending slavery in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Presented with 303 death warrants for convicted Santee Dakota who had massacred innocent farmers, Lincoln affirmed 39 of these for execution (one was later reprieved).
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 Roger B. Taney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roger Brooke Taney (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864, name pronounced like Tawney) was the twelfth United States Attorney General and the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, from 1836 until his death in 1864, and the first Roman Catholic to hold that office.
By the time he wrote his opinion in Dred Scott he labeled the opposition to slavery as "northern aggression," a popular phrase among Southern patriots.
Upon hearing the news of Taney's passing the previous year, he wrote President Abraham Lincoln in celebration declaring that "Providence has given us a victory" in Taney's death.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_Taney   (1341 words)

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