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by bradleyjg
4738 days ago
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The warrant, if there was one, never issued. The case in question was Ex parte Merryman. Justice Taney was sitting as a Circuit Court (middle level federal court) judge for the case, as was the usual practice for Supreme Court Justices at the time. Historical evidence for the purported warrant comes from a book written by a Lincoln confidant and bodyguard named Ward Lamon in the 1880s. |
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