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Chief Justice Taney returns to Supreme Court

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On prominent display at the Supreme Court is its darkest hour. Encased in glass at the high court is the judicial robe worn by Chief Justice — and former Maryland Attorney General — Roger B. Taney, who wrote the 1857 opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford that blacks are not U.S. citizens and therefore a ...

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