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...Ryan W. Taney ’09, the manager for the self-dubbed “joke campaign” of Michael C. Koenigs ’09 and Aneliese K. Palmer ’12, said the extended campaign will help his candidates build a grassroots movement that draws largely upon “disillusioned seniors...
...specialized court. The Roberts Court exemplifies a striking change in the anthropology of the high tribunal. For much of the institution's history, Justices arrived from diverse backgrounds. Some were distinguished lawyers in private practice, such as Louis Brandeis and Lewis Powell. Some were presidential advisers--like Roger Taney, James Byrnes and Abe Fortas. Dwight Eisenhower put Earl Warren in the job after the then Governor locked up California for Ike in 1952. There have been relatively obscure state-court judges like William Brennan and Sandra Day O'Connor, law professors like Felix Frankfurter and even a former President, William...
...Breyer provided more speculation as to why Taney wrote such a broad, extreme opinion when a more modest one would have been legally stronger...
...According to Breyer, one potential explanation is that Taney might have tried to cut a deal with Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, a staunch abolitionist, to dismiss the case, but that Curtis’ might have rejected the deal, prompting Taney to take a hard-line position...
...Taney could have responded, ‘Fine, you write what you want, and I’ll write what I want.’” Breyer said. “And then the country’s down the drain...