Re: Ever think about who we assasinate?
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The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Roger Taney, declared the action unconstitutional, arguing that only Congress can suspend habeas corpus (the same position that the Supreme Court recently took in the Hamdi and Padilla cases) and Lincoln not only ignored the ruling and continued to do what he wanted to do, but issued an arrest warrant for the 84-year old Chief Justice.
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The bolded is of questionable veracity and likely not true. At the very least, the evidence that Lincoln *issued* an arrest warrant is sketchy at best, and relies on the second hand account of a witness who didn't report the story until 20 years after the fact; and obviously, if such a warrant even existed (which again is a dubious claim at best), Taney was never served the warrant, nor ever arrested. This isn't to claim Lincoln was above arresting political opponents, but there's little evidence he ever tried to arrest Taney.
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