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Chief justice who wrote a controversial supreme court decision in 1857

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Roger B. Taney

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In the Dredd Scott Case of 1857- Roger B. Taney led the Supreme Court's decision that declared all men of color (free or slave) were not US citizens and could never become US citizens.

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Roger B. Taney

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The Supreme Court was stacked in favor of the slave states. Five of the nine justices were from the South while another, Robert Grier of Pennsylvania, was staunchly pro-slavery. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote the majority decision, which was issued on March 6, 1857.

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