How to pronounce“taney”in English

Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote in the majority opinion that Scott did not, because he didn’t have the standing to sue because enslaved African-Americans

I have a lot of feelings about Taney that aren’t appropriate to say in this video.

Justice Taney continued and said, "When the founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, the legitimacy of slavery, quote, was fixed and universal

I mean, Taney’s ruling basically said that all black people anywhere in the United States could be considered property, and that the court was in the business of protecting that property.

Chief Justice Taney stated that blacks were not citizens because at the time that the Constitution was drafted they were, quote,

Because here’s the thing: In the Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Taney said that black Americans had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

And if that wasn’t enough, Justice Taney stated that even free Black people in the north could never be considered