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Taney was Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, a position to which he was appointed by President Jackson in the 1830s. He continued in this job until he died in 1864, during the war. Early in the war his court made some rulings against Lincoln's administration. For instance, Lincoln was locking up suspected secessionists, without charges or trials, including the governor and the entire legislature of Maryland. Lincoln said it would be insane to obey Taney's court rulings and preserve that one part of the Constitution, the right of Habeus Corpus, while the entire nation disintegrated. So Lincoln ignored Taney (who was probably Constitutionally correct on this indefinite detention without charges or trials) and went on doing what he thought had to be done. Probably the best thing Taney did for the northern war effort was to die, which gave Lincoln the chance to name Salmon P. Chase as the new Chief Justice in 1864. Chase was shaping up to be Lincoln's most dangerous rival for the presidential election of 1864.

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