In his written statement before a federal courtroom in Baltimore, Maryland, Roger Taney demanded the body, alive and in person, of

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Roger Taney's written statement before a federal courtroom in Baltimore, Maryland, demanded the body, alive and in person, of John Merryman. Merryman had been detained without trial under Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War. Taney, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at the time, asserted that only Congress had the power to suspend habeas corpus, not the president.

In His Written Statement Before a Federal Courtroom in Baltimore