Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) was an American political leader and as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court greatly contributed to constitutional law. Roger B. Taney was born in Calvert County, Md., on March 17, 1777, into a landed, slaveholding...

Roger Brooke Taney was an American political leader and as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court greatly contributed to constitutional law. Roger B. Taney was born in Calvert County, Md., on March 17, 1777, into a landed, slaveholding family that...

On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney of the Supreme Court delivered an opinion that, in the view of many, would decide the survival or the destruction of the United States. The bitter controversy over slavery that was dividing free states...

Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced Tawney) (March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. He also was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864, and was the...

I read with interest about the name change of the Roger B. Taney Middle School to honor Thurgood Marshall {Metro, March 5}. Indeed Justice Marshall is more than worthy of such honor. However, saying that Roger Taney upheld slavery and was a racist requires...

Helen Gallagher Taney's defense {letters, March 26} of Chief Justice Roger Taney was historically inaccurate. She said Judge Taney was merely upholding the Founding Fathers and that his opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford restated the constitutional principle that a free black person could...

A century and a half after the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that no black _ slave or free _ could ever become a U.S. citizen, the case's legacy is still being debated.The fallout from the 1857 decision, which helped spark the...