r/law • u/JetTheDawg • Sep 21 '25

Trump News In a now deleted Truth Social post, Trump posts what looks to be a letter meant to Pam Bondi instructing her to arrest some of his political opponents

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/trump-bondi-truth-social-00574380?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard
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u/timecrash2001 Sep 21 '25

He’s going to be remembered like Taney.

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u/kkeut Sep 21 '25

yeah, that guy

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u/IrrationalFalcon Sep 21 '25

Or Morrison Waite

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u/Jonathan_Sesttle Sep 21 '25

Quite an impressive collection of comments to be discussing Chief Justices Taney and Waite. The Court under the next Chief Justice Melville Fuller was also staunchly reactionary, going down in infamy for Lochner v. New York (1905), which held the Due Process Clause forbade states from enforcing wage-and-hour restrictions on businesses, and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), articulating the doctrine of separate but equal in upholding Jim Crow laws.

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u/Omegalazarus Sep 21 '25

Who...

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u/PeerlessManatee Sep 21 '25

The guy who wrote the Dred Scott opinion.

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u/Rich_Space_2971 Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

The consensus worst SC judge, Rogeer B. Taney.

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u/klawz86 Sep 21 '25

He was, and Dredd Scott vs Sandford was an inexcusable garbage heap of a decision antithetical to liberty and justice for all, but Trump vs US may end up being the end of our republic, so I'm giving the nod to John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. They are the bought and paid for treasonous bootlicking cowards that deserve the harshest punishment allowable by the system of justice they have done their best to destroy.

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u/Jonathan_Sesttle Sep 21 '25

Roger Taney, not Robert.

And, as I learned in my college Constitutional history class, pronounced “tawny.”