(Davis). He is probably one of the most remembered Supreme Court Chief Justices, and many of his landmark decisions still are in place today.
Roger Taney attempted to undo many of the decisions John Marshall had put in place, and he was openly racist, as well. The Dred Scott Decision, which was reached in 1857, was one of his most famous rulings. The ruling said that slaves could not become freemen, even if they traveled to free territ
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