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The Supreme Court’s Insertion in Politics: Dred Scott

In arguably one of the most controversial opinions of the United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s opinion in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) contributed to the Panic of 1857 and defined the debates of the Illinois senate race in 1858 between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln.

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