Preview: Professor John Yoo of Berkeley Law and UT, relates the story of the 1862 demand by the courts of a president who resisted. The president was Lincoln. The court was Chief Justice Roger Taney. More later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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| 0:54.4 | everything secure. This is John Batchel, a conversation with Professor John Yoo writing at the |
| 1:00.0 | Civitas Institute about the history of presidents challenging the courts. In particular, this is |
| 1:07.3 | Lincoln being challenged by Roger Toney, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:12.8 | Very early, April 1861, just after Sumter Tragedy. |
| 1:17.6 | It was an issue of a man who was leading a rebellion in Baltimore, so told. |
| 1:24.3 | However, Justice Taney said, he must be delivered to me, habeas corpus, by the general who arrested him. |
| 1:32.5 | The general refused. |
| 1:34.4 | Justice Tawny then sent the request to Lincoln. |
| 1:39.1 | Here, Professor Yu tells the story with the twist. |
| 1:43.6 | This is April 1861 at the beginning of the massive tragedy of the Civil War that's still with us. |
| 1:52.0 | But this is also the Bozberg analogy of the present confrontation between POTUS and eventually Scotus about the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador over a weekend recent. |
| 2:07.8 | Here's John Yoo telling the story wonderfully. |
| 2:10.9 | Much more of this later tonight. |
| 2:13.2 | This is an amazing story. |
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