As first Chief Justice, his strong nationalist opinions anticipated John Marshall.

The corporation proposed Chief Justice Anderson for an arbiter, sending him a gift of sack and claret.

In an age of oratory, he was the king of orators, and both he himself and Chief Justice Marshall were bathed in manly tears, as Uncle Dan'l reached his thundering climax:

In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford ; Chief Justice Roger B. Taney opined that blacks were not citizens, and derived no rights from the Constitution.

John Merryman, a leader in the secessionist group in Maryland, petitioned Chief Justice Roger B. Taney to issue a writ of habeas corpus, saying holding Merryman without a hearing was unlawful.

To fill Chief Justice Taney's seat on the Supreme Court, he named the choice of the Radicals, Salmon P. Chase, who Lincoln believed would uphold the emancipation and paper money policies.

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision said that slaves were " so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect ".

The doctrine that no man can cast off his native allegiance without the consent of his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice John Rutledge also declared in Talbot v. Janson, " a man may, at the same time, enjoy the rights of citizenship under two governments.

It consists of a Chief Justice and an Associate Justice, appointed by the United States Secretary of the Interior.

* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875

* 2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.

" Lincoln died around 7: 00 A. M .; Johnson's swearing in occurred at 11: 00 that morning with Chief Justice Salmon Chase presiding in the presence of most of the cabinet.

Many officials, including those from Maryland, Virginia and Louisiana, as well as Chief Justice Chase personally, underscored for the President that the Southern states were economically in a state of chaos and governmental disorganization, and most anxious to reach agreements that would restore them to the Union.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

* 1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada ( b. 1836 )

It acquired its distinctive large crack sometime in the early 19th century — a widespread story claims it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835.

* 1925 – Anthony Mason, Australian judge and Air Force Officer, Chief Justice of Australia

Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States.

Associate Justices, like the Chief Justice, are nominated by the President of the United States and are confirmed by the United States Senate by majority vote.

Each of the Justices of the Supreme Court has a single vote in deciding the cases argued before it ; the Chief Justice's vote counts no more than that of any other Justice.

However, in drafting opinions, the Chief Justice enjoys additional influence in case disposition if in the majority through his power to assign who writes the opinion.

Furthermore, the Chief Justice leads the discussion of the case among the justices.

The Chief Justice has certain administrative responsibilities that the other Justices do not and is paid slightly more ($ 223, 500 per year for the Chief Justice and $ 213, 900 per year for each Associate Justice ).

The Chief Justice, Sir John Latham, served from 1940 to 1941 as Australia's first ambassador to Japan, although his activities in this role were limited by the mutual assistance pact that Japan had entered into with the Axis powers before he could arrive in Tokyo, and were curtailed by the commencement of the Pacific War.

The court under Chief Justice Sir John Latham, who came to the office in 1935, was punctuated by World War II.

Sir John Greig Latham GCMG QC ( 26 August 1877 – 25 July 1964 ) was an Australian judge and politician who served as fifth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia for seventeen years, from 1935 to 1952.

Latham was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia on 11 October 1935.

In the 1920s, Dixon was a prominent member of the Victorian Bar, along with his colleagues and friends John Latham ( who preceded Dixon as Chief Justice ) and Robert Menzies ( later the longest serving Prime Minister of Australia ).

From 1922 to 1994, it was held by only three members -- former Opposition Leader and future Chief Justice John Latham, former Prime Minister Robert Menzies and former Opposition Leader Andrew Peacock.

Membership included Governors General Sir Isaac Isaacs, Sir Ninian Stephen, Archbishop Peter Hollingworth ; Governors of Victoria Sir Henry Winneke, Sir James Gobbo, the Hon Alex Chernov AC ; Chief Justices of Australia Sir John Latham, Sir Owen Dixon ; High Court Justices Sir Daryl Dawson and Kenneth Madison Hayne AC ; Chief Justices of Victoria Sir William Foster Stawell, Sir William Irvine, Sir Frederick Mann, Sir Edmund Herring, Sir Henry Winneke and Sir John Young ; Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, politicians Sir John Bloomfield, Andrew Peacock, Admiral Sir William Bridges ; Generals Sir Brudenall White, Sir William Johnston, artists Sir Arthur Streeton and Sir Daryl Lindsay ; mining magnates Sir James Balderstone, Hugh Morgan, BHP-Billiton businessmen Don Argus, and former head of Shell Australia and vice president of the International Olympic Committee Kevan Gosper.

The suburb is named for John Latham, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1935 to 1952.

Chief Moore said, `` If I don't see you when I return, see you for certain at my road block, Inspector ''.

Shortly after the Chief Executive returned to Washington in midmorning from Hyannis Port, Mass., a White House spokesman said the address text still had `` quite a way to go '' toward completion.

One of these men is former Fire Chief John A. Laughlin, he said.

Assistant Fire Chief Chester Cornell said gas fumes apparently were ignited by a candle which one of the three Kowalski girls present held for her mother, because the flat lacked electricity.

General Ludendorff, Germany's Chief of Staff, said:

Eurotunnel Chairman & Chief Executive Jacques Gounon said that experience gained from the disruptions of December 2009 had shown that shorter trains are easier to evacuate in an emergency.

Speaking at the 2007 budget session, Peter Caruana, the Chief Minister said " The scale of Gibraltar's economic success makes it one of the most affluent communities in the entire world.

Donald Tsang announced that the NPC said it planned to allow the 2017 Chief Executive elections and the 2020 Legislative Council elections to take place by universal suffrage.

But 28 years later, in an appearance on MSNBC television, Falwell said he was not troubled by reports that the nominee for Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John G. Roberts ( whose appointment was confirmed by the U. S. Senate ) had done volunteer legal work for homosexual rights activists on the case of Romer v. Evans.

Although the Basic Law states that the Macau SAR government may " when necessary " ask the central government to allow the garrison to assist in maintaining public order or disaster relief, Chief Executive Ho has said that, in keeping with the Basic Law the garrison will play no role in internal security.

Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations in the OKW, remarked, after Raeder said Kriegsmarine could not meet the operational requirements of the Army, " then a landing in England must be regarded as a sheer act of desperation ".

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on August 5, 2000, " Palestinians are no strangers to compromise.

Chief executive of Playboy Enterprises, Scott Flanders, has said that the cover and centerfold were " somewhat tongue-in-cheek ".

In Harmelin, Justice Scalia, joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist, said " the Eighth Amendment contains no proportionality guarantee ," and that " what was ' cruel and unusual ' under the Eighth Amendment was to be determined without reference to the particular offense.

In Trop v. Dulles,, Chief Justice Earl Warren said: " The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.

" Nothing more is said in the Constitution regarding the office, including any distinction between the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, who are not mentioned in the Constitution.

It is said that some chief justices, notably Earl Warren and Warren Burger, sometimes switched votes to a majority they disagreed with to be able to use this prerogative of the Chief Justice to dictate who would write the opinion.

When Clinton did not respond to his satisfaction, Chief Hendrick said that the " Covenant Chain ", a long-standing friendly relationship between the Iroquois Confederacy and the British Crown, was broken.

A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music, he is said by some sources to have served as a Chief Administrator to the Muslim caliph of Damascus before his ordination.

However, the plan is said to have been scrapped because the local CIA Station Chief, Larry Devlin, refused permission.

In 2009, after Chief of the Galveston Police Department Charles Wiley said that he believed that golf carts should be prohibited outside of golf courses, West End residents started a campaign arguing against the banning of golf carts.

Boyle by this time had been the object of the attacks of Sir Henry Wallop, Treasurer at War, Sir Robert Gardiner, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Robert Dillon, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sir Richard Bingham, Chief Commissioner of Connaught, a demonstration, said Boyle, of their envy of his success and increasing prosperity.,