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 ).

When Chief Justice Chase died, Grant initially delayed in making the replacement, and after muddling through two failed nominations, the ultimate choice, Morrison Remick Waite was finally confirmed by the Senate.

* March 23 – Morrison Waite, Chief Justice of the United States ( b. 1816 )

He was sworn into office by Chief Justice Morrison Waite on March 4, 1881.

The decision to emphasize the Copyright clause argument was based on both the minority opinion of Judge Sentelle in the appeals court, and on several recent Supreme Court decisions authored by Chief Justice William Rehnquist: United States v. Lopez and United States v. Morrison.

Lessig expressed surprise that no decision was authored by Chief Justice Rehnquist or by any of the other four justices who supported the Lopez or Morrison decisions.

This case was decided 7 to 2 and involved the famous opinion delivered by Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite ( 1816 – 1888 ).

Before publication in United States Reports, Davis wrote a letter to Chief Justice Morrison Waite, dated May 26, 1886, to make sure his headnote was correct:

Sir Louis Hypolite Lafontaine, Bart., then Chief Justice of Lower Canada then married Montreal, January 3oth, 1861, the widowed Jane Élisabeth Geneviève Morrison, ( 1822 – 1905 ) daughter of Charles Morrison, on January 30, 1861.

Jones ' testimony is supported by the former Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence, John Morrison, who informed the same program that, before the operation had ended, DIS came under pressure to validate a prepared statement to be delivered by then Prime Minister Tony Blair, declaring military activity an unqualified success.

Within days of speaking out on the program, Morrison was informed by former New Labour cabinet minister Ann Taylor that he was to lose his job as Chief Investigator to the Intelligence and Security Committee.

* William Garth Morrison ( born 1943 ), Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories

Morrison Remick " Mott " Waite ( November 29, 1816 – March 23, 1888 ) was the seventh Chief Justice of the United States from 1874 to 1888.

Dissenting were Chief Justice Morrison Waite and Justices Joseph Bradley and Horace Gray.

The Morrisons came over from Ness in Lewis in the 16th century as part of the marriage settlement by the Bishop of Caithness to the son of the Chief of the clan Morrison on the occasion of his marriage to the Bishop's daughter.

Additional film roles include " Chief Ten Bears " in Dances with Wolves ( 1990 ), and the “ shaman ” for the singer Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone ’ s The Doors ( 1991 ).

Herbert Morrison spotted him and in 1932 appointed him Chief Whip to the Labour Group, a job he retained until he became Leader.

One theme is its assessment as a " personality ", as a result of an 1886 case in the United States Supreme Court in which a statement by Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite led to corporations as " persons " having the same rights as human beings, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

* Robert F. Morrison ( c. 1840 – 1887 ), 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California

drawing of Chief Justice Morrison Waite.

He studied law in the office of Chief Justice Morrison Waite, and was admitted to the bar at Peru, Indiana in 1865.

A passing remark from Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, recorded by the court reporter before oral argument, now forms the basis for the doctrine that juristic persons are entitled to protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Chief Justice of the United States | Chief Justice Morrison Waite, who wrote the Minor v. Happersett opinion for a unanimous Supreme Court