Supreme Court Justices' Signatures

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A signature from Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John Marshall Harlan II (1899-1972), who served on the Court from 1955 to 1971. a note from Justice Robert H. Jackson, and signatures from Chief Justice Roger B. Taney (1777-1864), the fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President Andrew Jackson, a signature from Peter Vivian Daniel (1784-1860), Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, a signature from John McKinley (1780-1852), Alabama senator and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and another Justice’s signature. In March 1857, Chief Justice Taney delivered the majority opinion of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. John Sandford. In one of the most infamous rulings ever handed down by the Court, Taney struck down the portion of the Missouri Compromise that prohibited slavery in federal territories and argued that the Constitution not only protected slavery, but also excluded blacks from citizenship. People of African ancestry, he declared, ‘are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ’citizens’ in the Constitution.’ Therefore, ‘they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.’ Scott had no right to sue in federal court and had never been free.

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15CIN354-670