Ex parte Merryman

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Ex parte Merryman was an 1861 U.S. federal court case in which Chief Justice Roger B. Taney challenged President Abraham Lincoln’s authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.

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Roger B. Taney Court notableCase Ex parte Merryman