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3 Supreme Court Justices who had ruled in the majority in Dred Scott v. Sanford; James Moore Wayne, Samuel Nelson, and Robert Cooper Grier, still sat on the court after the Civil War. How were they viewed in post-Civil War United States? Were they blamed for the war, did they repent?

by /u/HeyLetsNotKillJews in /r/AskHistorians

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