The writ of habeas corpus is an extraordinary remedy because it gives a court the power to release a prisoner after the prisoner has been processed through the criminal justice system, with all its procedural safeguards and appeals.
Noun. 1. Roger Brooke Taney-United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens (1777-1864).
President Andrew Jackson nominated Chief Justice Roger B. Taney to the Supreme Court in 1836, where he served until 1864. Taney is best remembered for presiding over the Dred â¦Scott case (Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 US 393 (1857)) that held slaves and their descendants could never be citizens of the United States.