Skip to main content  8 nominees who didn't go to the Supreme
Court  By David Holzel, Mental Floss   • Ebenezer Hoar got a
thumbs down after blocking a well-trod route for patronage   •
Wheeler Peckham and William B. Hornblower rejected through home
state courtesy   • Newspaper claimed Alexander Wolcott's
nomination degraded the country   1. Robert Bork   2. Alexander
Wolcott    3. Roger Taney  Roger B. Taney (pronounced tawny) is
largely remembered as the chief justice who handed down the Dred
Scott decision in 1857. With his sepulchral countenance, Taney
is inextricably linked to the grim ruling that all blacks --
slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become
citizens of the United States. Mental Floss: Are Tomatoes Fruits
or Vegetables? The Supreme Court Weighs In  But when President
Andrew Jackson nominated him in 1835 as associate justice,
opposition Whigs were still smarting from Taney's removal of
government deposits from the Second Bank of the United States
while he was a recess-appointed