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How did the Senate attempt to block Roger Brooke Taney's ascension to the Supreme Court?

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The Senate, incensed by Taney's actions as Secretary of the Treasury, refused in 1835 to ratify his nomination as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, but the following year, somewhat changed in membership, the Senate ratified his appointment as Chief Justice.

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