Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who argued that congress could not ban slavery in the territories?

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Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the majority opinion in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case in 1857, stating that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories as it would violate the Fifth Amendment.

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