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'''Ableman v. Booth''' was a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1859, 21 Howard 506 (1859). Chief Justice [[Roger B. Taney]] used the opportunity to analyze federal and state powers. Sherman Booth, sentenced to jail by a federal court for assisting in the rescue of a fugitive slave at Milwaukee, was released on a writ of habeas corpus issued by a judge of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on the ground that the [[Fugitive Slave Act]] was unconstitutional. The case was carried to the U.S. Supreme Court, which rendered a unanimous opinion by Taney pronouncing the Fugitive Slave Act valid and forbidding a state to interfere with federal prisoners by habeas corpus writs.
==Bibliography==
* Swisher, Carl B. ''Roger B. Taney'' (1961)
[[Category:United States law]]
==Bibliography==
* Swisher, Carl B. ''Roger B. Taney'' (1961)
[[Category:United States law]]