By: jackie.sauter

The Taneytown City Council held a public hearing Wednesday night on a resolution that would declare the municipality “not a sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants. The council is expected to vote on the resolution Monday.

What would Taney — the former U.S. Supreme Court Justice who wrote the pro-slavery decision in the Dred Scott case — make of his eponymous town’s priorities? That illegal immigrants have no rights Americans are bound to respect?

BRENDAN KEARNEY, Legal Affairs Writer