Taney was the hack Jackson made CJ of SCOTUS.

Taney "qualifications" were he was the thug who agreed to kill the Bank of the US when no reasonable Jackson subordinate would.

Taney had no legal background.  He got approved because Jackson dominated Congress.

Taney is worst CJ ever.  Period.

When the country began to move toward rejecting slavery, Taney and his fellow Southerners on the court, just shut the entire movement down by issuing blatantly partisan decisions with no legal or moral basis.  They just said whatever would protect slavery.

Their intransigence and partisanship was a major cause of the Civil War.  One branch of the government essentially seized the power to thwart the will of the other two.  The system strained and broke under the pressure.  100,000s of Americans died.

To hear that hack Gingrich (who is allegedly a historian) out this decision in the same class (much less label it worse than) the Dred Scott decision can only be interpreted as Gingrich being willing to say ANYTHING to pimp his side or Gingrich is an inveterate racist.

I guess there is a third option: he has no idea what he is talking about.