Funny thing is the Secretary Class cutter 37 named Roger B. Taney was named after the previous Morris-Taney class cutter named after the Secretary of the Treasury Roger B. Taney to honor the service of the previous ship not the man. This first ship Taney was named for Secretary Taney two decades before Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote the Dred-Scott decision.
It's not like the president ordered the name of a commissioned USN warship covered.
You are so right!
BTW, the former USCGC Roger B. Taney, now a museum ship at Baltimore, is presently known as "Cutter 37" so as not to offend the tender sensibilities of liberal "cancel culture" folks who don't appreciate the namesake. Note the painted out name on the stern:
....Roger B. Taney.
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