Pamela what is joining us from baltimore. She is a politics reporter with. He Baltimore Sun explain what monuments are there in baltimore and that the arguments are for and against and what actions city officials have taken. Guest good morning. Just good in baltimore and central maryland we have had several monuments with confederate ties taken down over the course of the past week or so. In the city of baltimore there were four monuments that were taken down without notice in the middle of the night. Was to a former Supreme Court justice who authored the dred scott decision that upheld slavery. That was taken down. Theell as one that was confederate general robert e and stonewall jackson. There is a confederate Soldiers Memorial that was taken down and baltimore. A couple days later there was a justice taunting statue on the ground of the Maryland State House in annapolis that was removed. This week there was one in the suburb of ellicott city. Their courthouse had a confederate memorial to local soldiers that also was taken away in the middle of the night. Host lets talk about the former Supreme Court chief justice. The dred scott decision that he wrote in 1857 that gives and what heificance wrote was neither the class of persons who have been imported as slaves nor their descendents whether they were free or not who had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race either in social or political relations and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect and that the negro might justly the connection talk about the dred scott decision. It upheld slavery. It ruled that black americans have no human rights whatsoever. Compared slaves to merchandise. It is largely regarded as the worst Supreme Court opinion ever written. It is been controversial for years. There have been multiple attempts to remove his statue from the state house. It took on new significance after the events in charlottesville. There is a Public Safety concern that this statute could become a flashpoint as the statue in charlottesville did. Host what is next for the city and surrounding areas . Now a bunch ofe pedestals with no monuments on them. There has to be a discussion in the community of what comes next. Should there be something to replace these monuments. Also the matter of what to do with the ones that have been removed. Most of them are in storage right now. Howard county confederate memorial is going to go to a museum that has an exhibit called a divided county that talks about both sides of the civil war. That one has a home. The rest of them dont have homes. Theres empty pedestals. I think thats the next step to figure out. What should be honored in our public squares. The fate will decide of those statues and what they . Are replaced with . Guest thats going to be up to the government. In a necklace the statehouse there is a group that makes decisions on what happens inside the building on the grounds around it