The House has approved the removal from the Capitol of the bust of former Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who wrote the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision denying African Americans U.S. citizenship and protecting the institution of slavery.
A bill passed Wednesday would require officials to remove a statue of Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who wrote the racist Dred Scott decision, from its place on the Senate side of the Capitol.
The House passed legislation Wednesday that calls for removing from the Capitol a bust of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision that held African-Americans were not citizens.
The House passed a bill Wednesday to replace a U.S. Capitol bust of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the infamous decision to protect slavery in the 1857 Dred Scott case, with a bust of the first black justice, Thurgood Marshall.