House votes to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol
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By Alex Rogers, CNN
The House passed a resolution Tuesday to expel Confederate statues from the US Capitol and replace its bust of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one honoring Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice.
The vote was 285 to 120. Sixty-seven Republicans voted with 218 Democrats in support of the bill.
The House passed a similar resolution last year on a bipartisan basis but it stalled after Republicans in the Senate argued that the states should decide which statues they’d like to display in the Capitol. The legislation has a better chance to pass now that Democrats hold the Senate majority.
House Democrats in 2020, including (L-R) Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) and House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), introduced a bill that would replace the bust of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber at the U.S. Capitol with one of former Justice Thurgood Marshall. Taney was the author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision that declared African Americans couldn’t be citizens. The measure passed the House on Tuesday on a 285 to 120 roll call.
Drew Angerer/Getty Images file photo WASHINGTON Illinois GOP Reps. Rodney Davis and Adam Kinzinger both being mentioned as potential 2022 governor candidates joined with Democrats on Tuesday to approve a measure to remove statues of Confederate leaders from the U.S. Capitol.
House looks to remove Roger Taney bust, Confederate statues By KEVIN FREKING, , Associated Press,
Published: June 29, 2021, 10:57am
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3 Photos FILE - In this March 9, 2020, file photo a marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney is displayed in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Taney, who came from a wealthy, slave-owning family in Calvert County, Md., led the Supreme Court in the 1857 ruling against Dred Scott, an enslaved African American man, who had sued for his freedom. The House is expected to approve a bill Tuesday that would remove from the bust of Taney from the Capitol, as well as statues of Jefferson Davis and others who served in the Confederacy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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