< 1 min. read House lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to remove a bust of Roger B. Taney, the late Supreme Court justice who authored the Dred Scott decision in 1857, ruling that Black people could not become U.S. citizens. The legislation commissions a bust of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first Black justice, to be […]
Source: CANCELED: Congress Votes to Remove Bust of Former Chief Justice of Supreme Court