The House has passed a bill that would remove from public display at the U.S. Capitol a statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that defended slavery and denied the citizenship of Black Americans.
J. Scott Applewhite / AP fileThe House passed a bill Wednesday that would remove from public display at the U.S. Capitol a statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that defended slavery and denied the citizenship of Black Americans.
The legislation, which the House passed by voice vote, declares that Taney's authorship of the decision"renders a bust of his likeness unsuitable for the honor of display to the many visitors to the Capitol." "While the removal of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney’s bust from the Capitol does not relieve the Congress of the historical wrongs it committed to protect the institution of slavery, it expresses Congress’s recognition of one of the most notorious wrongs to have ever taken place in one of its 19 rooms," the bill states.
The Senate passed the bill last week by unanimous consent. It now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature.
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