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Civil rights experts say replacing Roger Taney statue with Thurgood Marshall's is overdue
Yahoo News via AOL· 1 year agoLast week, Congress passed legislation to remove from the Capitol the bust of Supreme Court Chief...
Congress votes to remove bust of Justice Roger Taney, author of infamous Dred Scott decision
The Week via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBust of Taney AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Congress on Thursday passed legislation calling for the...
House approves removal of bust of justice who wrote decision protecting slavery
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe House has approved the removal from the Capitol of the bust of former Chief Justice Roger Brooke...
Descendant of judge who wrote infamous Dred Scott decision pens a play about where we are now
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 months agoWriter and actor Kate Taney Billingsley has been thinking a lot about America's racial history and...
Was Chief Justice Roger Taney reasonable in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAccording to current legal opinion, the Dred Scott case was the Supreme Court’s worst. The Civil War...
Democrats press Senate to vote on bill removing Dred Scott justice bust from Capitol
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTop House Democrats are pressing the Senate to vote on a bill to remove the bust of former Chief...
Congress Says Yes To Removing Statue Of Supreme Court Justice Who Was Behind Dred Scott Decision
The Root via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn Wednesday, the House passed a bill that would get rid of a statue on display at the U.S. Capitol...
Statue of Thurgood Marshall to replace bust of racist Supreme Court justice at US Capitol
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe statue of American civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall will replace the bust of late U.S....
Congress approves removing statue of Supreme Court chief justice who wrote Dred Scott decision
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe House passed a bill that would remove from public display at the Capitol a statue of the Supreme...
Justice Henry Billings Brown and reasonableness in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYou will get a debate among legal pundits (I hesitate to call them scholars) on which was more...