The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol, as well as a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney from the the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol’s basement.
The House voted to remove the statue of Roger Taney, the #SCOTUS chief justice who wrote the majority opinion in the 1857 Dred Scott case that ruled people of African descent could never be American citizens https://t.co/Ou5cSFoPFS pic.twitter.com/Y2sVEuFJJk
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