Congress voted to replace a bust in the Capitol of Roger Taney, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve on the high court.
Congress has voted to replace Taney's bust at the U.S. Capitol with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black associate justice of the Supreme Court.Congress has voted to replace Taney's bust at the U.S. Capitol with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black associate justice of the Supreme Court.Taney's bust must be removed within 45 days of the enactment of the bill and a bust of Marshall must be obtained within two years, according to the legislation.
"In removing Taney's bust, I'm not asking that we would hold Taney's to today's moral standards," Hoyer said."On the contrary, let us hold him who the standard of his contemporaries, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln ... and all of those who understood that the enslavement of others has always been an immoral act."
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