Congress Votes to Remove Bust of Supreme Court Justice Who Penned the Dred Scott Decision

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Congress Votes to Remove Bust of Supreme Court Justice Who Penned the Dred Scott Decision



Hannah Bleau15 Dec 20220

Congress has voted to remove a bust of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, the justice who penned the Dred Scott decision, denying citizenship to black Americans and defending slavery, from the U.S. Capitol.

The move follows the House approving the measure on Wednesday, deeming a “bust of his likeness unsuitable for the honor of display to the many visitors to the Capitol.”

According to NBC News:

The measure directs the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to remove Taney’s bust, which sits inside the entrance to the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol, and replace it with a bust of Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first Black justice.

“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, which now requires a signature from President Biden, reads.

This is hardly the first instance of Congress taking action to remove historical paintings or statues in the halls of Congress.

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[sneakypete]

Yeah,WHAT THE HELL?

Let's go ahead and change history.

After all,it's not like we have anything to learn from it,right?

[mountaineer]

Will we now have to pretend he never existed, let alone served on the Supreme Court?

[sneakypete]

Will we now have to pretend he never existed, let alone served on the Supreme Court?

@mountaineer

By the time the dust settles,the Congressional Black Caucus and dey honkie comrades will be demanding we burn the Congressional records in the name of "equality".

[Hoodat]

Congress Votes to Remove Bust of Supreme Court Justice Who Penned the Dred Scott Decision

The measure directs the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to remove Taney’s bust, which sits inside the entrance to the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol, and replace it with a bust of Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first Black justice.

It would have been far more appropriate to replace Taney's bust with a bust of John Harlan, the Republican Justice who wrote the dissent against Plessy, the very dissent that Marshall used in Brown.

[mountaineer]

The effort to erase history is unceasing.

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Not only did they remove Gen. A.P. Hill's statue in Richmond, they dug up his body.  So where's Taney buried? His bones may not be safe from the mob.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

How long before Washington and Jefferson are removed for having slaves?

[Fishrrman]

Weird asks:
"How long before Washington and Jefferson are removed for having slaves?"

To ask that question, is to answer it...