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Congress Set to Replace Dred Scott Author’s Statue With Thurgood Marshall

Por: The New York Times Politics December 16, 2022

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WASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday gave final approval to legislation to remove from the Capitol a statue of Roger Brooke Taney, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the racist Dred Scott decision, and replace it with a bust of Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights icon and the first Black man to serve as a justice on the nation’s highest court., sponsored by Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, Democrat of Maryland, passed the House by a voice vote after... + full article



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