House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the House will vote this month to remove the bust of one of the Supreme Court’s most infamous justices from the Capitol building
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday the House will vote this month to remove the bust of one of the Supreme Court’s most infamous justices from the Capitol building.
The effort to remove the statue of Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the majority opinion in the 1857case that ruled people of African descent could never be American citizens, represents the latest step by House Democrats to rid the Capitol of memorials to racist historical figures.Hoyer told reporters that Taney’s 1857 ruling was “a terrible, terrible decision inconsistent with what America stands for, and what America said it stood for, and its Declaration of Independence.
Scott — an enslaved person — sued for his freedom in a case that spanned a decade and reached the highest court in the country. But Taney denied Scott’s case on the basis that enslaved people could not sue in federal court because they could never become citizens. The ruling also said the federal government could not ban slavery in its territories., which was introduced in early March, would remove Taney’s bust from the entrance of the old Supreme Court chamber at the Capitol and replace it with a bust of Justice Thurgood Marshall — the first Black Supreme Court justice.
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