Steny Hoyer wants Roger Taney bust replaced by Thurgood Marshall

over 4 years in Washington Times

House Democrats said Monday they will try to toss the bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney from the collection in the U.S. Capitol, saying the Maryland jurist's role in writing the decision in the 1857 Dred Scott ruling makes him unfit for that honor. The bust sits in the ...

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