For the past few years, I’ve been concerned that civil rights cases are being derailed by the menacing ghost of Roger B. Taney, the former U.S. Supreme Court chief justice who wrote what many legal ...

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In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United ...

And on Tuesday, President Biden signed a bill to remove and replace a bust of Supreme Court justice and enslaver Roger B. Taney — infamous for the Dred Scott decision denying Black people ...

The proposal was combined with an attempt to replace a bust of Roger B. Taney, the author of the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court decision preserving slavery, with a bust of the first Black ...

For the past few years, I’ve been concerned that civil rights cases are being derailed by the menacing ghost of Roger B. Taney, the former U.S. Supreme Court chief justice who wrote what many ...