From the June 30, 2021, Chicago Tribune.
The Roger Taney bust will be replaced with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice to serve on the nation's highest court. Thurgood Marshall is a very deserving man of an honor, but, I have to ask this question. Does EVERY thing that's replaced have to be replaced with a black person?
The two-foot high marble bust of Taney is outside a room in the Capitol where the Supreme Court met from 1810 to 1860. It was in that room that Taney, the nation's fifth chief justice, announced the Dred Scott Decision, sometimes called the worst decision in the court's history.
The Supreme Court held that Scott, as a black man, was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue for freedom, and found that legislation restricting slavery in certain territories was unconstitutional.
Regardless of how we view it now, the fact is that slaves were considered property at the time and as such did not have the right of a free person. The Supreme Court voted 7-2 that Scott was not a free man and Taney wrote the opinion. Now, Taney is held in ill-regard, but, shouldn't also all six members who voted with Taney be held in this esteem.
The other members of the Supreme Court in 1857 were McLean, Wayne, Catron, Daniel, Nelson, Grier, Curtis and Campbell. All were Democrats (notice this, ALL WERE DEMOCRATS) except Curtis who was a Whig. So Taney and six other Democrats voted that slaves were not citizens.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis and John McLean were the only two who voted against it. The others obviously were not yet "Woke."
Imagine Democrats Today Being Against Blacks. --Old Secesh
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