https://www.foxnews.com/politics/congress-votes-remo
ve-bust-chief-justice-authored-dred-scott-decisio
> Published December 15, 2022 3:16pm EST ;
> Congress votes to remove bust of chief justice who authored Dred Scott
> decision
> House lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to remove a bust of Roger
> B. Taney, the late Supreme Court justice who authored the Dred Scott
> decision in 1857, ruling that Black people could not become
> U.S. citizens. [...]
> The bust of Taney, the nation's fifth chief justice, who led the court
> from 1836 to 1864, currently sits inside the entrance to the Old
> Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol where the high court met
> from 1810 until 1860. Statues of Taney were previously removed in his
> home state of Maryland. [...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott
> Dred Scott (c. 1799 - September 17, 1858) was an enslaved
> African-American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully
> sued for freedom for themselves and their two daughters in the Dred
> Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott
> decision". The case centered on Dred and Harriet Scott and their
> children, Eliza and Lizzie. The Scotts claimed that they should be
> granted their freedom because Dred had lived in Illinois and the
> Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal, and
> laws in those jurisdictions said that slaveholders gave up their
> rights to slaves if they stayed for an extended period.
> In a landmark case, the United States Supreme Court decided 7-2
> against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African
> ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore
> Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of
> citizenship rules. Moreover, Scott's temporary residence in free
> territory outside Missouri did not bring about his emancipation,
> because the Missouri Compromise, which made that territory free by
> prohibiting slavery north of the 36°30´ parallel, was unconstitutional
> because it "deprives citizens of their [slave] property without due
> process of law".

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