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Congress Acts to Remove Bust of Dred Scott Decision Author

By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed legislation Wednesday that calls for removing from the Capitol a bust of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision that held African-Americans were not citizens. The bust of Roger B. Taney, the nation’s fifth chief justice, sits inside the entrance […]

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