113 House Republicans Vote Against Removing Confederate Statues From Capitol
The lower chamber approved legislation 305-113 Wednesday that seeks to replace the bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney (1836-1864)—who authored the 1857 Dred Scott decision that Black people could never be U.S. citizens—in the Capitol’s Old Supreme Court Chamber with Justice Thurgood Marshall (1967-1991), the first Black justice. The measure would also remove three statues of Vice President John Calhoun (1825-1832), North Carolina Governor Charles Aycock (1901-1905) and Representative John Clarke of New York (1827-1829, 1837-1843)....