Supreme Court of the united states

Last week, Congress passed legislation banishing from the Capitol the bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the author of the Supreme Court's racist Dred ...

[Dred Scott](https://thehill.com/tag/dred-scott/) [Dred Scott](https://thehill.com/people/dred-scott/) [Dred Scott v. Wallance](https://thehill.com/people/gregory-j-wallance/) [Jan. Sandford](https://thehill.com/social-tags/dred-scott-v-sandford/) [Gregory J. United States, which upheld the [internment](https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/facts-and-case-summary-korematsu-v-us) of Japanese-Americans during World War II for no reason other than their ancestry. [expelled](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/02/fact-check-14-congressmen-expelled-1861-supporting-confederacy/4107713001/) in 1861 for conspiring against the “peace and union of the United States” by supporting the Confederacy. Wallance, a former federal prosecutor and writer in New York City, is the author of the historical novel “Two Men Before the Storm: Arba Crane’s Recollection of Dred Scott and the Supreme Court Case That Started the Civil War.” He is working on a book about a 19th century American journalist who investigated the Siberian exile system. [bust](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/us/politics/taney-thurgood-marshall-statue-capitol.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) of Chief Justice Roger B. The United States of America began tearing itself apart. Taney held that Congress had no such authority and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because it interfered with the constitutionally protected “property” rights of slaveholders. Taney’s bust properly belongs in a Supreme Court Hall of Infamy. Senate Hall of Infamy are the 10 Southern senators whom the Senate Fittingly, it will be replaced by a bust of Thurgood Marshall, the [first](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/14/dred-scott-taney-bust-slavery/) Black Supreme Court justice.