Curtis had a tumultuous time on the court. Nominated by President Millard Fillmore in 1851 to replace Levi Woodbury, the ...

FILE – A marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney is displayed in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on March 9, 2020. The House approved a bill on Dec. 14, 2020 ...

The House will vote later this month on legislation that would replace the bust of Taney with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American member of the Supreme Court.

Marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney is displayed in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The House will vote Wednesday, July 22, on whether to remove from the U.S ...

Charles Evans Hughes, who would later become the 11th Chief Justice of the United States, said with the ruling, the Supreme Court had “suffered from a self-inflicted wound.”Hughes called the ...

User-Created Clip by CraigCaplan July 4, 2020 C-SPAN Tour of Old Supreme Court chamber as part of The Capitol series Report Video Issue 0 seconds of 0 secondsVolume 50% 00:00 ...

The House on Wednesday passed by voice vote a bill that would replace a bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, the man who authored the majority opinion in the infamous Dred Scott case, in the ...

Lynne Jackson, a descendant of Dred Scott, right, hugs Charles Taney III, a descendant of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney on the 160th anniversary of the Dred Scott decision.

Early Friday morning, crews began to work on removing a statue of Roger B. Taney, the former Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and ruled that any ...

Crews remove statue of Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney from state house grounds in Annapolis, Md. early Friday morning. Aug. 18, 2017 (ABC7 photo) ...