Tag: Thurgood Marshall

Biden Signs Bill to Remove Bust of Dred Scott Decision’s Author

President Joe Biden signed a bill on Dec. 28 to remove the bust of former Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney, author of the 1857 Dred Scott Decision, and replace it with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice. Democrats had called for taking down Taney’s bust since 2020, when House Majority Leader…


Book Review: ‘The Credentialed Court’: A Look at the Elitism of the Modern Supreme Court

Benjamin H. Barton, the author of “The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice,” thinks the Supreme Court should be more diverse. But not in the way you may think, and definitely not in the way President Joe Biden thinks. In fact, it’s not in the way any of America’s recent presidents…