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A bill to direct the Architect of the Capitol to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained…

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A bill to direct the Architect of the Capitol to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library, and for other purposes.

Introduced: June 2, 2020 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
Jun 2, 2020
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This bill requires the Architect of the Capitol to remove the bust of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney from the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the U.S. Capitol to replace it with a bust of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall that must be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library. Chief Justice Taney authored the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision that declared African Americans were not U.S. citizens and could not sue in federal courts.

What's happening now June 2, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

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Van Hollen, Chris
Maryland · Jun 2, 2020
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3863: A bill to direct the Architect of the Capitol to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library, and for other purposes.. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3863/
MLA
"S. 3863: A bill to direct the Architect of the Capitol to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library, and for other purposes.." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3863/.
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S. 3863, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3863/.
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[S. 3863: A bill to direct the Architect of the Capitol to replace the bust of Roger Brooke Taney in the Old Supreme Court Chamber of the United States Capitol with a bust of Thurgood Marshall to be obtained by the Joint Committee on the Library, and for other purposes.](https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3863/)
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