Article 5KQBV House Votes to Remove All Confederate Statues From US Capitol. Some Republicans are Predictably Big Mad

House Votes to Remove All Confederate Statues From US Capitol. Some Republicans are Predictably Big Mad

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Zack Linly
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On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted to remove all Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol as well as a bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, the white supremacist lawmaker who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott ruling that said Black people aren't U.S. citizens. Predictably, members of a certain party that...

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