More than 150 years after his death, Chief Justice Roger Taney, author of the Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery, still stirs controversy for public officials, particularly in his native home of Maryland.

What should be done, if anything, about a life-size statue on public grounds of the man who wrote one of the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court opinions?

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