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Anjali Vats
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Associate Prof @PittLaw. She/her. || Critical race theory, intellectual property, rhetoric, media e.g. music, pharma, seeds. Also politics, technology & octopi. 🐙
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Try to live your life in such a way that when you die, sitting members of Congress do not immediately, publicly call you a stain on your profession and the office you held ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/roger-tane...
A few months later, Congress was considering a bill to appropriate $1,000 for a marble bust of Taney, to add to the collection of busts of previous chief justices on display in the Supreme Court’s chambers. But lawmakers objected strenuously to the idea of lifting even a finger to honor a man who, in the words of one, had spent his life fighting to place the entire country “under the iron rule of the slave-masters.” Sumner, evidently a world-class hater, predicted that Taney’s name would be “hooted down upon the page of history,” which would “fasten upon him the stigma he deserves.” Ohio Senator Benjamin Wade framed the question of whether to commission the Taney bust as a simple matter of fiscal responsibility, warning that his constituents would “pay $2,000 to hang this man in effigy rather than $1,000 to commemorate his merits.”
October 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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