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Crew prepares to remove Roger Taney statue from Maryland State House grounds - Baltimore Sun

Under the cover of night, a crew prepared to remove the statue of former Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney from the grounds of the State House early Friday morning.

The Department of General Services will remove the bronze likeness of Taney from its base and then cover the base in plywood, according to an email outlining the plan obtained by The Baltimore Sun.

The statue will then be moved to a secure storage facility for the Maryland State Archives.

The move comes after mounting pressure to do away with the Taney statue culminated in the State House Trust voting Wednesday to remove it. Potential changes to the historic building and its grounds must be approved by the four-member trust.

Taney was chief justice of the Supreme Court and author of the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and found that black Americans could not be citizens.

The decision has led Taney to be linked to leaders of the Confederacy. Efforts to remove his statue in Annapolis over the years have failed.

But such efforts became more urgent in the past week, and the Annapolis statue ? installed in 1872 ? is the latest monument linked to Confederate leaders to go.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh ordered middle-of-the-night removals of four monuments in the city this week: one of Taney, another of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, a Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument and a Confederate Women?s Monument. The Democratic mayor?s decision came a year and a half after a city panel recommended that the monuments be moved or altered to add more historical context.