 Complete the following phrase:  Until 2017, there was a statue of Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the United States, on the lawn of the State House. The statue was erected in 1872. The statue of Taney, a Marylander, was controversial because of Taneys support for slavery and his authorship of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857, which upheld the denial of citizenship to African Americans. As a result, a movement in support of removing the statue emerged. At first, the State House Trustmade up of the governor, the speaker of the state house, the president of the state senate, and the chair of the Maryland Historical Trust Board of Trusteesresponded by adding interpretive plaques explaining the controversy over his divisive opinion and its place in the evolution of the nations stance toward slavery. The Trust also added a statue of Marshall on Lawyers Mall, and agreed in 2016 to place statues of abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass in the State House. In the wake of the 