For what it’s worth, Mike Miller is sorry he stood up for Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney and his complicated past.
In a statement given to The Washington Post yesterday, the Maryland Senate president said, “as a student of history, I intended to respectfully state my preference for education about our flawed history and the greater historical context of Justice Taney. I do regret that sharing my historical perspective has distracted from the larger issue we must face together as a nation and from my role to bring unity and fight for a better Maryland.”
Two weeks ago, Miller penned a letter to Gov. Larry Hogan expressing his frustration at how the governor and the other members of the Maryland State House Trust went about removing a bronze bust of Taney in Annapolis. Days before, Hogan and House Speaker Michael Busch led a successful push to remove the statue from the State House lawn in the fallout of the violent Aug. 12 unrest in Charlottesville, Va.
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