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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The statute of former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville...

Read Article The statue of Melville W. Fuller, who was born in Augusta in 1833 and served as the eighth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is seen outside the Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta on April 8. The statue has been a focus of debate since last summer, and a committee tasked with determining what should be done with the statue has decided to returned it to its donor. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal file AUGUSTA — For $1, the statue of Melville W. Fuller will be returned to its donor and will be removed from in front of the Kennebec County courthouse within ...

Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal AUGUSTA — The Kennebec County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to remove a controversial statue from county property six months after the state’s judicial branch raised the issue. The statue, which was erected outside the Kennebec County courthouse in 2013, depicts Augusta native Melville Fuller, who served as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when it decided a case that institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States for more than five decades. “I do not believe that Kennebec County should convey to others that we in any way support...

The statue of Melville Weston Fuller, the U.S. Supreme Court chief justice who led the 1896 ruling that legally supported more than half a century of racial segregation, will be moved from the lawn of the Kennebec County Courthouse in Augusta. The Kennebec County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to move the statue to a spot where it can serve an educational purpose. The three-member board will appoint a committee that will decide where the statue will go and other logistics of the move. Melville Fuller presided over Plessy v. Ferguson, a decision that allowed "separate but equal" race-...

Maine Compass: Kennebec County commissioners should remove Fuller statue They should be leaders and do the right thing. By Charlie Bernstein Share As they decide the future of the Melville Fulller statue in from of the Kennebec County courthouse, county commissioners should remember that Augusta isn’t just another small town on a vast nation’s map. It’s a state capital — in New England, no less, a region with a history of dogged abolitionism. Today in America, we’re living through a turning point — a reckoning with slavery’s aftershocks and a recommitment to the possibility of...