FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2019, file photo, Cheri Beasley poses for a portrait in the court room from the Chief Justice's seat in Fayetteville, N.C. In North Carolina's Supreme Court chamber, above the seat held by Beasley, the second African American chief justice, hangs a towering painting of Chief Justice Thomas Ruffin, a 19th century slave owner and jurist who authored a notorious opinion about the “absolute” rights of slaveholders over the enslaved. In October 2018 the state Supreme Court named a commission to review the portraits in the building that houses the court,including Ruffin's. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/The Fayetteville Observer via AP, File)
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