A combination illustration image shows U.S. lawmakers. In an examination of the genealogies of America’s political elite, Reuters found that at least 100 of 536 members of the last sitting Congress are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people. In addition, President Joe Biden and every living former U.S. president except Donald Trump are direct descendants of slaveholders. Two of the nine sitting U.S. Supreme Court justices also have direct ancestors who enslaved people. And in 2022, the governors of 11 of the 50 U.S. states were descendants of slaveholders, Reuters found. REUTERS/Illustration/Staff