The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave ...

The Trump administration is putting the century-old right to the test by flexing its executive authority and attacking judges ...

They had a case, a case before a single vote ... No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred Scott decision was the icing on the cake. It was the fuel on the fire.

The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after ... with Scott losing his case in the Missouri state courts before he ...

In the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court dismissed a freedom lawsuit by holding, among other things, that people of African descent were forever barred from American citizenship.

Like-minded states should consider sharing resources and coordinating their resistance in the face of federal erosion of ...

The Dred Scott challenge isn't a difficult but rewarding ... Mark Shawhan details how courts in the South found ways to deny citizenship to free Black residents, lest they be found to be "entitled ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on May 15 on the federal government’s request to be allowed to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship – the ...

The specifics of this case and ones like it will soon ... as helping to instigate the Civil War. The Dred Scott decision of 1857 by the Supreme Court basically held that a freed black man had ...

1857—Chief Justice Taney’s ruling in Dred Scott marks the Supreme Court’s first use of the modern liberal judicial activist’s favorite tool—“substantive due process”—to invalidate ...

The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and ... that the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction of the case, and that the judgment on the plea in abatement is erroneous.