Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, ... • Dred Scott case: the Supreme Court decision ...

THE DRED SCOTT DECISION. Share full article. April 11, 1857. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from April 11, 1857, Page 11 Buy Reprints.

It was New England’s own Atlantic Monthly, protesting early in 1858 the Dred Scott decision. The Dred Scott case of 1857 is the most famous — or notorious — in all of our judicial history.

The decision ruled that enslaved people aren’t protected citizens. According to archives.gov: “In 1846, an enslaved Black man named Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, sued for their freedom in ...

The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after Dred Scott, an enslaved Black man, sued for his freedom alongside his wife Harriet in St Louis Circuit Court in 1846.

With its decision in Trump v. Casa, the court has become an accomplice in President Trump’s ongoing assault on our ...

The Wong Kim Ark decision is the one targeted by Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship and the one under attack because of the Trump v. CASA decision. Palma McLaughlin, a Dorchester ...

For the first time in over a century, children will soon be born in the United States without the benefit of birthright citizenship.

Her opinion conjured the jurisprudence of the Dred Scott era when it warned that the court’s new decision creates a “two-tiered scheme” in which someone’s citizenship status depends on ...