In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court ... 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 ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue ... the case and whether Scott was indeed a citizen. The decision of the court was read in March of 1857. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney -- a staunch supporter ...

that the judges of the Supreme Court have come to a decision in the case of DRED SCOTT, which involves the consitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

DeSantis isn’t necessarily confident that the current court would support his and Trump’s view on birthright citizenship ...

After the Civil War, the Constitution was amended to consider every baby born in the US an American. Soon that may change.

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

The president’s executive order would purportedly end a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution. But that's not how ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which stated that enslaved people weren’t citizens, to argue that Vice ...

This is equivalent to declaring that black men map be citizens of the United States, and that the dicta to the contrary in the Dred Scott case are incorrect. We say the dicta and not the decision ...

Put simply, under Trump’s order, the children of most undocumented immigrants wouldn’t be US citizens, nor would the children ...

You know, frankly, in a more hideous way you had that situation prior to the Civil War, in the Dred Scott decision. No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred Scott ...