Today is Friday, March 6, the 65th day of 2026. There are 300 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, ruled 7-2 that Scott, an ...

According to current legal opinion, the Dred Scott case was the Supreme Court’s worst. The Civil War was waiting in the wings. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes called it a “self-inflicted wound.” ...

Editor’s Note: A professor of law at Yale University, Fred Rodell’s latest book, is Nine Men, a political history of the U.S. Supreme Court. A RESPONSIBLE if somewhat sectionally slanted journal was ...

Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom based on having lived in free territories, a legal strategy that had previously succeeded in Missouri. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v.

“We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up with the Dred Scott decision and dragging it into the conversation,” Dr. Mary Frances ...

Exactly 151 years ago on April 14, 1873, the U.S. Supreme Court in its Slaughterhouse Cases decision strengthened the premise of the notorious 1857 Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford case. As you might ...

On March 6, 1857, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Scott, a slave, was not a U.S. citizen and could not sue for his freedom in federal court. In 1944, U.S. heavy ...

For years, enslaved Dred Scott and his family fought for their freedom. After being sold and transferred to different owners, Scott and his wife, Harriet, thought they had a case when they were moved ...