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.” ...

“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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professors Martha Jones and Christopher Bracey discussed the legacy of the Dred Scott case and how the decision is seen today. Professors Martha ...

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 ...

An Introduction To Constitutional Law Video Library: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), The Slaughter-House Cases (1873), Bradwell v. Illinois (1873), U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), Strauder v. West Virginia ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – A decade-long fight for freedom ...

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 President ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – Nearly two centuries later, the ...

A Republican national organization shockingly and inaccurately argued that Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for president, citing a slavery-era Supreme Court decision that ruled Black ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professors Martha Jones and Christopher Bracey discussed the background of the Dred Scott case including the atmosphere in the United States ...