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 ...

This Supreme Court decision attempted to settle the legal status of slaves in free territories to avert a civil war, but it provoked one instead. Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri ...

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

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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 ...

There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: Those on the side of embracing our history — even when it’s discriminatory — remembering and ...

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 ...