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

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

Abolishing birthright citizenship would mark a qualitative new step in a legal counterrevolution and would fundamentally ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney's unjust majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford shockingly declared Black individuals weren't citizens, solidifying slavery's grip and pushing the nation ...

President Harry Truman bowed to the Supreme Court’s decision that he had no authority ... the Supreme Court’s execrable holding in Dred Scott v. Sandford, widely regarded as the worst court ...

That decision set the terms for the ... In 1857, though, the Supreme Court decided the Dred Scott v. Sandford case, with Chief Justice Taney declaring that people of African descent — whether ...

But remember, the former jurist dissented in Casey and the latter jurist wrote the controlling opinion ... Lincoln called for "disregarding" Dred Scott. He would have simply limited the holding ...

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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 ...

We pay tribute to the late, remarkable Jimmy Carter, who died today at age 100, by recalling his historic visit to Bates in 1985 to honor his friend Edmund Muskie '36 and to praise the greatness of ...

The Red Sox lost out on Tanner Scott, watching the star lefty reliever join the Los Angeles Dodgers over the weekend. Boston reportedly has been looking to make another major bullpen addition ...