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.” ...

The U.S. Supreme Court precisely 164 years ago on March 6, 1857 in the Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford case declared that Blacks “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Kansas ...

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 ...

March 6 was the anniversary of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the worst decision ever made by the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that the Constitution excluded Blacks (equated with slaves and their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...