Chief On March 6, 1857, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney oversaw a 7-2 vote against enslaved spouses Dred Scott and Harriet Scott, who ...

This year, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. The former colonies came together as a nation inspired by the principles expressed in the Declaration of ...

Congress did not draft the Fourteenth Amendment to change this practice, but to affirm it in the face of the most grievous travesty in American constitutional history: slavery. In Dred Scott v.

Barbara Thomas’s “Broken Is Mended” panel, which was installed at Yale's Grace Hopper College -- formerly Calhoun College -- in 2022. If anyone has a lingering doubt about the rightness of Yale’s ...

Last week, the Duke Law Federalist Society hosted an event with the provocative title: “Born Here, Belong Here? A Constitutional Conversation on Citizenship by Birth” where the underpinnings of the ...

This letter serves as a rebuttal of one in which Lt. Gov. Beckwith was defended for his Three-Fifths Compromise remarks. The author claims the compromise was not to protect slavery, but to save the ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) WASHINGTON (CN) — President ...

In a sparsely attended event on March 25 in Morris Library, Catherine Davis, a longtime anti-abortion activist and founder of the Restoration Project, argued that abortion is being used to ...

Today is Thursday, March 6, the 65th day of 2025. There are 300 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, ruled 7-2 ...

Today is Thursday, March 6, the 65th day of 2025. There are 300 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, ruled 7-2 ...