Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the spring of 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet Robinson Scott thought they had a chance at freedom. They lived in Missouri ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . Brazenly, in Citizens United, the court employed parallel logic to the syllogism embedded in the most repugnant ruling it ever made, the 1857 Dred ...

In 1833, a man named Dred Scott crossed a border. Scott didn’t traverse nations. Just a work trip, of sorts, from Missouri to Illinois. But as a slave in a pre-abolition (and rapidly fracturing) ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- A century and a half after the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that no black -- slave or free -- could ever become a U.S. citizen, the case's legacy is still ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Henry Geyer, who was elected by the Missouri Legislature to replace U.S. Sen. Thomas Hart Benton over the issue of slavery. Geyer ...

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 ...

In ordinary times, someone could read the Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of so-called “universal injunctions” as just the latest example of an old dispute: the proper way to interpret the ...