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

The group then cites six cases including Dred Scott v Sandford. The 1857 ruling came a few years before the 1861 outbreak of ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and children ... It is entitled "An act for the better preventing of a spurious and mixed issue," &c.; and it provides, that "if any negro or ...