Article courtesy of NewsOne Staff With the Supreme Court’s latest decision involving birthright citizenship, its important to ...

On Friday, June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major legal victory — and dealt a blow to the ability of courts to protect constitutional rights swiftly and meaningfully.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s request to partially pause rulings by three federal judges ...

The Supreme Court ruled to limit lower courts' ability to block President Trump's birthright citizenship order nationwide.

The Dred Scott case of 1857 is the most famous — or notorious — in all of our judicial history. It is the only one that every schoolboy knows by name, though rarely by its full name, which was ...

However, thanks to the horrific Supreme Court decision further protecting slavery in Dred Scott v Sandford (1857), this attempt was for naught. The Dred Scott decision raised such a backlash that ...

Adopted in July 1868, the amendment overturned the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, the Supreme Court’s 1857 ruling that held that even free African Americans were not U.S. citizens.

In Dred Scott v Sandford (1857), the justices had a strong interest in preventing the abolition of slavery. Six of the nine justices used the case as a vehicle for forcing the federal government ...

What about the “Dred Scott v. Sandford” Supreme Court decision in 1857 that stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court?

The infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857 decision ruled that Black people could not be U.S. citizens, but little did the Supreme Court know their ruling would set the stage for the Civil War.