Justice Department lawyers will defend President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship in federal court Thursday — the first action in what promises to be a ...

America started doing so at the end of the civil war. The constitution was amended then to overturn the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which held that black people were not Americans. The 14th Amendment ...

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

that the judges of the Supreme Court have come to a decision in the case of DRED SCOTT, which involves the consitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney's unjust majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford shockingly declared Black individuals weren't citizens, solidifying slavery's grip and pushing the nation ...

With the start of the 119th Congress on Friday, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has become the longest-serving Black US senator. Scott will also serve as the first Black chairman of a Senate ...

This protection overturned the Supreme Court's ruling in the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sanford, which had ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the US and therefore did not have the same ...