This Supreme Court decision attempted to settle the legal status of slaves in free territories to avert a civil war, but it provoked one instead. Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri ...

He could not then know that it would take a civil war to reverse Dred Scott v. Sandford. Plus ça change, plus e’est la même chose. Today again, though from the opposite point of the compass ...

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.

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom on the same grounds where slaves were once auctioned off on the front steps. The ruling led to the Civil War, which ultimately resulted in the ...

That led to his larger point, which was that changing the rules would be a catastrophic betrayal of American values forged in the Civil War. “To adopt such an amendment would not be technically ...

You know, frankly, in a more hideous way you had that situation prior to the Civil War, in the Dred Scott decision. No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred Scott ...

Trump's attack on our Constitution is an attempt to take us back to some of our nation's darkest days before the Civil War. Courts should continue to quickly reject his absurd, insulting ...