Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state ... Although disappointed, Frederick Douglass, found a bright side to the decision and announced, "my hopes were never brighter than now." ...

After the Supreme Court's decision, the former master's sons purchased Scott and his wife and set them free. Dred Scott died nine months later.

There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: Those on the side of embracing our history — even when it’s discriminatory — remembering and ...

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

Into this atmosphere came for decision the Dred Scott case, started in a federal district court in Missouri while the Kansas-Nebraska Act was winging its way through Congress, but dealing with ...

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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 ...

That sentence overturned Dred Scott, the 1857 Supreme Court decision that affirmed slavery and helped prompt the Civil War. That history has heft, said Mr. Dellinger, who died in 2022 after a long ...

In the first—but surely not the last—court order temporarily blocking President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour said he could ...

The 14th Amendment makes clear that no politician can ever decide who among those born in our country is worthy of citizenship.

Of course, quite unlike Dred Scott, Dobbs did no such thing ... It was also widely seen as a prelude to a constitutional decision forcing every state to allow slaves to be brought into their ...