Happily, for the whole human family, their rights have been defined, declared, and decided in a court higher than the Supreme Court. Frederick Douglass, Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, May 1857 ...

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote the Dred Scott decision in 1857, ruling that Black Americans were not and ...

They will research China's agricultural history; the intersection of immigration, incarceration, and public health in 19th-century New York City; and Caribbean immigrants' use of cricket and reggae to ...

The president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might ...

Taney authored the majority opinion in the 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, a case where Scott sought freedom due to having lived in a free state. Taney wrote that because Scott was Black ...

During his campaign, Trump made bold promises, saying on day one he would start the largest deportation program in United ...

If we want to deploy actual power to block Trump’s vicious agenda once he takes control of the federal government, we will have to look to the states.

That miles-long block is named after former Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney. He authored the infamous Dred Scott decision in 1857, which Constitutional scholars consider a stain on the court's ...

History shows that, even when the Senate majority and the president are from the same party, the nomination process does not ...

Descendants of the former Supreme Court justice who supported slavery applauded the change during a City Council meeting.

The Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States has been widely and severely criticized across the spectrum of ...