Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri, traveled with his master to the free territory of Illinois. As a result, Scott later sued his master for freedom, which the lower courts usually granted.

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.

Dred Scott v. Sandford reached the high tribunal, on appeal, early in 1856. The Court was then made up, along with Chief Justice Taney from Maryland, of four other Southern Justices — Campbell ...

citing “precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court cases.” Among the six cases in the document attributed to the NFRA was the Dred ...

“An originalist and strict constructionist understanding of the Constitution in the Scalia and Thomas tradition, as well as ...