Many Indian families rely on birthright citizenship for their U.S.-born children to gain legal standing and, eventually, help ...

(THE CONVERSATION) For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an unprecedented effort to roll back democracy and the ...

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

What about the “Dred Scott v. Sandford” Supreme Court decision in 1857 that stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court?

Such arguments—particularly that of Robert Bork arguing that Dred Scott is the “very ugly common ancestor” of Lochner v. New York and Roe v. Wade—have masked an important ... that created the ...

It directly overturned the infamous Dred Scott versus Sandford (1857 ... However, this contradicts historical and legal precedent. The SC clarified the meaning of this phrase in Wong Kim Ark ...

The Supreme Court has rejected them all. For example, in the 1898 case Wong Kim Ark v. United States, a young Californian named Wong Kim Ark visited family in China, then tried to return to the ...

And I can’t imagine what the legal argument for that would be.” Whatever Judge Ho’s current position, the conclusion of his 2016 article may turn out to be prescient. “Stay tuned,” he wrote. “Dred ...

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 ...

citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent. The issue of whether enslaved people were eligible for U.S. citizenship came to the forefront in 1857 when the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against Dred Scott, a ...

This week he issued an executive order that would eliminate it, upending more than a century of precedent ... the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against Dred Scott, a slave, and his bid to sue for ...