The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s ...

In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments ...

The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave ...

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

There are two leading questions presented by the record: 1) Had the Circuit Court of the United States jurisdiction to hear and determine the case between these parties? And 2) If it had ...

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DeSantis isn’t necessarily confident that the current court would support his and Trump’s view on birthright citizenship ...

Yet, for all the familiarity of its name and of the bare fact that it bestowed judicial blessing on the institution of slavery, the full story of the Dred Scott case is not widely known ...

The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after ... But the lawsuit grew into a legal case lasting over a decade, with ...

They had a case, a case before a single vote was counted ... 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 ...

The lawsuit challenges President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, which they say violates the ...