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 ...

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

This Supreme Court decision attempted to settle the legal status of slaves in free territories to avert a civil war, but it provoked one instead. Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri ...

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

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 ...

This is equivalent to declaring that black men map be citizens of the United States, and that the dicta to the contrary in the Dred Scott case are incorrect. We say the dicta and not the decision ...

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 ...

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 ...

On his first day in office last Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring an end to birthright ...

Amazingly enough, Baltimore has a statue of Chief Justice Roger Taney, the author of the monstrous Dred Scott decision, which helped precipitate the war. A city commission has, rightly ...