The Wong Kim Ark decision is the one targeted by Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship and the one under attack because of the Trump v. CASA decision. Palma McLaughlin, a Dorchester ...

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, ...

"With the stroke of a pen, the President has made a 'solemn mockery' of our Constitution. Rather than stand firm, the Court ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. ... John Sanford, who lived in New York) were citizens from different states. The main issues for the Supreme Court, ...

What’s shocking is that among the six Supreme Court cases they cite is the notorious Dred Scott v.Sandford decision from 1857. This ruling is often labeled one of the most reviled decisions in ...

Consent in Dred Scott. Written by a slaveholder and joined by five other slaveholders, Dred Scott v. Sandford's reasoning is continuous with the consent theory that surfaced in enslaving states.

With its decision in Trump v. Casa, the court has become an accomplice in President Trump’s ongoing assault on our ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies makes the argument in a newly adopted resolution, citing the 1857 Dred Scott v.Sandford case, among others, which ruled at the time that enslaved ...

I n the annals of bad Supreme Court decisions, one stands head and shoulders above the rest: Dred Scott v. Sanford, the ruling that African Americans could never become citizens of the United ...

Associate Justice McLEAN proceeded to express his views in the case of DRED SCOTT VS. SANFORD. After stating the facts relative to the subject, he proceeded to say that the plea as to jurisdiction ...

Even so, Dred Scott earned independent income. He and Harriet Robinson married, lived together, and formed a family. When the army reassigned Emerson to the South, the Scotts eventually joined him.

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies makes the argument in a newly adopted resolution, citing the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford case, among others, which ruled at the time that enslaved ...