Those seeking to undo Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship are looking at past legal cases ...

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.

The 14th Amendment makes clear that no politician can ever decide who among those born in our country is worthy of citizenship.

Twitted on all sides for his wife’s ownership of slaves, Chaffee soon fixed up a technical transfer of the Dred Scott family to his wife’s New York brother, John Sandford, who thus became the ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... Scott had claimed that he and the case's defendant (Mrs. Emerson's brother, John Sanford, who lived in New York) were citizens from ...

In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments that the framers of the 14th Amendment heard and explicitly rejected more ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

The Trump directive recalls the era of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the infamous 1857 decision that said Black people could not be citizens. That case, which helped precipitate the Civil War ...

Taney is best known for his opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, and Meyerson would like to compare Dobbs with Dred Scott. He begins thus: “He was confident that his sweeping opinion, backed by a ...

The Trump directive recalls the era of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the infamous 1857 decision that said Black people could not be citizens. That case, which helped precipitate the Civil War, was reversed ...