Trump's lawyers have told the Supreme Court that 20th century presidents were wrong about birthright citizenship.

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 state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

The failure of the United States Supreme Court to do its job. 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 ...

Trump asks Supreme Court to let him enforce executive order redefining birthright citizenship - Court rulings across the ...

Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington have issued nationwide orders blocking President Donald Trump’s executive ...

The order, if approved, would deny citizenship to those born after Feb. 19 whose parents are in the country illegally.

The litigation is likely to reach the Supreme Court, where Dred Scott has long been regarded as a great “self-inflicted wound.” But a new conservative supermajority has given Trump supporters ...

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