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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The group then cites six cases including Dred Scott v Sandford. The 1857 ruling came a few years before the 1861 outbreak of ...

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

In 1857, the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision had held that no black of African descent (free or slave) could be a citizen of the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment was thus necessary to ...

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 ...

In 1857, in one of the most shameful and racist judicial decisions in our history, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected this right in Dred Scott v. Sanford, denying citizenship to the descendants of ...