A federal judge is set to hear arguments over temporarily pausing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end ...

In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments ...

The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to abolish birthright citizenship is unambiguously and profoundly racist.

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 ...

This is the least we might learn from the Dred Scott case, looking backward over one hundred years. Southerners of today may chortle at the old Atlantic Monthly’s anti-Supreme Court strictures ...

Several states suing Donald Trump over his executive order ending birthright citizenship urged a judge to issue a preliminary ...

that the judges of the Supreme Court have come to a decision in the case of DRED SCOTT, which involves the consitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

The litigation is likely to reach the Supreme Court, where Dred Scott has long been regarded as a great “self-inflicted wound ...

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 ...