In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United ...

Editor’s Note: A professor of law at Yale University, Fred Rodell’s latest book, is Nine Men, a political history of the U.S. Supreme Court. A RESPONSIBLE if somewhat sectionally slanted journal was ...

According to current legal opinion, the Dred Scott case was the Supreme Court's worst. The Civil War was waiting in the wings. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes called it a "self-inflicted wound." ...

This week, we uncover the life of Harriet Scott, the wife and co-plaintiff of Dred Scott in the infamous case Dred Scott v. Sanford, in which the Supreme Court held that African Americans were not ...

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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professors Martha Jones and Christopher Bracey discussed the background of the Dred Scott case including the atmosphere in the United States ...

Exactly 151 years ago on April 14, 1873, the U.S. Supreme Court in its Slaughterhouse Cases decision strengthened the premise of the notorious 1857 Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sandford case. As you might ...

The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” So it was a surprisingly close decision, given this text, when ...

The House has approved a bill to remove from the Capitol a bust of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, who authored the court’s Dred Scott decision, and replace it with one of former ...