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.

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has asked the justices to largely reinstate his executive order ending birthright ...

The group then cites six cases including Dred Scott v Sandford. The 1857 ruling came a few years before the 1861 outbreak of the US Civil War over the issue of slavery, stating that enslaved ...

A new op-ed from a pair of conservative legal experts only raises unflattering questions about the direction of the right's juridical scholarship.

The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...

Taney, the former U.S. Supreme Court chief justice who wrote what many legal scholars, judges and lawyers regard as the worst decision the high court has ever made: Scott v. Sandford, better known as ...

Illinois' Onized Clubrooms, from their 1933 inception to the 1964 service awards dinner.