By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 6, the 65th day of 2025. There are 300 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford ...

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President Lincoln despised the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford — now widely seen as one of the most terrible court opinions in history — but he recognized that the president ...

the Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional for Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories in the infamous case of Dred Scott v. Sandford. But opposition to the expansion of slavery ...

The amendment was adopted following the Civil War and had the effect of annulling the Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that Black people were excluded ...