Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...

The court has, for years now, deliberately avoided announcing hard-and-fast rules about the scope of injunctions that federal ...

After the Supreme Court's decision, the former master's sons purchased Scott and his wife and set them free. Dred Scott died nine months later.

There seem to be three camps of people in this country when it comes to reliving U.S. history: Those on the side of embracing ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which stated that enslaved people weren’t citizens, to argue that Vice ...

Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state ... Although disappointed, Frederick Douglass, found a bright side to the decision and announced, "my hopes were never brighter than now." ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says that birthright citizenship incentivizes illegal immigration to the U.S. and that it ...

Trump's lawyers have told the Supreme Court that 20th century presidents were wrong about birthright citizenship.

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 comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred Scott ...

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

which had been denied by the infamous Dred Scott decision. Regarding the “subject to jurisdiction” clause, the court recognized two exceptions to citizenship by birth: the children of foreign ...