Written by a slaveholder and joined by five other slaveholders, Dred Scott v. Sandford's reasoning is continuous ... Maybe you don't agree with any of that. In that case, I'll just summarize ...

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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on May 15 on the federal government’s request to be allowed to implement President ...

Enslaved Black people existed in a vacuum outside citizenship with “no rights that the White man was bound to respect,” as Justice Roger Taney put it so infamously in the 1857 Dred Scott v.

In a brief order, the justices put off a decision ... The citizenship clause reversed the Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which had denied citizenship to Black ...

The Supreme Court said Thursday that it will review President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors, scheduling a ...