The case was first brought to trial in 1847, but was thrown out because of hearsay evidence. During a second trial in 1850, Dred Scott and his wife sued for, and were granted, their freedom.

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

With its decision in Trump v. Casa, the court has become an accomplice in President Trump’s ongoing assault on our ...

The Dred Scott decision, widely recognized as one of the most atrocious Supreme Court rulings in our history, concluded that no black person, free or slave, could be a full citizen of the United ...

As far as the Republican organization’s attempt to evoke the Dred Scott decision in its attempt to delegitimize Harris’ eligibility for president, Dr. Mary Frances Berry, a professor emerita ...

In St. Louis, a descendant of Dred and Harriet Scott, the couple of the famous Dred Scott decision, is shedding light on her family's story.

Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom on the same grounds where slaves were once auctioned off on the front steps. A huge piece of history sits right in downtown St. Louis, ...

Dred Scott is wrong because U.S. citizenship, properly understood, does not turn upon the consent of the polity to citizenship at all but on birth in U.S. territory and obligation to follow U.S. ...

Dred Scott, an enslaved African American man, along with his wife Harriet, famously sued for their freedom and that of their two daughters in the landmark Dred Scott v.

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

No, the 1857 Dred Scott case does not make Kamala Harris ineligible for president “We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up ...