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

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect ...

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

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 ...

Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott, is working to keep his legacy alive. Jackson is also the founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation. A 9-foot-tall monument stands in ...

“Common law doctrine [of citizenship by birth] was the law of the land until it was erroneously rejected by the Supreme Court in its 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which declared that ...

These historic sites will lead visitors into encounters with the lives of Scott Joplin, Dred Scott and Huck Finn's pal Jim as well as subjects such as baseball, jazz and more. Here are just a few ...

The order, if approved, would deny citizenship to those born after Feb. 19 whose parents are in the country illegally.

It is known most notoriously as the site of the Dred Scott case. The case involved a slave, Scott, who was suing for his freedom; the U.S. Supreme Court eventually decided he had no right to sue ...

The historian Samuel Eliot Morison described it in 1969 as the most important court case involving slavery before being eclipsed by that of Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. You may use this ...