In its bigotry and deceitfulness, US v. Skrmetti is destined to be seen alongside Plessy, Dobbs, Dred Scott, and all of the ...

Legal minds will have their opportunity to shape the future policies of our land, and I pray they have the grace and wisdom ...

After a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Connecticut Democrats are fighting back to preserve transgender care for minors. Democrats nationwide are supporting two separate measures, the Equality Act ...

The Dred Scott challenge isn't a difficult but rewarding game that ingenious scholars should have an interest in overcoming. It's an invitation to rewrite constitutional text and history in ...

Yet, for all the familiarity of its name and of the bare fact that it bestowed judicial blessing on the institution of slavery, the full story of the Dred Scott case is not widely known ...

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.

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 ...

The name Dred Scott is synonymous with the struggle for freedom. Now, 165 years after the Supreme Court case that bears his name, Scott’s gravesite is a memorial befitting that legacy.

“We should all be embarrassed by the existence of anyone reaching back to the history of slavery and coming up with the Dred Scott decision and dragging it into the conversation,” Dr. Mary ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The new marker at the grave of Dred Scott, photographed on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, at Calvary Cemetery, will be officially ...

Dred Scott and Harriet Robinson Scott in an illustration from the Library of Congress. CATHY WURZER: You know, we started a Minnesota history segment on this show not too long ago and called it ...

The document and the citing of the Dred Scott decision were initially noted by lawyer Andrew Fleischman on X, formerly Twitter. The group, which adopted the document during their last national ...