Opinion: In effect, the U.S. Supreme Court has opened a "Pandora's box." Just like the Supreme Court did in deciding the fate ...

The court’s ruling has more in common with the Dred Scott decision than with the original meaning of the 14 th Amendment, which enshrined the right to birthright citizenship partially as a ...

The Dred Scott challenge isn't a difficult but rewarding game that ingenious scholars should have an interest in overcoming.

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has released new research on Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple who sued for their freedom. The Scott's case went to the Supreme Court in 1856, where ...

Here is my problem: Dred Scott happened, and kids today should learn about it. But why can’t we say, “Nope, that ruling and many other discriminatory laws like it technically don’t exist.

Constitutional amendments overturned Dred Scott. The 13th (abolishing slavery), 14th (all those born here become citizens) and 15th (the right to vote can’t be denied based on race, color or ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies seems to argue in 2024 that Nikki Haley, Vice President Harris and Vivek Ramaswamy aren’t eligible for the White House. From Yvette Walker: ...

A Republican group falsely argued Kamala Harris is ineligible for president, citing the 1857 Dred Scott ruling Blacks were not U.S. citizens.

She added, “The Dred Scott case accurately expressed what many people in the country at the time who were slaveholders believed.” In the 1857 case, Dred Scott, a Black man in Missouri, sued ...

Lynne Jackson, Dred Scott's great-great-granddaughter and president of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation, joined Brigham Young's descendants for a dinner in her honor on March 1 at This is the ...

It was 1995 when Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott, heard a prompting from God.