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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 ...

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A coalition of four states asked the federal judge who recently placed a 14-day temporary restraining order halting Donald Trump’s controversial executive order ending birthright citizenship to go a ...

According to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, a court ruling that black Americans are not citizens, which was overruled in 1868, is “still the law of the land.” But Huckabee seemed to ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . Brazenly, in Citizens United, the court employed parallel logic to the syllogism embedded in the most repugnant ruling it ever made, the 1857 Dred ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column that included a brief discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1857 case that both invalidated the Missouri Compromise and closed the ...

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The Dred Scott Supreme Court case (1857) is relevant today. The justices decided the states had the right to legalize slavery; thus, guaranteeing the constitutional right of slave owners in the ...

ST. LOUIS – FOX 2 continues its honoring of the Black History Series, reflecting on the stories of those who shaped the ...