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 ...

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 ...

In 1833, a man named Dred Scott crossed a border. Scott didn’t traverse nations. Just a work trip, of sorts, from Missouri to Illinois. But as a slave in a pre-abolition (and rapidly fracturing) ...

The notorious Dred Scott decision held that Blacks were not citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court. Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., led the effort in the House to remove the Taney bust.

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 ...