The Espionage Act and Sedition Act criminalized criticism of the government, military, or flag; thousands of Americans – from ...

Looking ahead, Scott remains busy with both big and intimate projects. He recently led "Ripley" and is attached to ensemble ...

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) ...

A marker commemorating Milly Sawyers, a woman who successfully sued for her freedom in pre-Civil War Missouri, was recently placed on the Springfield-Greene County African-American Heritage Trail.

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 ...

A president ignoring a court order would, according to conventional wisdom, trigger a constitutional crisis. Yet, for all this rhetoric of warning, President Donald Trump has never come close to ...

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 ordinary times, someone could read the Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of so-called “universal injunctions” as just the latest example of an old dispute: the proper way to interpret the ...

In Trump v. Casa, the United States Supreme Court finally put an end to the universal injunctions that trial judges had invented to block presidents from pushing their agendas nationwide. These orders ...

For the first time in over a century, children will soon be born in the United States without the benefit of birthright citizenship, thanks to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. Although ...

In its bigotry and deceitfulness, US v. Skrmetti is destined to be seen alongside Plessy, Dobbs, Dred Scott, and all of the court’s other most notorious decisions. Children hold signs and transgender ...

Lynne M. Jackson (second from left) is the great-great granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott showing Randy Burkett, Marcy Hart, and Vickie Hayden around the new renavations and exhibits at the Old ...