U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Photo Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM Justice Clarence Thomas, in his most recent concurring opinion, again raises the issue of whether “substantive due process” ...
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An 1804 graduate of Yale, John C. Calhoun was one of the great political power brokers of the mid 19 th Century, along with ...
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. NewsHour ...
The controversial Dred Scott case of 1857 is considered a hallmark in the question of slavery in the United States. Few realize that Scott once lived at Fort Snelling in St. Paul in present-day ...
Katyal is the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center and a partner at Hogan Lovells. He previously served as Acting Solicitor General of the ...
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who President Biden nominated to the Supreme Court to become the first ever Black female justice, admitted Tuesday that she could not recall the basis for the infamous ...
Dred Scott died of tuberculosis in 1858, the year after the court decision that bears his name. Wikimedia Commons The decision was just what the country didn’t need. America was already torn by ...
ST. LOUIS — There's a new memorial at Dred Scott's gravesite in St. Louis, built to be a more fitting remembrance of the man who changed U.S. history. Minister Brenda Young, with the Dred Scott ...
A family member of the chief justice who presided over the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision has apologized to the family of the slave who tried to sue for his freedom. On Monday, the 160-year ...
More than a century after the Supreme Court declared that Dred Scott and his fellow slaves were not U.S. citizens, descendants of Scott and the court’s chief justice at the time have come together to ...
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. NewsHour ...