Opinion: Micah Beckwith's 'history of what ... thanks to the horrific Supreme Court decision further protecting slavery in Dred Scott v Sandford (1857), this attempt was for naught.

The Supreme Court appeared divided about whether to scale back nationwide orders that have blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship.

It was intended to overrule one of the Supreme Court’s most infamous decisions, its 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, holding (by a vote ... Writing for the six-justice majority, Justice Horace ...

The conflict between President Trump’s wide-ranging crackdown on illegal immigration and the courts is escalating to where the future of the writ of habeas corpus could tip into doubt. It is one of ...

More from Freep Opinion ... the high court has ever made: Scott v. Sandford, better known as the Dred Scott decision. This 1857 decision, written for the majority of the court by Taney (who ...

The Trump directive recalls the era of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the infamous 1857 ... Eastman argued the majority opinion in Wong Kim Ark was also “at odds with” principles underlying the ...

Then, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, in 1856, the Supreme Court held that enslaved individuals are property of their owners and that they are not United States citizens, even if they had been born in ...

The 14th Amendment is rooted “in the darkest chapter of American history” Ford recalled, and he invoked the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1857 ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that ...