Dred Scott vs. Sandford is one of the most famous and important legal battles in the history of the United States. Dred Scott ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom based on having lived in free territories, a legal strategy that had previously succeeded in Missouri. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v.

ST. LOUIS — The site of a historic court decision that fanned the flames of racial injustice leading up to the American Civil War has been restored for only the second time in its history. Renovations ...

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 ...

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) ...

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The "Injustices" series, published by the USA TODAY Network in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, seeks to confront the realities of racial injustice, reckon with their enduring effects, ...

Ryan McClure, executive director of Gateway Arch Park Foundation, talks with the dome under construction photo behind him on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. A view of the ornate dome from the second floor ...