President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the ...

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect ...

The order, if approved, would deny citizenship to those born after Feb. 19 whose parents are in the country illegally.

Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott, is working to keep his legacy alive. Jackson is also the founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation. A 9-foot-tall monument stands in ...

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 6, the 65th day of 2025. There are 300 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford ...

Lynne Jackson, the great-great-granddaughter of Dred Scott, is working to keep his legacy alive. Jackson is also the founder of the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation. A 9-foot-tall monument stands in ...

The historian Samuel Eliot Morison described it in 1969 as the most important court case involving slavery before being eclipsed by that of Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. You may use this ...

These historic sites will lead visitors into encounters with the lives of Scott Joplin, Dred Scott and Huck Finn's pal Jim as well as subjects such as baseball, jazz and more. Here are just a few ...

When Congress was unable to reach an agreement, the Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional for Congress to prohibit slavery in the territories in the infamous case of Dred Scott v.

More than 50,000 people were buried in Greenwood, including Harriett Scott and along with Dred Scott who famously sued for their freedom. However, after it was sold in the late 1970s, the cemetery ...

The premise of the Dred Scott case, per Chief Justice Roger Taney, was that Black people, whether enslaved or free, could never be members of the American “political community,” and thus had ...