The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue ... Scott had claimed that he and the case's defendant (Mrs. Emerson's brother, John Sanford, who lived in New York) were citizens from different states.

John Sandford, who thus became the Dred Scott case defendant. That both Chaffee and Sandford encouraged, if they did not actually assist, Scott’s suit — after the aging Negro had been a bit ...

Scott was finally freed, but not through a court case. The back-and-forth battle continued, making the Dred Scott v. Sandford case a landmark pre-Civil War court case. In recent years, a project ...

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Ending birthright citizenship would not solve our nation's immigration crisis, and it would only make the problem worse.

In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments that the framers of the 14th Amendment heard and explicitly rejected more ...

Sandford, and Meyerson would like to compare ... seeking a declaration of their freedom on various grounds: In Dred Scott’s case, the argument was that he had been taken to reside into a federal ...