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Will the U.S. Supreme Court ever get around to overruling the shame of Dred Scott?| Michael Coard

BY: - March 8, 2022

Language in a Kansas case reminds us that this shameful judgment has never been overturned.

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Here’s 15 things you didn’t know about the ‘Dred Scott’ decision | Opinion

BY: - March 2, 2020

Constitutional scholars state that this ruling is “widely considered the worst decision ever made by the Supreme Court.”

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Who is born a US citizen? Why? | Analysis

BY: - January 19, 2020

If upheld, a federal court ruling would solidify birthright citizenship as the law of the land, and overturn more than a century of federal refusal to grant American Samoans citizenship status.