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30 Sep 2024, 4:00 am by Josh Blackman
9/30/1857: Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis resigns from the Supreme Court after Dred Scott v. [read post]
28 Jun 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Nearly two decades ago, Graber contended that Chief Justice Roger Taney’s infamous pro-slavery majority opinion for the Court in Dred Scott v. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 6:05 am by Katherine Yon Ebright
Former President Donald Trump has promised voters that, if re-elected, he would “immediately” invoke the Alien Enemies Act to effect mass deportations of non-citizens from Mexico. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 9:30 pm by ernst
While Davis was on the SJC, the court issued advisory opinions on two of the most explosive issues in American politics: Black voting rights after Dred Scott v. [read post]
30 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Josh Blackman
9/30/1857: Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis resigns from the Supreme Court after Dred Scott v. [read post]
24 Sep 2023, 8:00 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Booth, Jonathon, Delegitimizing the Supreme Court: The Lessons of Dred Scott (August 28, 2023). 51 UC Law Constitutional Quarterly, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4554642 “This Article examines how anti-slavery Republicans delegitimized the Supreme Court in the aftermath of Dred Scott v. [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 3:59 pm
This Article examines how anti-slavery Republicans delegitimized the Supreme Court in the aftermath of Dred Scott v. [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 3:59 pm by Christine Corcos
This Article examines how anti-slavery Republicans delegitimized the Supreme Court in the aftermath of Dred Scott v. [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Justice Nelson’s concurrence in Dred Scott v. [read post]
25 May 2023, 11:06 am by Lana Ulrich
Sandford (1857): In this pre-Civil War case, Dred Scott was an enslaved man who was taken by his enslaver into a free state (Illinois) and a free federal territory (the Wisconsin territory). [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
     Benjamin Curtis, the Boston lawyer who famously resigned from the Supreme Court after it issued its decision in Dred Scott v. [read post]