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HISTORICAL FACTS: Dred scott | History Defined

From SOTU to SCOTUS

The Chief Justice granted my motion.

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New Report Highlights the ‘Fatal Flaws’ Behind Wrongful Capital Convictions

The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death sentences.

Texas Observer

The Dred Scott Challenge or: Why Constitutional Law is Not a Game

Evan Bernick's fourth in a series of guest-blogging posts on birthright citizenship.

Reason

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The Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

Much has been written about President Trump's executive order concerning birthright citizenship. I'll add a few thoughts here. First, this… The post The Birthright Citizenship Executive Order appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Long-standing American principle of birthright citizenship under attack from Trump allies

As President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to implement sweeping policy changes affecting American immigration and immigrants, one of the issues under scrutiny by his allies appears to be birthright citizenship – the declaration in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that anyone born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen,…

The Conversation

Ron DeSantis insists US is ‘not a racist country’, echoing claim by Nikki Haley

Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate concedes country has faced ‘challenges’ over dealing with race

The Guardian - US

Searching for the perfect republic: Eric Foner on the 14th amendment – and if it might stop Trump

The Pulitzer-winning historian of the civil war and Reconstruction considers one way in which some hope the former president can be stopped from retaking office

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Congress votes to remove a bust of the Dred Scott decision's author from the Capitol

The bill calls for replacing the bust of former Chief Justice Roger Taney, who wrote the decision upholding slavery, with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve on the high court.

WEKU

US House votes to remove bust of judge who wrote Dred Scott decision defending slavery

Supreme court justice Roger Taney wrote 1857 decision justifying slavery, widely regarded as one of worst rulings in history

The Guardian - US

Congress acts to remove bust of Dred Scott decision author

The bust of a U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote an infamous decision on slavery could soon be leaving the Capitol

The Independent UK

Dred Scott author Roger B. Taney is one step closer to leaving the Capitol - Roll Call

Democrats wanted to see a broader purge of white supremacist statues, but said removing the former Supreme Court justice is a good start.

Roll Call

Editorial: A devastating defeat for the rights of women

Overturning Roe v. Wade is not the first time the Supreme Court has driven a dagger into the heart of human rights and further divided a deeply troubled nation. But not since the 19th century have there been other decisions so dreadfully indefensible and consequential.

Tribune News Service

Sonia Sotomayor says supreme court’s ‘mistakes’ can be corrected over time

Liberal-leaning justice says ‘there are days I get discouraged … sometimes I cry’ but urges leftwing lawyers to persevere

The Guardian - US

Linda Greenhouse Lives in a Bizarro World on Dobbs

To Greenhouse, overruling Roe is an act of "judicial activism" and "raw power."

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Supreme Court: "Political" since forever

Politics is nothing new in the supposedly august Supreme Court — and it's often been the worst possible kind

Tribune News Service

Stephen L. Carter: The Supreme Court has always been political

In the swirling days since what I suppose we should just call The Leak, a significant theme has been the argument that the Supreme Court has grown deeply politicized. But there never existed a golden age when the court was anything else.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Solomon Jones: The Supreme Court’s draft ruling on abortion invoked ‘state’s rights.’ Here’s why that’s troubling

The U.S. Supreme Court is on the cusp of striking down Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that guaranteed federal protections of abortion rights, and my mind is flooded with thoughts of how this happened and what it means.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: On abortion, both parties can learn from Lincoln

Every February, birthday celebrations for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln bring Democrats and Republicans together around what really matters: mattress markdowns and special sales. Nothing inspires national unity more than discount shopping.

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Solomon Jones: Here’s the real danger of Trump saying the Black prosecutors investigating him are ‘racist’

As a child I was always fascinated by Black History Month. Its lessons taught me that the accomplishments of Black people were vast and wondrous, and that I, as a descendant of those people, could accomplish anything I set out to do.

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