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Dred Scott

SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/22/2023

Ron DeSantis is Making History a Political Issue; What does His Book Say?

by David Waldstreicher

Nobody paid much attention to the Florida governor's 2011 book "Dreams from Our Founding Fathers." Maybe we should now—it spells out a justification for a deeply conservative view of the constitution that dismisses the significance of racism in the founding and in the doctrine of originalism.

SOURCE: New York Times
12/21/2022

Was the Civil War Inevitable?

by David W. Blight

As a growing number of Americans entertain the idea that dissolving the nation might be better than holding its incompatible parts together, it's worth revisiting the series of decisions that led to the Civil War, and to ask whether the nation has, or will, experience the equivalent of the Dred Scott decision.

6/5/2022

The Dobbs Decision Punctures the Supreme Court's Sacred Mythology

by Alan J. Singer

The Supreme Court uses a myth of its own impartiality to justify a legacy of judicial review that is tainted by its service to slavery and Jim Crow.

SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/1/2021

The Statue of Chief Justice Taney Never Belonged in the Capitol

by Corey M. Brooks

“If a man,” famed Massachusetts radical Charles Sumner asserted, “has done evil during his life he must not be complimented in marble.” Instead Sumner demanded “the name of Taney … be hooted down the page of history.”

SOURCE: New York Times
9/22/2020

Down With Judicial Supremacy!

by Jamelle Bouie

The power of the courts to define the meaning of the Constitution has been challenged by legislative, executive and popular action at different times in American history. If that prospect seems scary, remember that it's the process that overthrew the Dred Scott decision as the law of the land, argues NYT columnist Jamelle Bouie.

SOURCE: TPM
10-24-17

Roy Moore: Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling Was ‘Worse’ Than Upholding Slavery In Dred Scott

“We’ve got to go back and recognize that what they did in Obergefell was not only to take and create a right that does not exist under the Constitution but then to mandate that that right compels Christians to give up their religious freedom and liberty.”

SOURCE: Time Magazine
3-8-17

How Descendants of a Slave and a Supreme Court Justice Righted a 160-Year-Old Wrong

The family of former Supreme Court Justice Roger Brooke Taney has offered a public apology to the descendants of Dred Scott on the 160th anniversary of the landmark decision.

SOURCE: NYT
9-4-16

He Denied Blacks Citizenship. Now a City Is Deciding His Statue’s Fate.

Frederick, Md., is debating how to remove a bronze bust of Roger Brooke Taney, the Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision.

SOURCE: Corey Robin Blog
10-9-15

When Conservatives Invoke Lincoln: From Dred Scott to Obergefell

by Corey Robin

But Lincoln never said what they say he said. He said the opposite.

SOURCE: Raw Story
9-10-15

Mike Huckabee: Dred Scott decision ‘is still the law of the land’ regardless of 14th Amendment

"[T]he Dred Scott decision of 1857 still remains to this day the law of the land which says that black people aren’t fully human."-- Mike Huckabee

SOURCE: The New Yorker
7-8-15

What Does Marriage Equality Have to Do with Dred Scott?

by Amy Davidson

In part, Dred Scott is simply being used to give Obergefell a bad name—as pure invective, another way to call the decision rotten and the Supreme Court deluded.

3-8-15

The Dred Scott Case Said Blacks Had No Rights the “White Man Was Bound to Respect.” But in the West Things Turned Out Differently.

by Adam Arenson

In the West, many Americans expanded their citizenship rights in ways Roger Taney never anticipated.

8-29-14

Some Good Can Come Out of Ferguson, But Only If We Do This One Thing

by Dr. Albert I. Slomovitz

Let's say the Pledge of Allegiance and focus on the final few words, "one nation under God, Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice For All."