In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United ...

Less than two weeks into this second Trump presidency, the fearmongering has already reached fever pitch. “He can’t do it!” ...

The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s ...

In the executive order attacking the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Trump is making the same arguments ...

In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons ...

referencing the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision that declared African Americans could not be citizens. A number of Black lawyers followed Finney’s path. They ...