Can you try to put on an originalist hat and tell me the best argument from the other side ... precipitated in part by the Dred Scott decision, which had denied citizenship to all Black people ...

TOTENBERG: The 14th Amendment of the Constitution, enacted after the Civil War, was aimed at overturning the infamous Dred Scott decision ... full briefing and oral argument.

It was intended to overrule one of the Supreme Court’s most infamous decisions, its 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v ... allocated one hour for the oral argument, although it will almost certainly last ...

The amendment was adopted following the Civil War and had the effect of annulling the Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v ... have advanced the argument that the clause ...

In a brief order, the justices put off a decision about the lower court rulings and instead scheduled oral argument for May ... s infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which had denied ...

By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ... He supported his argument with data: tables and figures designed to ...

TOTENBERG: The 14th Amendment of the Constitution, enacted after the Civil War, was aimed at overturning the infamous Dred Scott decision, which said basically ... court is asking for full briefing ...

So, for the sake of the argument, let’s substitute for Bobcat Boy an incompetent ... what it has been for nearly 250 years (see Justice Roger B. Taney and the Dred Scott decision for a notable example ...