The fallout from the Dred Scott decision, which helped spark the Civil War, was the subject of a mock re-hearing of the case before a court led by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at Harvard Law School this month. The decision, issued by Chief Justice Roger Taney, is seen as the moral low point of the Court's history. "This is an enduring lesson ... for judges ... to be humble, because Chief Justice Taney was anything but humble," said former Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr.
April 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
A century and a half after the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott decision that no black — slave or free — could ever become a U.S. citizen, the case’s legacy is still being debated.
The fallout from the 1857 decision, which helped spark the Civil War, was the subject of a mock re-hearing of the case before a 10-member court led by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at Harvard Law School on April 7.
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