@hasani@StillIRise1963 For others, who also weren't familiar with this: "In this ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts. The opinion also stated that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from a Federal territory. -1857"
"The decision of Scott v. Sandford, considered by many legal scholars to be the worst ever rendered by the Supreme Court..."
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