This day in history March 6, 2019
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Started by metmike - March 5, 2019, 11:26 p.m.

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1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford


Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), also known as the Dred Scott case or Dred Scott decision, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on U.S. labor law and constitutional law. It held that "a negro, whose ancestors were imported into [the U.S.], and sold as slaves,"[2][3] whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen, and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court,[4][5] and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.


The Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford is largely denounced by modern scholars. Many contemporary lawyers, and most modern legal scholars, consider the ruling regarding slavery in the territories to be obiter dictum and not a binding precedent. Bernard Schwartz says it "stands first in any list of the worst Supreme Court decisions—Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes called it the Court's greatest self-inflicted wound."[7] Junius P. Rodriguez says it is "universally condemned as the U.S. Supreme Court's worst decision."[8] Historian David Thomas Konig says it was "unquestionably, our court's worst decision ever.



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By silverspiker - March 5, 2019, 11:29 p.m.
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... no dreadlocks in the SCOTUS....


wtf

By carlberky - March 6, 2019, 8:15 a.m.
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March-5-1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.

March-6-1912 – Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.

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