John Roberts Sees Black People as Having No Rights He’s Bound to Respect
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John Roberts Sees Black People as Having No Rights He’s Bound to Respect
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote what is likely the most notorious paragraph in the history of Supreme Court opinions. “They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order… and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Taney’s opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) is widely regarded by historians, legal scholars, and even modern Supreme Court justices as the worst Su…
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