The United States Supreme Court decided that the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent,
and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
The decision is widely considered the worst in the Supreme Court's history, being widely denounced for its overt racism, judicial activism, poor legal reasoning,
and crucial role in the start of the American Civil War four years later.

The Court viewed the principle in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" through the lens of white supremacy.
Those words "would seem to embrace the whole human family," the Court acknowledged. However, "it is too clear for dispute, that no one had ever intended such equality to apply to Black people, enslaved or free."

Disgraceful.

en.wikipedia.org - Dred Scott v

Judicial activism, poor legal reasoning, and wildly unethical behavior...

The more things change the more they stay the same.