Dred Scott

Newt Gingrich Pulls a Trent Lott

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics


Shayana Kadidal

Gingrich epitomizes the craziness of the Right when he came out said giving men held at Guantanamo the right to go before a federal judge is equivalent to the bad decision of Dred Scott.

The Second Amendment: Why The Reliance On The Dred Scott Decision?

Paul Helmke | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics


Paul Helmke

The Brady Center's Legal Action Project has produced a unique document here: the only criticism of its kind to provide a scholarly treatment of the lower-court decision in the D.C. gun case.