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Descendants of Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Davis and the principal figures in the infamous Dred Scott decision will come together for a Symposium on Reconciliation and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts on July 1...

Symposium will bring together descendants of Dred Scott, Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Davis

Dred Scott, Reconciliation, Ethnic Fairness...

Honorable James M. Redwine on Fourth of July

The United States Supreme Court has itself occasionally succumbed to implicit bias and popular opinion then later attempted to atone for it. The Dred Scott (1857) and Plessy v. Ferguson (1892) cases co...

It’s our country’s birthday: Let’s have a party and invite everyone

A big heart making a smaller world “Be kind to each other.” This phrase closed many of Judge N. Patrick Flanagan’s messages for decades, and he meant it. In his courtroom, Judge Flanagan strove to trea...

About Judge Flanagan