[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp on Dred Scott: "The North did not accept it, and the only part that wasn't supported by American law is the claim that African descended people could never be citizens.
The rest of it was legally accurate and supported by the existing body of law."

More cockamamie nonsense the truth of which we've reviewed at length but you just can't accept and still keep your coveted C.L.C.P.
That's too bad.

[DiogenesLamp]

More cockamamie nonsense the truth of which we've reviewed at length but you just can't accept and still keep your coveted C.L.C.P.

I do not even know what you mean by "C.L.C.P", but I am long accustomed to you using the phrase "cockamamie nonsense" whenever you've come up against something you can't refute.

Dred Scott loses his case strictly from Article IV, Section 2. Indeed, you would have thought any competent attorney of the era would have advised him against filing it because so long as Article IV, Section 2 remained part of the Constitution, no state law of any sort (outside the laws of the state holding him) could rescue him from his condition.

But I guess they had irrational liberal lawyers back then too, who would hope courts would ignore the plain letter of the law, and make something up more to their liking based on emotional pleading.