[Steve_Seattle]

It does not reverse itself.

Yes it does, as in Brown v. Board of Education, which reversed Dred Scott. But they usually don't reverse themselves in their own lifetime, although Kennedy pretty much did that in this case. His concern for state's rights in marriage law evaporated in about two-three years.

[Publius]

...Brown v. Board of Education, which reversed Dred Scott

Brown reversed Plessy v. Ferguson.

[Crystal Palace East]

We will not see this matter reversed, at least in our lifetimes.

The worst thing we can do now is hang ourselves on it in the 2016 General.

Newt failed to read the polls and went into the 1998 Congressional and tried to base the campaign on Clinton’s conduct with Monica. It was a very bad choice, and cost him the Speakership.

2016 needs to be about the WHOLE issue of the direction of America, not individual elements thereof. If we get trapped in the little issues, it lets the Dems set themselves up as small individual “protectors.”

We win by asking:

“Were America’s problems fixed or made worse in 8 years of Obama-Clinton?”

“Are we more safe against terrorist attacks against our homes that we were before 8 years of Obama-Clinton?”

“Did we have ISIS before we had 8 years of Obama-Clinton?”

Were racial relations improved or made worse during 8 years of Hillary and Obama?”

Do you think your children have a brighter future after 8 years of Hillary and Obama?”

“Are you better off economically after 8 years of Obama-Clinton?”

And if Clinton is the nominee, we ALWAYS refer to the current presidency as “Obama-Clinton,” or “Hillary and Obama.”

Bottom line: We win 2016 or lose America.

[Arthur McGowan]

Not quite. I think there never was a decision that literally reversed Dred Scott. The Civil War and the post-war amendments did that.

Brown sort-of reversed Plessy v. Ferguson, but only sort-of. In Brown, the Court carefully decided on the basis of “psychology” and “social science,” NOT on the basis of the Constitution. Thus maximizing, for that moment and for the future, the Court’s LEGISLATIVE POWER. They have done that many times.

[FredZarguna]

Nope. Brown vs. Board of Education reversed Plessy v. Ferguson.

Technically, Dred Scott v. Sandford could not be reversed, because Taney's decision found that Scott was not a US Citizen, and therefore had no standing to sue in Federal Court to begin with. In practical terms, the additional findings of Scott which struck down Congress's power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the ratification of the Constitution, and those which [erroneously] defined US citizenship, were all swept away by the Fourteenth Amendment. But not by a reversal.