What was the Point of the Dred Scott example?

[GinaMaria]

Anyone have any idea what he was trying to convey with this example of the SC? I've been trying to figure that out since last night.

[Cerridwen]

1. I googled and came up with this - maybe it was the St. Louis

connection * was shooting for? Or a subliminal on slavery?

"In 1846, Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the St. Louis Circuit Court. This suit began an eleven-year legal fight that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a landmark decision declaring that Scott remain a slave. This decision contributed to rising tensions between the free and slave states just before the American Civil War."

Here's the link: http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/

[punpirate]

2. To convince...

... black voters that the Republican party will welcome them. Nothing but a pitch suggesting sympathy with emancipation to attract them.

Don't think it will accomplish its aim. If anything, it reminded Missouri residents that they live in a former pro-slavery state.

[Orangepeel]

3. I just asked that on another thread

The point must have been, "I'm not a racist. I like Black people and don't at all think they should be slaves anymore!"

[pretzel4gore]

7. exactly! and 'activist judges'

in the scott case, said that 'property' rights trumped human rights (to freedom etc)...
george's heart's in the right place, using dred scott case as example of goofy supreme court judgements, but he's probably personally less racist and narrow minded then his supporters... and his SC is terrible!

[soupkitchen]

4. Here's what I think

A few weeks ago some of his advisors were probably in the oval office talking about the next Supreme Court judge and one of them said, "Well, we need somebody who is willing to treat the Consitution like Scott tissue."
To which another one of them sneeringly replied, "Yeah, Dred Scott tissue,"
And that meeting was the first thing Bush thought of when asked about the Supreme Court. Not having any idea what they were talking about then, or now, but knowing they were good Conservatives he figured Dred Scott was the way to go.

And that's as good an explanation as any. For who in their wildest imagination ever thought the Dred Scott case would be introduced the 2004 election?

[pretzel4gore]

9. yes. and embarassing to the hateful rightwing foxnrews type

who keep *bush going....
fortunately, for geeb, the mediawhore will ho-hum the whole issue....

[mrbill]

5. trying to look real smart, like a constitutional expert......

but revealing himself as a dumbass.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Trying to convince us he knows history

He's probably feeling guilty about all those keg parties he concentrated on in college when he should have been studying.

[charlie]

8. He must've been soused through high school, then

That's the latest he should've learned about Dred Scott.