Kansas Attorney General apologizes for citing Dred Scott decision in abortion-ban brief
by Cory Doctorow from on (#22RHA)
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is very sorry that his office cited the 1857 Dred Scott case, which established that the descendants of enslaved black people were not US citizens, in response to an ACLU brief in a case challenging a judge's ruling that Kansas's constitution doesn't guarantee the right to have an abortion. (more")