Incorrect. Do we need to go justice by justice to see what they ruled and what party they were affiliated with?
Dred Scott v. Sandford,
[a] 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), was a
landmark decision of the
United States Supreme Court that held the
U.S. Constitution did not extend
American citizenship to people of
black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and
privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
[2][3] The decision is widely considered the worst in the Supreme Court's history, being widely denounced for its overt
racism,
judicial activism, poor legal reasoning, and crucial role in the start of the
American Civil War four years later.
[4][5][6] Legal scholar Bernard Schwartz said that it "stands first in any list of the worst Supreme Court decisions". A future chief justice,
Charles Evans Hughes, called it the Court's "greatest self-inflicted wound".
[7]
In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision against Scott. In an opinion written by
Chief Justice Roger Taney, the Court ruled that people of African descent "are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution
Taney supported
Andrew Jackson's presidential campaigns in 1824 and 1828, and he became a member of Jackson's
Democratic Party.