On 6 March 1857, in its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott (photo), a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a Federal court.
Rico says that, if the Supremes had gone the other way, imagine how that might've changed the Civil War in the following decade...
And no, he had nothing to do with the Bob Marley song, but should have:
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