A Better Wisconsin Together: Maria Lazar’s bizarre comments on wrongly decided court decisions

MADISON, Wis. — During a recent interview on right-wing talk radio, conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Maria Lazar did not know the most basic details of perhaps the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court case in our nation’s legal history. Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1850s Supreme Court case Lazar embarrassingly fumbled the details on, held that African Americans were not U.S. citizens...