Bush92
GHBush1992
- May 23, 2014
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The Courts through due process can handle this. We have criminal and civil courts.Sorry, but yes it does. Look into some cases involving jury selection, victim impact statements, and law enforcement.The Courts guarantee this when you get a fair trial and law is applied fairly.6th Amendment already guarantees procedural due process. Through the 6th and the Courts substantive due process is guaranteed. Radical Republicans passed it for purely political reasons. Nothing more. Wanted to force the South to become a Republican stronghold for generations...at gun point. Wish Preston Brooks would have caned Thaddeus Stephens as well. He already left that liberal Massachusetts big mouth Sumter with brain damage.
There is 6th Amendment due process and 14th Amendment due process. But what about 14th Amendment equal protection under the law? What problem do you have with this. Would you like inequality under the law?
You are vastly mistaken if you view this issue only in terms of a criminal trial. The concept of equal treatment under the law ensures that people are not treated differently either in the passage or the enforcement of the law in question. This has nothing to do with criminal proceedings.
You are trying to ignore the equal protection guarantee as it applies to ALL laws. Property, inheritance, marriage, custody, taxes, commerce, employment, etc. There have been many laws passed that have been worded deliberately, by evil people, to include or exclude certain groups in the population. The 14th Amendment provides the antidote to such high-jinks.