Red state lawmaker triggers alarms with call to overturn Fourteenth Amendment

[Superbadbrutha]

A red state lawmaker quietly called on the Supreme Court to overturn the Fourteenth Amendment, but plenty of people are calling out the stunning remark.

The GOP state Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter told local media, "I certainly hope the Supreme Court will overturn Amendment 14," as the state moves to redistrict. The Fourteenth Amendment promises equal protection under the law, as well as due process and birthright and naturalized citizenship.

Ledbetter told the press that the Alabama House is still seeking more power to change their state's elections, saying, "all we need now is the courts to overturn Fourteen, and we can look at the election."

Joyce Vance, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, noted that "this is the same legislative body a court found engaged in intentional racial discrimination in drawing voting maps."

MSN

It's all in our heads, republicans don't want to go back to the days of Jim Crow.

What does the 14th Amendment do again?

 

[IM2]

Yep, and these racists know that is what they are doing.

 

[HikerGuy83]

The Squalid 14th Amendment - LewRockwell

SEC. 1. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection...

www.lewrockwell.com

The 14th is part of the constitution. There is no arguing that.

And the SCOTUS can't "overturn" it. Such a comment by a lawmaker is ignorant.

But it is still a stupid amendment in many ways.

And it's history is not the cleanest (per the article).

It think it needs being clarrified and that includes a rejection of the disgusting doctrine of selective incorporation.

 

[HikerGuy83]

It's all in our heads, republicans don't want to go back to the days of Jim Crow.

If they did, they would lose a significant voting block that they currently seem to be gaining in.

So, I yeah....I don't see that.

I realize it's part of your battle cry (as in propaganda machinery) that has become tired and worn out.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

If they did, they would lose a significant voting block that they currently seem to be gaining in.

So, I yeah....I don't see that.

I realize it's part of your battle cry (as in propaganda machinery) that has become tired and worn out.

Dumbass I didn't say it, this racist from Alabama did. We are seeing republicans and this Trump administration trying to turn back the clock on the rights of black folks and fools like you are trying to tell us to not believe what we are seeing.

 

[IM2]

Hikerguy,

STFU. You know that is exactly what you guys are doing. You picked Trump for that very reason.