Which, let me be clear, I do not consider sufficient to counter the avalanche of bad legal news issuing from our corrupted SCOTUS.
As we head into a holiday weekend, something to consider.
Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times:
"it is in the first line of his Gettysburg Address — 'Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal' — that Lincoln enshrines this understanding, shaped by the demands of enslaved people decades before his birth, into America’s national identity.
"It is this vision of the Declaration that was written into the Constitution as the 14th Amendment, whose most consequential section guarantees the equal citizenship of all people born in the United States, a promise the Supreme Court just affirmed against the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship by executive fiat.
“'Let it be borne in mind that this is the government of men representing every people and kindred and tongue under the whole heavens,' said Representative John Bingham of Ohio, a key architect of the amendment, in an 1869 speech defending his work about a year after its ratification, 'and that in the inception of our national struggle for representative government, in 1776, the declaration of the people was not that all white men are created equal, but that all men are created equal, and endowed by their creator with the rights of life and liberty.'
"As we mark, this year, the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, it is important to see that its meaning is dynamic. And that meaning, as we understand it, flows less from the men who signed it than from those who heard its words and took ownership of them as a standard for their freedom and independence — not from Britain, but from bondage."
Section I of the 14th Amendment reads:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 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 of the laws."
The first sentence of Section I was upheld by SCOTUS yesterday as it invalidated one of DJT’s many racist executive orders. The second sentence was upheld when it ruled in favor of marriage equality.
Multiple states are passing laws which brazenly abridge the privileges and immunities of citizens, while the DJT.2 / gopmaga / Heritage Foundation regime orders public agencies to do the same, and instead of acting to defend their constituents, the Republicans of the 119th Congress pile on with discriminatory riders to every bill under the sun.
Whether it's voting rights, medical privacy, or the simple right to exist in your own body with the name of your choice, the Constitution says the government cannot legally do what it's doing. Every law passed that infringes any citizen's equal rights is an illegal law. Every elected person who introduces or votes in favor of infringing a citizen's rights is betraying their oath to uphold the Constitution.
You would think that elected Republicans are too afraid of Trump to stand up for any principles they might have. They should be afraid of the voters. Because Trump can't fire them. Voters can.
Every one of them. Every office at every level. Vote them out. And make sure they know you'll be voting against them, and why.
They have obviously forgotten who they work for, so let's remind them.