“Four Haitian women who were deported from the United States in February were found beheaded and dumped in a river several months later, lawyers said in court documents.”
@HikariUber alright, my friend. i appreciate (and share) your cynicism about the law's ability to prevent subjugation and about the limits of the civil rights movement's success. but agreeing with clarence thomas to weaken the equal protection clause seems... bad?
@Skoltopia@fdgarrison the vision of an impotent federal government died when the union crushed the south, redefined "property" rights, transformed the constitution etc. the idea that the commerce clause should be read as narrowly as possible is contradicted by that history
@thejesterhead9 you: 5th and 14th don't explicitly say the EPC applies to the federal govt
me: the 14th also doesn't explicitly say anything about incorporation, yet we accept it
you: ???
@HikariUber "My interpretation" is the interpretation that was won by the civil rights movement. The EPC applies to the states and the federal government. Thomas is arguing that the EPC doesn't protect DC residents from racial segregation (which is what Bolling rejected)
@HikariUber oh this is about it creating an "affirmative duty", guess i missed that. im all for that, but idk why that duty wouldn't also apply to the federal gov't through the due process clause