jesse

Union lawyer. past - @seiu, @unitehere19, @yalelawsch, @tuftsuniversity, political campaigns, worker organizing

[Spiritually New Afrikan: The Negro Subversive @negrosubversive]

“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.”

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clarence thomas is legitimately deranged

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@DanLennington hard to believe the states would have ratified

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@thebeautifulage @danielp_reid scoreboard

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@thebeautifulage @danielp_reid i don't talk to perverts

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@HikariUber i guess my point is that neither the constitution nor the law will save us, but we shouldn't let our enemies make it worse

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@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?

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@USALivingInCA @bmcircle @3nthro @thejesterhead9 as does bolling

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@bearspearing *your

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@thejesterhead9 your commitment to missing the point is admirable. you win. i give up.

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@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

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@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: ???

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@bmcircle @3nthro @thejesterhead9 no shit sherlock. but if ur gonna say that Bolling is wrong because its not in the text, neither is incorporation

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@3nthro @thejesterhead9 where does the fourteenth say that

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@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)

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@3nthro @thejesterhead9 take a peek at the first amendment my friend. you think it doesn't apply to states?

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@HikariUber i straight up do not understand what you are saying. bolling has been good law for 70 years and none of what you are saying has happened

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@thejesterhead9 until we declare the air force unconstitutional, i won't give hardcore textualist readings any credence

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@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