#usconstitution — Public Fediverse posts
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Breaking News: Trump Administration gets new lawsuit over POTUS's Truth Social paywall.
The Intercept Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation are seeking to block a Trump Media & Technology Group service that sells faster access to President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts for up to $100,000 per month.
The suit argues the pay for play arrangement violates the First Amendment's guarantee of equal access to a president's public statements and the Fifth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable conditions for government benefits. https://qz.com/intercept-freedom-press-foundation-sue-trump-truth-social-api-081226 #POTUS #TruthSocial #Lawsuit #1stAmendment #5thAmendment #USConstitution #USGov #Paywall #SocialMedia
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People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.
-- Frederick Douglass (1893)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrederickDouglass #Americans #Racism #USConstitution
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@jamesjoelrussell/116931254713180852
Daddy likes it when you tread hard. #PatriotGames
#1776 #USconstitution #2A #4A #1A are these still things we care about?
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Their Loved Ones Died to Give Us the Voting Rights Act. They Have a Message for the Supreme Court.
One of the simplest and most immediate steps Americans can take regain control of their rights is to simply vote and force accountability on politicians. “Otherwise, you sit there and moan and groan and don’t vote. They’re going to do what they want,”
Paywall free version https://archive.ph/vNuUe
#VRA #Voting #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #Slavery #JimCrow #CivilRights #CivilRightsAct #SupremeCourt #constitution #USconstitution #Callais
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For the "shall not be abridged" 2nd Amendment crowd:
"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."
- 14th Amendment#USConstitution #DueProcess #Fascism #DHS #ICE #CBP #FederalTerrorism #PapersPlease
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People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.
-- Frederick Douglass (1893)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrederickDouglass #Americans #Racism #USConstitution
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Morning #Mists #Fogbow #LakeSantaFe #Florida
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Trump fired Roger Rogoff, the new top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle, less than an hour after the attorney was unanimously appointed by the federal judges in the district, highlighting tensions between the courts and the president.
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/116873990326384796
Highly recommended thread about the the US Constitution, who wrote it, who it serves.
Please read it all
#July #July4th #4thofJuly #Constitution #USConstitution #Congress #USPOL #us #usa
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"The main aim of the slave states was to block federal power—via the rule of the democratic majority—to take measures to limit or end slavery, and to prevent its westward expansion.
From the very beginning, the southern slave states insisted on the national government relinquishing as much power to the states as possible—and to give them the power to block federal actions binding on the entire United States."
#USpolitics #USConstitution #Slavery
https://www.savageminds.co/p/slavery-states-rights-and-american
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People are asking me about the race problem.... I know of no race problem. The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem -- whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.
-- Frederick Douglass (1893)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrederickDouglass #Americans #Racism #USConstitution
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota
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“The written Constitution is for the public. It is a feint, designed to distract the unserious from the much more important Constitution that exists exclusively as ideological vapor circulating around conservative legal thought.”
#scotus #birthrightcitizenship #14thAmendment #USConstitution #ruleoflaw
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Why Have Liberals Abandoned a Moral Reading of the Constitution?
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Three Supreme Court justices believe the 14th Amendment doesn't say what it so plainly says.
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The US Supreme Court has voted to uphold the principle of #BirthRight citizenship as laid out in Section 1 of the #USConstitution's 14th amendment
Yet three Justices: Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito, have manged to dissent from the ruling. Justice Thomas suggested that the amendment referred to Black Americans.
It seems that a straight forward reading of constitutional text is no longer the operating philosophy for those who refer to themselves as conservatives
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-upholds-birthright-citizenship