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Stephen Colbert Trashes The Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment Logic
Stephen Colbert exposed the holes in the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment logic with a single joke.
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Cognitively Declining Trump Needs Teleprompter For 14th Amendment Remarks
Even chained to his teleprompter, Donald Trump couldn’t hold it together while reacting to the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment ruling.
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Trump Melts Down When He Realizes He Could Get Kicked Off The 2024 Ballot
Trump has finally realized that he could get disqualified from the ballot, so he responded by calling the Constitution a trick.
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GOP House Candidates May Be Wiped Out After Federal Court Rules Insurrectionists Can Be Barred From The Ballot
A recent federal appeals court ruling found that insurrectionists whether they are current officeholders or not can be barred from the ballot. According to Bloomberg Law: Candidates who take part in an insurrection may be barred from holding public office under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled, overturning a…
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Battle to Exclude Undocumented People from Census Exemplifies Trump Agenda: Make Many Lives Not Count
Last Friday the Supreme Court indicated that on November 30 it will hear arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal regarding its efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from being counted in the census numbers used to calculate the apportionment of congressional districts. Last September a federal appeals court in Manhattan rejected the Trump administration’s bid to…
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Decrying Same-Sex Marriage Decision, Justices Thomas and Alito Endorse Trump’s Assault on Civil Rights
Last Monday the Supreme Court of the United States declined to hear a case brought by Kim Davis, a former country clerk who, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in the Obergefell v. Hodges case legalizing same-sex marriage, who refused to issue certificates for such marriages because of her religious objections to…
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Opinion: Does America Really Value Equality? What Women and Transgender People Might Say
The Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United case that corporations merited certain rights of personhood. The decision in this case became crystallized in the notorious phrase, “Corporations are people.†This year’s events insistently raise the question of which Americans enjoy the basic rights of personhood in America. How are we doing when it comes…
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Opinion: Texas GOP Bill Allows Officials to Refuse Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
“Texas Senate has no problem with taxpayer-funded discrimination against virtually anyone who doesn’t meet a public official’s personal [religious] standards.”
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National Security Threatened By Religious Amendment In Defense Spending Bill
The Defense Authorization bill should be about making our country safe; not about codifying evangelical Republican hatred and intolerance.
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Judge Decimates the GOP’s Religious Freedom Concept – Strikes Down Mississippi Law
Judge Reeves noted that “the title, history and text of the law showed it to be the State’s attempt to put LGBT citizens in their place.”
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Two More GOP States Pass Laws Nullifying the Constitution
Religious Republicans passed unconstitutional legislation denying a wide swathe of the population their constitutional rights.
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Republican Fail: Evangelical Bigots Did Not Counter President Obama’s SOTU
It is an abomination that an avowed religious bigot like Kim Davis was invited as a protest and counterweight to President Obama’s message
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This is Republican Immigration Reform: Slavery, Drone Attacks And Shredding the Constitution
Conservative bigots love the idea of shredding the Constitution’s 13th and 14th Amendments in place of actual immigration reform
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They’re Serious: Republicans Actively Calling To Shred the Constitution
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The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. The GOP want to shred the Constitution to revert to legal white supremacy
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Note To Evangelical Republicans: This Is America, Love It Or Leave It
Evangelical Republicans hate America with religious passion because the Founding Fathers did not create a Christian theocracy
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Religious Right Serves Restraining Orders On Supreme Court Justices Ginsburg and Kagan
Tt was no great surprise that evangelicals followed the lead of two congressional Republicans and issued religious orders restraining the ‘wrong’ kind of Supreme Court Justices from fulfilling their duly sworn Constitutional duty.
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S.C. Says Constitution Allows Discrimination Against Women So Gay Discrimination Is Okay
The crux of South Carolina’s argument in support of discriminating against gays is that if it constitutionally permissible to discriminate against women, then it is perfectly legal to discriminate against gays.
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America’s Dangerous Dirty Little Secret
Every nation on Earth is plagued with inconvenient, and uncomfortable, ‘secrets’ that are widely known by the population, but are hardly ever discussed. America is no different and one of its dirty little secrets is that although the U.S. Constitution was created to guarantee that all citizens are treated equally, a growing number of Republican states are actively seeking protection to discriminate based on religion.
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In 2014 America Abandoned Its Constitution And Devolved Into a Fascist Theocracy
Republicans in state after state spent the past year hastily passing legislation abolishing other Americans’ 14th Amendment rights
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Texas Legislator’s Biblical Proposal Abolishes Constitutional Equal Rights
Republicans and religious conservatives detest the 14th Amendment for myriad reasons, but chief among them is the guarantee of equal rights for Americans not in the biblical mold championed by Neo Christians; single mothers, atheists, Muslims, non-compliant Christians, and particularly gays.
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Christian Conservatives Are Trying To Use Hobby Lobby To Discriminate Against Gays
Maybe the President regrets intertwining government and religion when he continued George W. Bush’s Faith-Based initiatives. Now they are using their connection to the White House to exact recompense in the form of permission to discriminate against the gay community according to their “deeply-held religious beliefs” the Supreme Court cited mercilessly in its ruling for Hobby Lobby.
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Jon Stewart Is More Accurate than Fox News on Anchor Babies
After taking a brief break from race baiting due to being slapped down by Shirley Sherrod, Fox News has moved on to an easier target, babies, specifically the so called anchor babies. Fox News ratcheted up the rhetoric today by referring to the 14th Amendment as the, “anchor baby amendment.” Lucky for us, Jon Stewart has taken on the lunacy of the right wing anchor baby campaign.
