When they decide that they can just change the meaning of a provision of the 14th amend to meet their political agenda, they are contemptuously manhandling the framework of the protection created for Black people in this country. We better have something to say. - ThreadSky

sifill.bsky.social • 37 days ago

When they decide that they can just change the meaning of a provision of the 14th amend to meet their political agenda, they are contemptuously manhandling the framework of the protection created for Black people in this country.

We better have something to say.

Reposted from Sherrilyn Ifill

To my own community: this is not just about immigrants.Trump has set up a challenge to the meaning of the provision of the Constitution written & ratified to ensure our full citizenship. We must protect its integrity in full. We can never be silent when the 14th is attacked. It is our legacy.

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idiokratie.bsky.social•37 days ago

Surprise! They've only been doing it with the 2nd amendmend for what, 20, 30 years now?

deadlyflowers.bsky.social•37 days ago

The whole thing, if you scan through constitutional case law.

draye.bsky.social•37 days ago

We have been saying something… it is why those of us who voted… voted against this regime… seems the only real actions that one can engage in is working now to inform, register, and turnout folks for 2026 🤷🏾‍♂️

itsdrnatalie.bsky.social•37 days ago

We’ve done our part. We’ve been the workhorses. It’s time for others to pick up the pace.

blackbeewise.bsky.social•37 days ago

We can not be silent .

commonsence24.bsky.social•37 days ago

Key word in the 14th... CITIZENS.

arnoldoaad.bsky.social•37 days ago

Suppose this is the game they are playing. What stops a democratic president from making an EO that says that the "militia" part in the 2nd amendment part means something specific and then takes everyone's guns outside of that definition?

brienmcmullen.bsky.social•37 days ago

They are trying to reverse the outcome of a war.

marmarj.bsky.social•37 days ago

About 44 years ago my middle school social studies teacher required us to memorize one section of the US Constitution. This was it: 14-1.

infortheride.bsky.social•37 days ago

Where exactly do you intend to say something about this when the court of final jurisdiction is corrupted? What we need to do for now is to save as many as we can from the clutches of this system in the 1st place. The end for them, it we fail, is a Trump concentration camp. Unacceptable.

jennalice.bsky.social•37 days ago

What they are doing is proving that peace was never an option.

curiouskev.bsky.social•37 days ago

When are House and Senate Democrats going to hold a news conference and call out Trump and the Republican collaborators? Hold the line.

aaronc-smith.bsky.social•37 days ago

The successfully read-out of 2A the whole “well regulated militia” part. So this attack on the 14th makes me really nervous about where the 14th will be 20 or 30 years from now.

janjohnson.bsky.social•37 days ago

I expect Justice Jackson to so expertly and eloquently, but something needs to happen before it gets to that point.

muzhudby.bsky.social•37 days ago

My suggestion is that we let the gooses know that the ganders can define the terms in the 2nd amendment to the point that they will be automatically enlisted in a state controlled militia upon acquiring a gun which must be registered and tracked under penalty of prison for failure to do so.

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