• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Correct. States simply don’t have this power. The decision was unanimous for a reason.

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                10 months ago

                My bad. I overestimated the ability of people on this website to infer subtext.

                The last section of Amendment 14 explains why the Supreme Court was more or less correct in its interpretation before you edited your original comment.

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                  10 months ago

                  This is why I added that context to my original comment.

                  All I had to do was add the literal quotes from the constitution to render the supreme court obviously incorrect.

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                    10 months ago

                    No.

                    The Supreme Court ruled that the provisions you cited are not “self executing”. It needs to be enforced by an Act of Congress. You assumed that because it says that, therefore it works on its own without the need for anything else. That’s not how the law works in the US.

                    The text of Amendment 14 §5 which are you so reluctant to post:

                    The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

                    Now tell me, is it not a reasonable interpretation of this clause that the terms of Amendment 14 may only be enforced by Congress and not anyone else.

                    Don’t cite Amendment 10 here. It doesn’t apply. This power is explicitly delegated to Congress.

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        10 months ago

        *terms and conditions apply

        Always has been. States have never had free reign to do anything they want. This is one of the things they cannot do.

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          10 months ago

          States already do things like bar felons from voting and only put on 3rd party candidates that meet a certain signature threshold. Or add barriers to voting, like restricting when you can vote and ID laws.

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            10 months ago

            Pretty much how it goes. Laws affect peons: oh well. Laws affect wealthy politicians: off to SCOTUS for them to overturn it!