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There are lots of others that particularly affect black people but not only does it faekt black people. myself, i was assaulted by a police officer in 1992 with handcuffs on. and it was a black police officer who did it. the system went right along with him and persecuting me. so the problems with the justice system transcend race but there is no way to divorce them from race. i think the historical origins of what we see, you can track it all the way back to the post civil war period and the bl...

Voting for him. jonathan turley, also addressed this idea of whether or not this amendment, which as you said, was passed in 1868, has outlived its usefulness. heres what they both said. >> i hope the 14th amendment has not outlived its usefulness, john. the important thing to remember is that at issue is the very first line of the first section of the 14th amendment. and the 14th amendment was put into the constitution after the dread scott decision, which was a horrible decision that treated f...

House and senate not because of immigration. people dont go vote necessarily on that issue but it left a very bad tone. the rhetoric and the heat and this type of immigration debate is very intense and it burns both sides of the aisle. >> jonathan turley, whats the sentiment in this country for the 14th amendment and this idea that, well, maybe in 2010 its outlived its usefulness? >> i hope the 14th amendment has not outlived its usefulness, john. the important thing to remember is that at issue...

Precedents, in fact, in that senate debate that we quoted from, when which the senator from california was asked, does that mean the son of the chinese immigrant is an american, and he went, yes. does that have legal standing? does the fact that the debate that preceded the 14th amendment is clear and recorded. does that mean anything in this equation? >> it does. to be fair to the other side, there have been academics that have argued that those debates have senators saying, quite the opposite....

Simply after dredd scott to reverse that horrible decision, but it also came as a response to what were called the black codes, which are enacted in the south. and these referenced to disenfranchised blacks, and that analogy could be made in many ways to the illegal immigrants. but the supreme court itself in the case i mentioned earlier, it strongly suggested that their view was that the language of the 14th amendment did embrace the children of illegal aliens. what we did not want in this coun...

Precedents, in fact, in that senate debate that we quoted from, when which the senator from california was asked, does that mean the son of the chinese immigrant is an american, and he went, yes. does that have legal standing? does the fact that the debate that preceded the 14th amendment is clear and recorded. does that mean anything in this equation? >> it does. to be fair to the other side, there have been academics that have argued that those debates have senators saying, quite the opposite....

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Were going to live in a police state. really this law represents the final nail of the coffin of their creation of our modern-day black codes, i guess we could call them our brown codes. today is truly a sad day for the state of arizona and the rest of this country. to pretend to deal with immigration by inflicting these kind of laws is just preposterous and irresponsible. >> do you not believe that she says shes going to work on getting these police officers trained so theres some sort of educa...