Slavery is on the ballot for US voters in five states in push against 13th Amendment loophole
Voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont will decided whether to close legal loopholes related to prison labour enslavement.
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Voters in Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont will decided whether to close legal loopholes related to prison labour enslavement.
Oregon's proposed change repeals its exception clause while adding language allowing a court or probation or parole agency to order alternatives to incarceration as part of sentencing.
Restrain them those states will all, i fear keep up with discrimination and crushed to death the hated friedman. >> i mean, it is more than a thwart and the side of the conservative justice. and somebody was giving us a full picture, a full scope of how these decisions have been made to date. >> yes well, once he was exposing is very sloppy originalism interpretation. very sloppy textualism, interpretation. people have been able to hopscotch over the constitution. the reality is that framers of our constitution, included those who drafted the reconstruction amendment. the 13th amendment, 14th ...
Whoa.......before you start yelling at the screen and telling me I'm full of #$^%........let me explain. Abraham Lincoln opened the path to abolish slavery on the first day of 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation.
After the 13th amendment was ratified. it is long past time to completely expunge any exception for slavery from the constitution. joining me now is bianca. this is the executive director of the prisoner rights group. bianca, how did this push for this amendment came about? >> hi, thank you so much for having me this afternoon. you know, as you were explaining, we know there is a cause in the 13th amendment. there is something deeply wrong in our society if we can allow for slavery. we can't allow for it under any circumstances. feel free to fill in the blanks, fell on the sentence. larry is o...