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Amendments were intended to guarantee the freedom of former slaves and grant them certain rights. section 43 of the 13th amendment is one that often forgotten are overlooked. it was added after the civil war, to keep former and future confederates out of congress. here's what it states. no person shall be a senator or representative in congress or elect or of president and vice president or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath as a member of congress to support the constitution of the united states, shall have eng...

Process. Heres a small portion of it. These videos are just part of the evidence in various Capitol Riot Court cases. So thats the reality, what you are seeing with your own eyes. Now for the unreality several republican lawmakers and rightwing fox hosts are desperate trying to bury what happened on that day, and you heard them already claim the attack was mostly peaceful, and the rioters were not armed or they were not really pro Trump Supporters and a mob. In fact, republican congressman andrew klei thinks what we saw here resembles a normal tourist visit. And now, this is the d. C. Metro of...

Voters claims the u.s. constitution disqualifies republican congressman madison hawthorne from running again. they have filed their challenge with the state board of elections claiming that cawthorn failed to comply with the 13th amendment which states -- to support the constitution of the united states virtual having engaged in insurrection or rebellion. >> the challenge says cawthorn's action create belief that he helped facilitate the insurrection, including a speech supporting trump at the rally, other comments in published reports. his office told the associated press, activists are twist...

So-called justice system does when it gets its claws into black boys, unquote. a really compelling thing for a victim of a crime to say. how often did you see this theme repeated, young black men convicted of a crime and then they never leave the legal system? >> i mean, more often than not. once you are within it, it's a hampster wheel. and you really cannot get off because they have parole, they've got the absence, the second chances. that chapter talks about the poin yens and moments of real humanity and expression of second chances and knowing the justice system f there is one, has to do w...

Virginia put the first african-american woman in the state legislature in 1928. so i know the history, i know robert bird, the former senator, the late senator. i know what he did in the latter part of his life. yes, he was a member of the ku klux klan, but in the latter part of his life, he changed, and i know that he would understand better the idea that there is a moment in history when a simple rule, as i wrote in an op-ed piece in the "houston chronicle," a simple rule does not, if you will, supersede the constitutional value and stated right of the 15 th amendment of the right to vote. i...