Prison Labor Reform on the November Ballot in These 5 States
Voters in five states will soon decide whether slavery in the form of prison labor should be prohibited amid prison reform efforts.
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Voters in five states will soon decide whether slavery in the form of prison labor should be prohibited amid prison reform efforts.
Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermont have an opportunity to vote to “End the Exception” and abolish slavery this November.
Should the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment now be revisited 147 years after the amendment was ratified, followed five years afterwards by a Supreme Court decision whose interpretation of the clause has persisted since then?[1] Just as the Slaughterhouse Cases decision has persisted, so has the controversy surrounding it.
President Biden announced this month that he is erasing $10,000 in student loan debt. The GOP soon went ballistic.
Alabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont voters will decide on constitutional amendments banning slavery and involuntary servitude.