Bipartisan no-brainer: Here's the easiest good thing the KY legislature could do
Linda Blackford: Surely we can all agree the Kentucky Constitution should no longer have language that allows slavery in our state.
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Linda Blackford: Surely we can all agree the Kentucky Constitution should no longer have language that allows slavery in our state.
“A lot of times what we do in the Legislature is to catch up with where the people are,” one state senator says.
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.