‘Allow Me to Retort’ with Elie Mystal (2022)
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments
The fourteenth amendment is the fulcrum of the constitution. It was put together by people with a genuine vision and informed by freed african am an activist, writers, thinkers, critics, et cetera. The first case that came up out of the reconstruction amendments was a thirteenth amendment case called the slaughter house cases. People go, if those people are originalists, where are you, elly? And i'mlike, im a fourteenth Amendment is rierologist. I have an expansive understanding of what the thirt fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were capable of doing.
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