The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people, including non-citizens, within its jurisdiction. Both the 4th Amendment (illegal searches and seizures) and 5th Amendment (due process) protections by their terms apply to “persons.” Additionally, many federal st…
The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people, including non-citizens, within its jurisdiction. Both the 4th Amendment (illegal searches and seizures) and 5th Amendment (due process) protections by their terms apply to “persons.” Additionally, many federal statutes based on these protections are worded to provide civil rights protections to all those “present in the United States.”
"...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
I am sure that several Republican Justices are prepared to reinterpret the text as they have done with section 3 of this amendment and their invention of presidential immunity for criminal acts done under the color of official acts and having decided that a bribe isn't a bribe as long as delivery of the "gift" used to induce the behavior is delivered after and not before.
I would agree with you IF we were dealing with a court of even a decade ago. BUT this Court is more than happy to dispose of precedents that have been accepted for decades and even centuries.
Were we dealing with a judiciary from even twenty years ago I would agree with you
The operative phrases are "due process" and the meaning of "equal protection."
Due process is a requirement that legal matters be resolved according to established rules and principles and that individuals be treated fairly. As long as they have a reasonably fair process that is intended to be equally applied to all persons in a similar legal position THIS Supreme Court will uphold the Trump regime.
The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people, including non-citizens, within its jurisdiction. Both the 4th Amendment (illegal searches and seizures) and 5th Amendment (due process) protections by their terms apply to “persons.” Additionally, many federal statutes based on these protections are worded to provide civil rights protections to all those “present in the United States.”
Black, White, and Brown.
"...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
I am sure that several Republican Justices are prepared to reinterpret the text as they have done with section 3 of this amendment and their invention of presidential immunity for criminal acts done under the color of official acts and having decided that a bribe isn't a bribe as long as delivery of the "gift" used to induce the behavior is delivered after and not before.
I would agree with you IF we were dealing with a court of even a decade ago. BUT this Court is more than happy to dispose of precedents that have been accepted for decades and even centuries.
Were we dealing with a judiciary from even twenty years ago I would agree with you
The operative phrases are "due process" and the meaning of "equal protection."
Due process is a requirement that legal matters be resolved according to established rules and principles and that individuals be treated fairly. As long as they have a reasonably fair process that is intended to be equally applied to all persons in a similar legal position THIS Supreme Court will uphold the Trump regime.