151
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., repeatedly suggested a leading Arab American activist is a Hamas supporter when she testified Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes, and he told her she should hide her "head in a bag."

The activist, Maya Berry, said repeatedly that she did not support Hamas and was "disappointed" by the minuteslong exchange toward the end of a hearing called "A Threat to Justice Everywhere: Stemming the Tide of Hate Crimes in America."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I think the text is pretty direct about permitting it. If it is listed as an exception to that which shall not exist, then it is explicitly allowed to exist.

It's not a de-facto exception by omission, it is named as permissable within the text of the amendment.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The previous commenter is technically correct— since slavery was already legal, the 13th simply carves out prison labor as an exception to the ban on slavery. And, as they pointed out, the legal distinction is important when it comes to individual states banning the practice of prison slave labor.

this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
151 points (98.7% liked)

United States | News & Politics

7124 readers
595 users here now

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS