oldguy52 - resist, live, love5d ago

Dr. Richardson’s Letter hits (again) at the move toward inequality and voting rights.

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We continue to argue over what is crystal clear in the Reconstruction Amendments. … “The Fifteenth Amendment said: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Once again, it gave power to Congress to enforce the amendment.”

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-21-2026

#HeatherCoxRichardson #AllAreEqual #VotingRights #ReconstructionAmendments

March 21, 2026

On March 21, 1861, former U.S.

Letters from an American
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 6, 2024

@angiebaby
Thought the same thing!
He's dearly beloved of #TFG.
Like he said, "I love the poorly educated!"--Yes, absolutely! 🤣

However:
Women's #suffrage was legalized nationally by means of the #19A only in 1920.

The 3 #ReconstructionAmendments, #13A-#15A, were passed from 1866-1870. Then, in theory, all black men had the right to vote 🗳. It took until #LBS's #VotingRightsActs to seriously eliminate the disenfranchising #JimCrowLaws in the #South.

https://www.history.com/news/african-american-voting-right-15th-amendment

@GottaLaff

When Did African Americans Actually Get the Right to Vote?

The 15th Amendment was supposed to guarantee Black men the right to vote, but exercising that right became another challenge.

HISTORY
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌Nov 9, 2023

@marcelias 👏👏👏👏👏 Excellent team, excellent Marc!

#DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendTheUnion #VotingRights #CivilRights #HumanRights

Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌Nov 9, 2023

@dougiec3 A disgusting master example of neo-feudalistic, insurrectionary "Republican" minority caste unconstitutionally disenfranchising voters.

Things that shouldn't happen in the 21st century without resulting legal punishment!

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #GOP #ElectoralFraud #VoterSuppression #Disenfranchisement #Gerrymandering #CriminalFraud #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #ConspiracyAgainstRights #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion

Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Nov 8, 2023

@skykiss Reminder, that in April and December 1869, Congress passed Reconstruction bills mandating that Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia ratify the Fifteenth Amendment as a precondition to regaining congressional representation; all four states did so.

If they decide to continue to act against the stipulations of the Fifteenth Amendment, there should be impressive consequences concerning the congressional representation of those still-rebellious states.

The Fifteenth Amendment demands:

"Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #15thAmendment #VotingRights #CivilRights #HumanRights #GOP #ConspiracyAgainstRights #OrganizedCrime #RICO #TakeGOPOffTheBallots #ElectoralFraud #VoterSuppression #BallotSuppression #Mississippi

Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Nov 7, 2023

Abraham Lincoln, Republican: “The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible, so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left.”

Mike Johnson, "Republican": You're wrong! America's not a democracy!

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/27/mike-johnson-christian-nationalist-ideas-qa-00123882
#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #MikeJohnson #Insurrection #Rebellion #Overthrow #Confedereds #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfDemocracy

‘He Seems to Be Saying His Commitment Is to Minority Rule’

A Q&A with historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez on the Christian nationalist ideas that shaped House Speaker Mike Johnson.

POLITICO
Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Nov 6, 2023

@makkhorn Everyone dissenting with lawless Trump, lawless, insurrectionary "GOP" & Leonard Leo's subversive anti-American judicial appointment machinery corrupting the courts should be most welcome to support & defend the Constitution, human & civil rights!

#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion

Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌Nov 5, 2023

@jstatepost A criminal organization, that for decades has been employing methods of electoral fraud to gain unjustified representation in any parliament in the U.S., formally demands to be taken off the ballots, due to its serial conspiracy against rights of Americans!

#RuleOfLaw #FreeAndFairElections #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendDemocracy #YourVoiceMatters #YouMatter #RaiseYourVoice

Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌Nov 5, 2023

@realTuckFrumper Mike Johnson no longer has his Confederacy (has been defeated), but is still on his own crusade against the Fourteenth (Reconstruction) Amendment, which Louisiana & the other ex-Confederate states had to ratify to regain representation in Congress.
SCOTUS's 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (use of contraceptives) was based on the Fourteenth Amendment.

P.S.: Leonard Leo's protégé Johnson is either intellectually unable or unwilling to tell contraception from abortion.

https://www.concordlawschool.edu/blog/constitutional-law/contraception-and-the-14th-amendment/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #14thAmendment #AbortionRights #ContraceptionRights #Contraception #Freedom #DueProcessClause #EqualProtectionClause #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Overthrow #CleanSCOTUS #JudicialInsurrection #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Bribery #MoneyLaundering

Contraception, the Right to Privacy, and the 14th Amendment

No discussion of the 14th amendment would be complete without discussing Griswold v. Connecticut, which challenged a law prohibiting the use of contraceptives.

Concord Law School
Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌Nov 4, 2023

@_L1vY_ @HopeVanDyne Right!

Confederate Republicans-In-Name-only can't ever win in a single election, if they didn't suppress masses of voters known to be casting their ballots wisely not for the anti-electorate party, "GOP".

#RuleOfLaw #DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #DefendTheConstitution #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfTheConstitution