“Lincoln saw clearly that if we give up the principle of equality before the law, we have given up the whole game. We have admitted the principle that people are unequal and that some people are better than others. ... At that point, all any of us can do is to hope that no one in power decides that we belong in one of the lesser groups.”

#Politics #USPolitics #AbrahamLincoln #DeclarationOfIndependence #EqualityBeforeTheLaw #RuleOfLaw #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-11-2026

Word of the day is "ethics." -- used to be something we expected leaders to at least *say* they valued.

See also, impropriety (appearance of) -- something to be avoided in public life.

Also 'illegal lottery' ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg78ljxn8g7o

Would someone please take this pr!€( in front of a grand jury and seek an indictment? Whether election fraud or illegal lottery, there's a prima facie case here, surely. Enough is enough.

#musk #electionfraud #impropriety #ethics #equalitybeforethelaw

It feels like we’re living through a slow-moving coup in real time. Oh wait, we are: “Today the United States Supreme Court overthrew the central premise of American democracy: that no one is above the law.”

#History #Politics #PresidentialImmunity #Election2024 #USConstitution #EqualityBeforeTheLaw #SCOTUS #SCOTUSCoup #IDissent #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-1-2024

“Lincoln saw clearly that if we give up the principle of equality before the law, we have given up the whole game. ... Once we have replaced the principle of equality with the idea that humans are unequal, we have granted approval to the idea of rulers and ruled. At that point, all any of us can do is to hope that no one in power decides that we belong in one of the lesser groups.”

#History #Politics #Freedom #EqualityBeforeTheLaw #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-11-2024

I did not know this. Happy birthday to both President Lincoln and NAACP: “On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky. Exactly 100 years later, journalists, reformers, and scholars meeting in New York City deliberately chose the anniversary of his birth as the starting point for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).”

#History #Racism #EqualityBeforeTheLaw #NAACP #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-12-2023

So I'm searching for all things #Nebraska #Nebraskan #Nebraskans

#neleg #newx #UNL #LNK #Omaha #Unicameral #IANR #agchat #rural #UNK #PeruState #UNO #OMA #UNMC #Huskers #BigTen #PlatteRiver #Lincoln #Kearney #SandhillCranes #agriculture #MissouriRiver #Ogallala #Scottsbluff #Chadron #ArborDay #runza #Aksarben #EqualityBeforeTheLaw #negov #GreatPlains #prairie #Cornhusker #corn #WillaCather #sandhills #thegoodlife #Cornhuskers #Niobrara #VisitNebraska