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kriykat<p>Black People &amp; US Birthright Citizenship<br><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/03/black-people-us-birthright-citizenship/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">consortiumnews.com/2025/07/03/</span><span class="invisible">black-people-us-birthright-citizenship/</span></a><br>If the definition of citizenship is changed by executive order, there is nothing to prevent Trump or any other president from defining citizenship anyway they choose, writes Margaret Kimberley. By Margaret Kimberly Black Agenda Report &amp;#8220;I&amp;#8216;m just saying if we&amp;#8230;<br><a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Commentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commentary</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Legal</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.s. <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.s.SupremeCourrt <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/13ThAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13ThAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/14ThAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>14ThAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/15ThAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>15ThAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/BirthrightCitizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirthrightCitizenship</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/DredScottV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DredScottV</span></a>.Sandford <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/MargaretKimberley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MargaretKimberley</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/Reconstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reconstruction</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/ShelbyCountyV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShelbyCountyV</span></a>.Holder <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/TrumpV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpV</span></a>.Casa <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/TrumpV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpV</span></a>.NewJersey <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/TrumpV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpV</span></a>.Washington <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/UniversalInjunctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniversalInjunctions</span></a> <a href="https://gs.leftic.club/tags/VotingRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VotingRightsAct</span></a></p>
John Autry<p>January 31, 1865 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed (119-56) the 13th constitutional amendment which abolished slavery, and sent it to the states for ratification (three-quarters of the states would do so by the end of the year). The Kentucky legislature didn't vote to ratify until 1976. Mississippi's legislature finally ratified it in 1995 but failed to submit the paperwork to the federal government until 2013.</p><p>“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a></p>
John Autry<p>December 18, 1865 - Following its ratification by the requisite three-quarters of the states earlier in the month, the 13th Amendment was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a></p>
Ricardo Harvin<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@ChemicalEyeGuy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ChemicalEyeGuy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@fulelo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fulelo</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> literally never ended, it only evolved. There have always been <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/slave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slave</span></a> states.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PrisonIndustrialComplex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrisonIndustrialComplex</span></a></p>
Ricardo Harvin<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> was never abolished in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>, it was only modified, as explicitly defined in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a>.</p><p>The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PrisonIndustrialComplex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrisonIndustrialComplex</span></a> is literally <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SlaveryByAnotherName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SlaveryByAnotherName</span></a>.</p><p>Where are the international sanctions on the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>?</p><p>And people are still confused as to how we can be allies with brutally repressive, and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> regimes. Like attracts like.</p><p>From: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@mostaurelius" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mostaurelius</span></a></span><br><a href="https://mas.to/@mostaurelius/112860186488035991" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@mostaurelius/112860186</span><span class="invisible">488035991</span></a></p>
GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑<p>MAGA Supreme Court Revives Slavery: Could You Be Enslaved?<br><a href="https://thedemlabs.org/2024/07/07/supreme-court-revives-slavery-creating-slave-prison-laborers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedemlabs.org/2024/07/07/supr</span><span class="invisible">eme-court-revives-slavery-creating-slave-prison-laborers/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prisonlaborisslavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prisonlaborisslavery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/13thamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thamendment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelessness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemCast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemCast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a></p>
Democracy Labs<p>MAGA Supreme Court Revives Slavery: Could You Be Enslaved?<br><a href="https://thedemlabs.org/2024/07/07/supreme-court-revives-slavery-creating-slave-prison-laborers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedemlabs.org/2024/07/07/supr</span><span class="invisible">eme-court-revives-slavery-creating-slave-prison-laborers/</span></a><br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/prisonlaborisslavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prisonlaborisslavery</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/13thamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thamendment</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homelessness</span></a></p>
PeachMcD<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://union.place/@labortech" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>labortech</span></a></span> </p><p>You know who's doing this dangerous &amp; essential work⁉️</p><p>INMATES making pennies per hour ‼</p><p><a href="https://union.place/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/EndTheException" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndTheException</span></a></p>
PeachMcD<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@libramoon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>libramoon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@maddad" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>maddad</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@StillIRise1963" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>StillIRise1963</span></a></span> <br>Our entire f'ing economy rests on the labor of prisoners &amp; undocumented migrants <br>Completely unsustainable scapegoating of the victims of our greed/complacency </p><p>It's so frustrating to not be able to feed or clothe myself without being complicit </p><p><a href="https://union.place/tags/lent2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lent2024</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/OccupyLent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OccupyLent</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/EndTheException" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndTheException</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a></p>
Ricardo Harvin<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@bobbelcher" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bobbelcher</span></a></span> The article opens with a glaring error, "...a former Southern slave plantation..."</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Angola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Angola</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> is a *current* <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/slave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slave</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/plantation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plantation</span></a>, and has always been so, as defined by the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a>.</p><p>The form of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> has been altered, but not the fact, and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> is probably the most openly slave state in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a>, along with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mississippi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mississippi</span></a>.</p><p>The article does a great job of explaining this national shame, and calling it what it is: <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SlaveryByAnotherName" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SlaveryByAnotherName</span></a>.</p>
Harry Underwood<p>I mean, what is the logical extension of either position: (a) the prison exception was a mistake of the period which doesn’t qualify as legal slavery but should still be repealed (b) the prison exception was a bad idea which allowed for the <a href="https://union.place/tags/BlackCodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackCodes</span></a>, <a href="https://union.place/tags/ChainGangs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChainGangs</span></a> and other wanton abuses of prison labor to this day like prisoners as barely-paid wild firefighters in <a href="https://union.place/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a>? </p><p>It doesn’t matter. Semantics. Obfuscation. It remains a bad idea and it should be repealed. <a href="https://union.place/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a></p>
Harry Underwood<p>To continue an argument centering around one “poster” on the bird site:</p><p>I think he leans too much into wanting to defend the honor of the <a href="https://union.place/tags/FirstReconstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstReconstruction</span></a> and its authors in order to defend the <a href="https://union.place/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a> as written and criticize the growing description of the prison exception for <a href="https://union.place/tags/InvoluntaryServitude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InvoluntaryServitude</span></a> as ongoing <a href="https://union.place/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a>. The failures of first Reconstruction, since it made the <a href="https://union.place/tags/SecondReconstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecondReconstruction</span></a> (the <a href="https://union.place/tags/CivilRightsMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRightsMovement</span></a>) necessary in the first place. <a href="https://union.place/tags/reconstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reconstruction</span></a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/PrisonSlavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrisonSlavery</span></a></p>
Mastodon Migration<p>Trump cannot run for office...</p><p>"To say that we can discard the Constitution... is to defy the document itself and to ignore what it means to have constitutional rule."</p><p>Of those five limitations (citizenship, conditions of birth, age, residence, lack of insurrectionary past), surely the last is the least constricting.</p><p>"An insurrectionist might or might not also be a convict at the time of an election; either way, he is not eligible to run."</p><p>more...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a></p>
Mastodon Migration<p>This piece by the always fantastic Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, may be the best thing you will read on the subject of Trump's disqualification from running for office for being an insurrectionist.</p><p>Thinking about... : Trump cannot run for office &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/trump-cannot-run-for-office" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">snyder.substack.com/p/trump-ca</span><span class="invisible">nnot-run-for-office</span></a></p><p>"If you pick up your copy of the Constitution... its plain language forbids Donald Trump from running for office."</p><p>more...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Insurection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Insurection</span></a></p>
John Autry<p>December 18, 1865 - Following its ratification by the requisite three-quarters of the states earlier in the month, the 13th Amendment was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a></p>
Ricardo Harvin<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://backend.newsmast.org/@CELSET" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CELSET</span></a></span> Unfortunately, the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> explicitly allows <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> as "punishment for crime".</p><p>The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a> must be replaced, and all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude abolished and made illegal.</p><p>We are not the country we claim to be, it's all lies.</p>
8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]<a href="https://petroskowo.pl/search?tag=BlackCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackCode</span></a> <a href="https://petroskowo.pl/search?tag=13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a> <a href="https://petroskowo.pl/search?tag=Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://petroskowo.pl/search?tag=SystemicOpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystemicOpression</span></a> <a href="https://petroskowo.pl/search?tag=SystemicRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystemicRacism</span></a> <a href="https://petroskowo.pl/search?tag=SystemicViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SystemicViolence</span></a><br><br><blockquote>In 1866, one year after the 13 Amendment was ratified (the amendment that ended slavery), Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina began to lease out convicts for labor (peonage). This made the business of arresting Blacks very lucrative, which is why hundreds of White men were hired by these states as police officers. Their primary responsibility was to search out and arrest Blacks who were in violation of Black Codes. <br><br>Once arrested, these men, women and children would be leased to plantations where they would harvest cotton, tobacco, sugar cane. Or they would be leased to work at coal mines, or railroad companies. The owners of these businesses would pay the state for every prisoner who worked for them; prison labor.<br><br>It is believed that after the passing of the 13th Amendment, more than 800,000 Blacks were part of the system of peonage, or re-enslavement through the prison system. Peonage didn’t end until after World War II began, around 1940.<br>This is how it happened.<br><br>The 13th Amendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." (Ratified in 1865)<br><br>Did you catch that? It says, “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude could occur except as a punishment for a crime". Lawmakers used this phrase to make petty offenses crimes. When Blacks were found guilty of committing these crimes, they were imprisoned and then leased out to the same businesses that lost slaves after the passing of the 13th Amendment. This system of convict labor is called peonage.<br><br>The majority of White Southern farmers and business owners hated the 13th Amendment because it took away slave labor. As a way to appease them, the federal government turned a blind eye when southern states used this clause in the 13th Amendment to establish laws called Black Codes. Here are some examples of Black Codes:<br><br>- In Louisiana, it was illegal for a Black man to preach to Black congregations without special permission in writing from the president of the police. If caught, he could be arrested and fined. If he could not pay the fines, which were unbelievably high, he would be forced to work for an individual, or go to jail or prison where he would work until his debt was paid off.<br><br>- If a Black person did not have a job, he or she could be arrested and imprisoned on the charge of vagrancy or loitering.<br><br>This next Black Code will make you cringe. <br> - In South Carolina, if the parent of a Black child was considered vagrant, the judicial system allowed the police and/or other government agencies to “apprentice” the child to an "employer". Males could be held until the age of 21, and females could be held until they were 18. Their owner had the legal right to inflict punishment on the child for disobedience, and to recapture them if they ran away.<br><br>This (peonage) is an example of systemic racism - Racism established and perpetuated by government systems. Slavery was made legal by the U.S. Government. Segregation, Black Codes, Jim Crow and peonage were all made legal by the government, and upheld by the judicial system. These acts of racism were built into the system, which is where the term “Systemic Racism” is derived.<br><br>This is the part of Black History that most of us were never told about.</blockquote><br><br>(Chuck Allen via my FB friends)
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/13thamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thamendment</span></a></p>
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ahimsa<p>"Merkley co-sponsors bill to close ‘slavery as punishment’ loophole in Constitution’s 13th Amendment"</p><p>"Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, New Jersey's U.S. Senator Cory Booker, and U.S. Representative Nikema Williams (D-GA-05) teamed up to introduce the Abolition Amendment, a bicameral resolution which would strike the ‘Slavery Clause’ of the 13th Amendment…"</p><p><a href="https://ktvz.com/news/oregon-northwest/2023/06/14/merkley-co-sponsors-bill-to-close-slavery-as-punishment-loophole-in-constitutions-13th-amendment/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ktvz.com/news/oregon-northwest</span><span class="invisible">/2023/06/14/merkley-co-sponsors-bill-to-close-slavery-as-punishment-loophole-in-constitutions-13th-amendment/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Juneteenth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Juneteenth</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slavery</span></a> <a href="https://disabled.social/tags/13thAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>13thAmendment</span></a></p>