i know it’s a terrible foie gras to reply to one’s self, but these rulings and hcr’s latest letter coincide
As the 1922 case indicated, Asian Americans could not rely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, to permit them to become citizens, because a law from 1790 knocked a hole in that amendment
Congress overturned Chinese exclusion laws in 1943 and, in 1946, made natives of India eligible for U.S. citizenship. Japanese immigrants gained the right to become U.S. citizens in 1952.
if the court can overturn law by reaching back a hundred years for healthcare and gun control, lots of things become terrible possibilities
