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Some legal scholars speculated that a court would be required to make a final determination that Trump was disqualified under Section 3. [209] [240] [241] The U.S. Supreme Court had never ruled on the meaning or application of the insurrection clause. Legal experts expected at least one of these state cases to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...
Multiple rebellions and closely related events have occurred in the United States, beginning from the colonial era up to present day. Events that are not commonly named strictly a rebellion (or using synonymous terms such as "revolt" or "uprising"), but have been noted by some as equivalent or very similar to a rebellion (such as an insurrection), or at least as having a few important elements ...
Prior to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution some free Black men in the United States were given the right to vote. However, this right was often abridged, or taken away. Following Emancipation, Black people were theoretically equal before the law, including theoretical suffrage for Black women from 1920.
The 14th Amendment clause that attorneys argue should disqualify former President Trump from Colorado’s 2024 ballot can apply to presidents, an expert witness testified Wednesday, going directly ...
LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter received a call from the Federal Bureau of Investigations on Jan. 6, 2021 The post Black activists say Jan. 6 insurrection was part of white ...
Shedrick Pelt remembers the endless waves of flags and red hats on Jan. 6, 2021, as a crowd moved along The post The insurrection through the lens of a Black photojournalist appeared first on TheGrio.
The act defined a person as legally "colored" (black) for classification and legal purposes if the individual had any African ancestry. Although the Virginia legislature increased restrictions on free blacks following the Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831, it refrained from establishing a one-drop rule.