• Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime.

    Irrelevant to this conversation.

    Persons faced with an unconstitutional licensing law which purports to require a license as a prerequisite to exercise of right… may ignore the law and engage with impunity in exercise of such right.

    By this logic, voter registration isn’t in the constitution, so you might be able to make the argument that it violates the 14th, 15th, 19th, and 24th amendments. Again, by this logic, regardless of if people have proper voting registration or any voting registration at all, they should still be able to vote anyways. The 4 Democrats mentioned in the above article pass a law against the above.

    The state cannot diminish the rights of the people.

    Tell that to the Republicans that introduced the above bill.

    there can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of his exercise of constitutional rights

    What about the right to protest of UCLA students last April being violated because of false claims of anti-semitism, or the right to protest of Columbia students last March because of similar false claims? Did the US care about imposing sanctions or penalties on those people, or did they just detain and deport them instead?

    a person cannot be compelled “to purchase, through a license fee or a license tax, the privilege freely granted by the constitution.”

    Again, tell that to Republicans that introduced the above bill.