Really?

Are the Republicans really going there, invoking one of the worst Supreme Court rulings and one that we fought a civil war over?

Republican group cites notorious Dred Scott ruling as reason Kamala Harris can’t be president
Group also challenged right of Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley to appear on Republican primary ballots
The Indepentent
By Gustaf Kilander
August 28, 2024

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which stated that enslaved people weren’t citizens, to argue that Vice President Kamala Harris is ineligible to run for president according to the Constitution.

The group also challenged the right of Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley to appear on Republican primary ballots.

The Republican group’s platform and policy document noted that “The Constitutional qualifications of Presidential eligibility” states that “No person except a natural born Citizen, shall be eligible, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

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The document and the citing of the Dred Scott decision were initially noted by lawyer Andrew Fleischman on X, formerly Twitter.

The group, which adopted the document during their last national convention held between October 13 and 15 last year, goes on to argue in the document that a natural-born citizen has to be born in the US to parents who are citizens when the child is born, pointing to the thinking of Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

And you still think that the Republicans are not racists?

Republican Group Says Kamala Can't Be President Because This 170-Year-Old Supreme Court Decision Likens Her to a Slave
The National Federation of Republican Assemblies are attempting a gross and racist stunt.
The Root
By Candace McDuffie
August 26, 2024

Former president Donald Trump set the tone in his numerous attempts to disparage Vice President Kamala Harris to keep her from the White House this November. However, his allies have taken things a wildly racist step further.

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A reminder: Dred Scott v. Sanford declared that slaves weren’t U.S. citizens and thus not protected by the federal government; it’s wildly considered one of the most reviled decisions in the history of the Supreme Court.

According to the platform and policy document from the NFRA, the way that the Constitution describes presidential requirements disqualifies Harris entirely. The group also questioned the validity of Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy running for president based on citizen requirements which state that only “natural-born citizens” can hold the position.

The documents argued that Harris, Haley and Ramaswamy had parents who “were not American citizens at the time of their birth.” Problem is, the Dred Scott ruling (which was overturned, by the way) has nothing to do with Harris, Haley or Ramaswamy, and the NFRA cited it for no good reason except to...maybe call Harris a slave...?

This is just blatant racism! Pure and simple.

The tactics of the NFRA serve as just another excuse to endorse Trump, which the group officially did back in October. In a statement to The Independent, the group’s president Alex Johnson doubled down on his attack on Harris.

“We firmly believe that faux Democrat Ms. Harris should never hold office for any of the many reasons people choose to highlight, including her party’s tactics on dividing people by race and class, which mirror those that have led nations like Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea into totalitarian regimes,” he stated.

This is not your father’s Republican party but a party taken over by a racist who’s father was in the KKK, the Washington Post wrote, “Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was arrested twice: in 1927 during a Ku Klux Klan riot”.

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A minor incident happened in town but the right-wingers caught the scent of it and it is now the "cause du jour" for them.

So what's the beef?

Well a health inspector was inspecting a restaurant. Yup, that is what started it, the health inspector was making a routine inspection when the owner started videoing her inspection and when he got too close she is alleged to have pushed the camera out of her face. The owner then said that was assault and followed her around videoing everything,

He called the police, the police came and he gets into a hassle with them, raises his voice and gets arrested. The charges were later dropped. But it has become "Cause célèbre" for the right-wing people.

 

These are some of the comments on the video...

• It's time cops get charged this stuff would end no accountability
• This owner is the 1st and the only business man standing against the corrupt inspectors.
• Our entitled public Servants need to be checked, or this is going to get ugly. This rules and laws and accountability for us but not for any of them is bull. "We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing." Welfare Recipients with badges.
• Dirty corrupt disgusting public servants plain and simple!!
• Dirty, corrupt public servants: global exposure!
• Just a bunch of tyrants , protecting their own...
• Get the witch trespassed so she can never inspect the place again.

But all the comments were negative...

BACK THE BLUE 100%, this owner is a POS instigator, he should be embarrassed for the way he acted.

At the very end of the video there was this conversation...

going to the car I don't know what you're doing were you headed down were you patted down for weapons so I don't know what you have don't matter I don't

 

know man that matters what are you Korea that matters yeah all right

you're gonna do that now you're under arrest

I don't know who or why brought in race into it? But it sounded like the owner brought up race of the officer.

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Since I wrote this last night, everything about the incident has been taken down from the town's Facebook page.