Reid and Sanders blast the Dred Scott Republicans

[Donnachaidh]

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Bernie Sanders rightly pegs the constitutional revisionism on immigration from the Republicans for what it is.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-described democratic socialist, said the amendment "deserves discussion" but that Republicans are demagoging the issue ahead of the midterm elections.

"If you think it's a coincidence this is coming up three months before the election, you are mistaken," he said on ABC's "Top Line" webcast.

It does deserve discussion, in order to expose the Republicans. That's precisely what Harry Reid did today.

Reid (D-NV) quoted extensively from a column written by Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson on Friday. Reid read this portion from the podium of his press conference:

The authors of the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed citizenship to all people "born or naturalized in the United States" for a reason. They wished to directly repudiate the Dred Scott decision, which said that citizenship could be granted or denied by political caprice.

They purposely chose an objective standard of citizenship -- birth -- that was not subject to politics. Reconstruction leaders established a firm, sound principle: To be an American citizen, you don't have to please a majority, you just have to be born here.

Then Reid said of Republicans pushing the issue, "They've either taken leave of their senses or their principles."


More at the link --

[Mister Ed]

1. Senses? Principles? Reid is charitable to think that they ever posessed either. n/t

[DFLforever]

2. A kick and a rec

to one of the more important posts of today.