Chicago's lesbian mayor, Lori Lightfoot, launched a police raid on Sunday on a predominately black church for holding services in defiance of her coronavirus shutdown orders • /s/BiblicalSubmission

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[–]Dr_Bukkake 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There has been amendments but no constitutional rights have ever been taken away.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Uh, yes there are. Felony prisoners lose the ability to vote as well as own firearms, for example. Many rights, including the 1st amendment, were prohibited during WW2 for fear of spies (the origin of much censorship that has been slowly dismantled over the last century). In fact emergency powers explicitly allow the government to infringe on these rights in extremes, such as a pandemic, as upheld by the supreme court.

Perhaps instead of claiming this isn't true, you mean to be saying it "shouldn't" be done this way...?

[–]72ndGender 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In fact emergency powers explicitly allow the government to infringe on these rights in extremes, such as a pandemic, as upheld by the supreme court.

I believe you, but could you provide the case law for this one? Not referencing martial law, of course.

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Some of those changes were unconstitutional. Just because the established powers at the time okayed it doesn't make it ok. There are plenty of scholars who have spoken about the unconstitutional laws and policies enacted all across the western world. We live in a hypocritical nation.