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A bazillion cases have determined you can be ID'd to exercise a right granted to 'people'. (Illinois FOID still hasn't been overthrown). The constitution prot
by mothballed 9mo ago
A bazillion cases have determined you can be ID'd to exercise a right granted to 'people'. (Illinois FOID still hasn't been overthrown).
The constitution protects rights of citizens to vote.
It does seem bizarre you need an ID to show you are a 'person' to exercise the right of people, but not an ID to show you are a citizen to exercise the right of citizens.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but it's blindingly inconsistent across rights. Surely it is at least as easy to show you are a person without ID, as it is to show you are a citizen without ID...
- atmavatar 9mo agoIt also seems bizarre that living US citizens were denied birth certificates because hospitals refused treatment of their pregnant moms due to race, forcing them to use midwives.