A group of Democratic lawmakers has reintroduced a joint resolution to negate a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude “as a punishment for crime.”
A group of Democratic lawmakers has reintroduced a joint resolution to negate a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude “as a punishment for crime.”
Ideally, we could solve this at the level of the 13th, wham bam settled.
In practice, I think what we’re going to end up doing, if we do anything, is chipping away at it; legalizing drugs, moving away from a privatized prison model (And credit where it’s due, big fan of Biden making as much of that push was within his direct power), etc. I also think that it’s not going to be a continuous trip to improvement; I suspect the states that are now losing a bunch of immigrant labor because they “just wanted to scare them” and succeeded at doing just that, are going to go even harder on the privatized prison / legalized slave labor angle. Someone has to harvest those crops, after all, and it won’t be the average voter complaining about immigrants taking those jobs.