14th Amendment
The new angle of the Democrats is to twist the verbiage in the 14th Amendment in order to raise the debt limit; the hell with Congress. Biden created this spending dilemma by ramming through legislation that our government could not afford. Read the 14th Amendment. Paragraph one states that all persons are granted equal protection under the law. Joe Biden wants to cherry-pick phrases in the Amendment to serve his agenda while ignoring the FBI and DOJ’s shameless assault on former President Donald Trump. Equal protection be damned!
Donald Houghton
Quincy
Biden clueless
Boston Herald reports that Warren & Healy are going the road to support Biden. That means they support OPEN BORDERS, approve of high Inflation, agree with rule by Executive Order and support a guy who needs someone in the crowd to remind him that he just came back from a trip to Ireland because he could not remember.
I did not think much of either Liz Warren or Maura Healy beforehand and now know neither cares about the future of the country by supporting a man that is clueless
Paul Quaglia
Billerica, MA
Redistricting mess
I have been following the news concerning the redistricting map created by nine city councilors and was not at all surprised that when this case made it into federal court, it would be shot down (Judge tosses redistricting map, Boston Herald, May 9). While the nine councilors who proposed and supported the gerrymandered map stated it did not violate the Voter Right Act, it clearly appeared to me to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
As US District Court Judge Patti Saris ruled the proposed map likely was unconstitutional and has been thrown out. A new map must be drawn by the Boston City Council that doesn’t use race as a reason to gerrymander districts. District 3 City Councilor Frank Baker stated correctly, “Gerrymandering is gerrymandering whether in pursuit of progressive or conservative goals. The court saw that an unfair map would deprive the residents of District 3 and the citizens of Boston of their time-honored role and stature.”
Everything is now back in the council’s court and time is of the essence as nomination papers are already out there for this fall’s city council elections. The time is now for all 13 members to return to the table and create a new redistricting map that passes constitutional muster. Stop playing politics and consider the rights of all Bostonians first. Political agendas and name-calling do not serve the citizens of Boston well. Just do your job.
Sal Giarratani
East Boston
Our Republic
To many of us, the true proof of a democracy lost is when no matter the law broken, those who break the laws can boldface lie about it, and laugh in the public’s face even internationally. Finally, after those violators demand investigators demand the truth be brought forward, after all of the biased work is done, the accusations of those being prosecuted (or persecuted) are found to be illegally established. We now have too many examples and the highest levels of authority have little to say other than, what are you going to do about it; defiantly. The worst part of is that a” free press”, now works in concert with the politicians and the half of the electorate who feels regulating and controlling the masses is worthy of being sheltered from equal justice. The plan seems to be working and they only have to get away with it until it is too late to fix it. It is time for the people to realize that we have gone through a coup attempt. Now there is only one way to prove if the coup was a failure or a success. We will find out in Nov. 2024.
Al DePaoli
Woburn
