{"id":2504,"date":"2024-06-22T00:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T07:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2024-06-22T00:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T07:49:02","slug":"with-the-supreme-courts-help-republicans-plan-to-resurrect-zombie-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/22\/with-the-supreme-courts-help-republicans-plan-to-resurrect-zombie-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"With the Supreme Court&#8217;s help, Republicans&#8217; plan to resurrect &#8220;zombie laws&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of zombie laws on the books that are likely to be used by conservative judicial activists in the next few years now that they&#8217;ve secured the right-wing Supreme Court of their dreams. For instance, there are existing, unenforced laws against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/laws\/PEN\/255.17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adultery<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/msa.maryland.gov\/msa\/mdmanual\/43const\/html\/00dec.html#:~:text=Art.%2037.%20That%20no%20religious%20test%20ought%20ever%20to%20be%20required%20as%20a%20qualification%20for%20any%20office%20of%20profit%20or%20trust%20in%20this%20State%2C%20other%20than%20a%20declaration%20of%20belief%20in%20the%20existence%20of%20God%3B%20nor%20shall%20the%20Legislature%20prescribe%20any%20other%20oath%20of%20office%20than%20the%20oath%20prescribed%20by%20this%20Constitution.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">atheism<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncja.org\/crimeandjusticenews\/sodomy-laws-still-on-books-in-12-states-draw-advocate-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0and sodomy<\/a>\u00a0which could easily be reanimated under some of the right&#8217;s current crusades.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deepblue.lib.umich.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/2027.42\/143831\/A_12%20Racially%20Restrictive%20Covenants%20in%20the%20US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discriminatory housing\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/deepblue.lib.umich.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/2027.42\/143831\/A_12%20Racially%20Restrictive%20Covenants%20in%20the%20US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covenants\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2024\/01\/24\/zombie-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outdated draconian drug laws<\/a>\u00a0could rise from the dead as well.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2024\/06\/21\/with-the-help-republicans-plan-to-resurrect-zombie-laws\/\">Salon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of zombie laws on the books that are likely to be used by conservative judicial activists in the next few years now that they&#8217;ve secured the right-wing Supreme Court of their dreams. For instance, there are existing, unenforced laws against\u00a0adultery,\u00a0atheism\u00a0and sodomy\u00a0which could easily be reanimated under some of the right&#8217;s current &#8230; <a title=\"With the Supreme Court&#8217;s help, Republicans&#8217; plan to resurrect &#8220;zombie laws&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/22\/with-the-supreme-courts-help-republicans-plan-to-resurrect-zombie-laws\/\" aria-label=\"More on With the Supreme Court&#8217;s help, Republicans&#8217; plan to resurrect &#8220;zombie laws&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,253,252,146,137],"class_list":["post-2504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2024-election","tag-anti-abortion","tag-anti-contraception","tag-comstock-act","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}