[JoeSchem]

The Fourteenth Amendment's relative section states: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Now how does keeping a monument to the Ten Commandments 'make or enforce a law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States?' I'm sure that you have to go through YEARS of Constitutional Law before that connection makes sense!

[Happy2BMe]

Without going through years of constitutional law (which is often misinterpreted even today), what specific federal or state law did Judge Moore violate by remaining faithful to his oath to defend the Alabama and United States Constitutions?

Is it really, really all that deep? Mysterious? Technical?

[quidnunc]

JoeSchem wrote: The Fourteenth Amendment's relative section states: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Now how does keeping a monument to the Ten Commandments 'make or enforce a law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States?' I'm sure that you have to go through YEARS of Constitutional Law before that connection makes sense!

The Equal Protection clause of the 14th makes states — including their constitutions and other laws — subject to the provisions of the US Constitution.

[aristeides]

The claim is that the 14th Amendment's guarantee of "due process of law" applies some -- but not all -- of the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states, and that the Ten Commandments monument violates the guarantee of no establishment of religion.

What? You don't find that very persuasive? Neither do I.