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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Letters to the Editor

Supreme Court should pay more attention to basic rights

Police officers clear people from the sidewalk in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on June 29 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty)

Recently I read that the Senate decided to look into the ethics of members of the Supreme Court. As pleased as I was at this news, I still have serious questions about the recent decisions of the court regarding basic human rights.   

As a retired professor of world religions and philosophy, the issue of basic human rights was ever-present. I recall among other sources on my desk was a pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment among other things states: “…No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States…”.   

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