Constitutional voting rights
Constitutional voting rights
Evidently, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) doesn’t know find out how to learn as he appears to suppose and presently has mentioned that voting rights aren’t a federal situation because it ought to “be left to the states” to determine who can and may’t train their constitutional proper to vote.
I wish to remind him that the fifteenth Modification states that “The correct of residents of america to vote shall not be denied or abridged by america or by any State on account of race, coloration or earlier situation of servitude” and the nineteenth Modification states that “the fitting of residents to vote shall not be denied or abridged by america or by any State on account of intercourse.”
It’s completely clear that the problem of voting rights is each a federal and states situation. Within the occasion states don’t shield all residents proper to vote, the federal authorities is constitutionally commanded to take action.
Lawrence Emery
Kailua-Kona
Save lives – stop collateral harm from navy operations
A short article in West Hawaii At this time on Jan. 28 famous that the Secretary of Protection, Lloyd J. Austin, ordered the navy to step up efforts to stop civilian hurt. Whereas that could be a meritorious motion, it sadly appears to fall properly wanting addressing the huge collateral harm accomplished to U.S. residents and the aina from navy operations in our personal nation. These points also needs to be included within the navy evaluate.
Hawaii is not any stranger to such threat from navy operations. The Pink Hill gasoline leakage into potable floor water is a present living proof. Offshore disposal of poisonous waste in rusting barrels, unexploded ordnance at Waikoloa, and depleted uranium with different toxins at Pohakuloa Coaching Space (PTA) are just a few examples of harm already prompted and of these but to come back. Reparations are one of many points thought-about to resolve guilt or justify iniquitous actions however it will be so significantly better to keep away from the tragedy now than to argue fee later.
The usual follow of the navy as acknowledged at PTA has been to low cost the issues by claiming the dangers are minimal or by not conducting complete evaluations. There must be no threat in any respect. Easy cleanup after coaching operations, modernizing, and addressing the hidden risks of waste disposal will go a good distance in eradicating residents from hurt’s means. We should hope that the civilian and navy officers ordered to organize an motion plan for the Protection Secretary in addition to our elected federal representatives will specific concern for our personal residents.
Michael Reimer, Ph.D.
Denver, Colorado
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