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PRESS RELEASE
**Ted Hayes Sends Supreme Court a Constitutional Warning:
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 Has Been Betrayed by Drift**
Los Angeles, California — Ted Hayes, longtime civil rights activist and public figure known as “Mr. Citizen Patriot,” has sent a formal constitutional package to the Supreme Court of the United States, warning that the original remedial purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 has been obscured by generations of judicial drift.
Hayes argues that what Congress forged after slavery, the country has never fully executed—and what the 14th Amendment was meant to lock in, later interpretation may have loosened. His submission challenges the nation to confront a forbidden question: whether the Supreme Court itself helped carry the Civil Rights Act of 1866 away from its original foundation.
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Ted Hayes Sends Supreme Court Notice Over “Constitutional Drift”
Ted Hayes, longtime civil rights activist known as “Mr. Citizen Patriot,” has sent a formal letter, affidavit, and Notice & Demand to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the Court has drifted from the original remedial purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment. Hayes says the issue is not merely legal, but moral, historical, and national in consequence. His package specifically calls attention to the chain from Andrew Johnson’s veto to later judicial interpretation, and asks whether the original beneficiaries of Reconstruction-era citizenship have been lost in constitutional abstraction.