bm- PRESS RELEASE HARDER VERSION
This one is even more direct for radio, podcasts, activist outlets, and attention-grabbing email blasts.
**Ted Hayes Warns SCOTUS:
You Cannot Honor the 14th Amendment While Ignoring the Civil Rights Act of 1866**
Los Angeles, California — Ted Hayes has sent a formal warning to the Supreme Court of the United States: America cannot keep celebrating the language of the 14th Amendment while forgetting the remedial purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
In a package sent to Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the rest of the Court, Hayes argues that the original post-slavery intent of the 1866 Act has been obscured by what he calls constitutional drift. His message is simple: the law that arose from the suffering of the formerly enslaved must not be interpreted so loosely that its historical foundation disappears.
“This is not about disrespecting the Court,” Hayes said. “This is about confronting a national truth. If the Supreme Court has drifted from the original remedial purpose of the 1866 Act, then Black America and the American people have every right to say so.”
SHORT VERSION FOR EMAIL BODY OR MEDIA BLAST
Ted Hayes Sends Formal Notice to SCOTUS Over Civil Rights Act of 1866
Ted Hayes, longtime civil rights activist known as Mr. Citizen Patriot, has sent a formal letter, sworn affidavit, and Notice and Demand to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that the Court may have drifted from the original remedial purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment. Hayes says the issue is not only legal, but historical and moral, and calls on the nation to revisit the unfinished business of Reconstruction and federal citizenship.
SUBJECT LINES FOR BLACK MEDIA
- Ted Hayes Puts SCOTUS on Notice Over the Civil Rights Act of 1866
- Black Activist Challenges Supreme Court Drift from Reconstruction
- Ted Hayes to SCOTUS: Remember Why the 1866 Act Was Written
- Formal Notice Sent to Supreme Court Over Reconstruction-Era Citizenship
- Has SCOTUS Drifted from the Original Remedy of 1866?