Reposted by Joseph Mead
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE
That means the case cannot be brought again 
Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law
More to follow!
![The Senator from Indiana r r. HENDRICKS] yesterday, I think, assailed this proposition as one calculated to degrade the great right of American citizenship, a right which he seemed to think should be held exclusively to the use and behoof of the nobler and loftier races of the world. It degrades, does it, sir, the character of American citizenship to admit all men to it who are born and reared upon American soil? Mr. President, I dissent from that idea altogether, and I was surprised to hear it fall from the lips of the Senator from Indiana, of all men in the world. I thought he was a Democrat. I thought he boasted himself the champion of equal rights. I thought that was the bread and the meat and the drink of his political creed. I did not think lie belonged to that class of nobility that measure their exaltation by the number of negroes they have under their heels. I did not suppose he felt it necessary to stand upon the necks of human beings in order to secure his patent of nobility; and I was surprised to hear this sentiment fall from his lips. I differ from it so widely and so radically as this, that I say there is no one proposition in the proposed amendment, and nothing in the Constitution as it stands, which will do so much to elevate the character and the dignity of American citizenship as that simple proposition. Nay, sir, I go further, and I tell you you will never have occasion to boast but you will always have occasion to blush for American citizenship until the time shall come when you can say to all the world that American institutions do not raise a man that is not worthy to be an American citizen and is not clothed with its panoply. I will vote for this proposition, and I shall not fear that American citizenship will be degraded by incorporating this clause in the Constitution](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w45g2ajbacksyxyh4w5xqczq/bafkreib2o2mt7v3fxwpsyonqsfhcodoacfp3xbv7is3gddwdha3rlw2vw4)
