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- Title
The senator's discriminatory intent Presenting probative legal evidence of unconstitutional verbal animus.
- Authors
Ana, Otto Santa
- Abstract
This is a critical analysis of the discourse of an elected state official in the years leading up to the passage of arguably racist legislation. It was submitted to a U.S. court of law to support the plaintiffs' claim that since the legislator publicly expressed racial bias against the groups of people affected by the law, then his legislation should be voided because the United States Constitution requires that laws treat citizens equally. The fact that critical discourse analytic findings have been entered into the U.S. courts leads to the question whether such analyses of public pronouncements May ever be permitted to serve as legally probative evidence.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LEGAL evidence; RACISM; RACISM laws; UNITED States. Constitution; CRITICAL analysis
- Publication
Language, Culture & Society (2543-3164), 2019, Vol 1, Issue 2, p168
- ISSN
2543-3164
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/lcs.00015.san