A Massachusetts state legislator wants to make unequal outcomes by race and other categories a violation of the state constitution that would prompt action by the state government.
The proposed constitutional amendment would add sexual orientation to the currently protected classes of sex, race, color, creed, and national origin and add a sentence after that stating: "Persistent unequal outcomes among such categories shall constitute inequality under the law and shall thereby be unconstitutional."
It didn't pass in the last Congress and no one voted for it when it came up for a vote in the U.S. Senate, but the Green New Deal is back.
U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is once again the lead sponsor for it in the U.S. Senate, while self-described democratic socialist U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is its lead sponsor in the U.S. House of Representatives.
