Ernie Chambers

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Ernest "Ernie" W. Chambers (born July 10, 1937 in Omaha ) is an American politician . He was to the end of his term in 2008, the longest-serving MP in the US state of Nebraska , the Nebraska Legislature .

The African American Chambers has lived in his native Omaha all his life. He attended Omaha Central High School and then Creighton University School of Law . He negotiated with the political elite in 1966 when black youths rioted. He was heavily influenced by the 1968 Oscar nominated documentary A Time for Burning directed by William C. Jersey.

The non- party senator, who is close to the civil rights movement , has been a member of the Nebraska Legislature since 1970 without interruption. As a left-wing politician, he wears jeans and a T-shirt even on official occasions and thus receives more attention than his colleagues in suits and ties. Due to a new regulation limiting the number of terms of office, he left parliament in 2008. In 2012 he was re-elected after a break in office.

He was in charge of regulations to ban corporal punishment in schools and to give women the same pension rights as men. He is also a staunch opponent of the death penalty and tried several times, for the first time in 1973, to ban the death penalty through a bill. In May 2015, the Nebraska Parliament abolished the death penalty against the veto of Republican Governor Pete Ricketts . Due to a referendum, it was reintroduced on November 9, 2016.

In September 2007, Chambers filed a criminal complaint against God . He accused them of causing fear and causing destruction and terror. The purpose of the lawsuit is to point out the shortcomings of American law, in which anyone can sue anyone. On October 17, 2008, according to a report from the BBC, the court denied the indictment on the grounds that the indictment could not be served on the accused.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopher Burbach: Chambers' return to Lincoln follows strange campaign season . In: Omaha World-Herald , November 7th, 2012. Archived from the original on January 30th, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.omaha.com 
  2. ↑ Nebraska abolishes the death penalty. Zeit Online, May 28, 2015, accessed September 2, 2018 .
  3. ^ Nebraska and California voters decide to keep the death penalty. The Washington Post, November 9, 2018, accessed September 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Politician files criminal charges against God. Welt Online, September 18, 2007, accessed September 2, 2018 .
  5. ↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/schlusslicht/strafbeispiel2.html ( Memento from March 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Chambers, Ernie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chambers, Ernest W. (real name); Chambers, Ernie W. (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Omaha , Nebraska