Ernie Chambers

Ernest " Ernie " W. Chambers ( * July 10, 1937 in Omaha ) is an American politician. He was, until the end of his tenure in 2008 the longest-serving Member of the Parliament of the State of Nebraska, the Nebraska Legislature.

The African American Chambers lived all his life in his hometown of Omaha. He attended Omaha Central High School and then the Creighton University School of Law. Already during disturbances of black youth in 1966, he negotiated with the political elite. He was strongly influenced by the Oscar-nominated 1968 documentary A Time for Burning by William C. Jersey.

The non-party, the civil rights movement related senator belonged to the Nebraska Legislature since 1970 uninterruptedly. As a left-wing politician he is also wearing on formal occasions jeans and T- shirt and so gets more attention than his colleagues in a suit and tie. By limiting the number of terms that a new regulation in 2008, he retired from the parliament from. In 2012 he was re-elected for a term of office break

He was instrumental in the regulations to ban corporal punishment in schools and to allow women to get the same pension rights as men. He is also a staunch opponent of the death penalty and tried this several times to ban by a bill.

In September 2007, Chambers filed a lawsuit against God. He accused them to spread fear and cause destruction and terror. Meaning of the action is to draw attention to the shortcomings of the American legal system in which anyone can sue anyone. On 17 October 2008, the court denied according to a report by the BBC, the indictment on the grounds that a service of the indictment to the accused was not possible.