one of the many infuriating things about this is that if the authors of the amendment wanted it to apply exclusively to the formerly enslaved they had the capacity to do so! they would have written it that way! they didn't!
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Sauer keeps saying the amendment was suppose to apply to "former slaves" but the actual text of the 14th amendment is "all persons born or naturalized in the united sates," i thought conservatives were big text guys
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Over and over and over again.
I also think we need to disqualify a good number of people for participating in an insurrection.
What a ridiculous argument!
They are simply dishonest, activist radicals.
They need to go.
Let’s start with age limits when the GOP is gone.
Then add 4 justices.
1. Ignored "well regulated militia" as a constraint
2. Decided a corporation is a person that is as good or better than actual human beings
3. Decided that money is speech; and that there should not be any restrictions or need for disclosure on that kind of speech
Stare Decisis doesn't work, ignore it. Textualism doesn't work - go to Originalism where we will selectively edit history to make it work.
The Federalist Society are complete FRAUDS
"Originalists" always claim to have figured out what the Framers intended but did the opposite of.
I mean, how were they going to do a background check and investigate your political views? Telepathy? Telegraph?
The US can’t even track which state their elected officials live in… I’m look at you Tommy Tuberville.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_international_border_vista
On "you can lead a horse to water" grounds, it doesn't matter how many undergrad history classes you take if you approach them with a temperamental predisposition to lie about history in pursuit of political power.
But then, my 6th grade teacher (public school, California) taught us that the Civil War wasn’t about slavery. My parents went wtf??? (States’ rights, of course.)
Bc I have a feeling - just given the recent history of this court - that they're going to need it
The Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to ALL black persons, including those who had previously been considered citizens.
The 14th Amendment overturned Scott. End of discussion.
#14thAmendment
This court is a political entity, full stop. Living permanently in the penumbras and emanations
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/supreme-court-case-library/united-states-v-wong-kim-ark-1898
He’s being politically correct and accurate.
They are a special class.
The 14th Amendment was expressly desinged to cover both free Blacks and immigrants
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-11/the-origin-of-birthright-citizenship-is-complicated-its-meaning-isn-t