Andrew Arthur
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109 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Apr
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And he, you know, explains that at the time that the 14th Amendment was passed and at the time that the Constitution itself was ratified, that the founders had cast off those, you know, feudalistic English principles that governed nationality and
in Britain and had actually surveyed the world to see what they did, how they treated nationality so that we could create a very unique American citizenship.
If you think about events, the biggest difference between the new United States and the old British empire
was the fact that we didn't have a king.
In the United States, the people were sovereign.
And therefore, you know, ideas that you are the liege to the king when born there, and thus you gain nationality, is a poor fit.
And that's really the point that the Justice Department was making in its briefs.
But yeah, I was surprised that Sauer didn't respond in that manner, because that is actually the point that the government made in its briefing.
Yeah, it absolutely is.
And here's sort of the good and the bad that comes along with having six conservative Supreme Court justices.
They really don't care about the practicality of the thing.
They care about the intents of the framers, the founders, the ratifiers of the 14th Amendment.
Keep in mind, this is the same Supreme Court that in McGirt versus Oklahoma found that 42% of
a state in the middle of the United States was actually Indian territory, and they did that in 2020.
So the practicalities of the thing don't really weigh that heavily in, except to the degree that there was a line of questioning about how the interpretation of the 14th Amendment
would change given technology and modern changes.
People don't come on wooden ships.
They don't come on steamships.
They could fly directly into the United States and give birth.
In fact, we've seen birth tourism rings that were
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