Leo R. Chavez
speaker
1,192 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
Leo R. Chavez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Dec 2025 with 2.
Appearances
It's such a clearly written case, and I quote a lot of it in my book.
It's as if the judge...
was thinking ahead 100 years that there's gonna be some guy in the White House who wants to get rid of birthright citizenship, so I'm gonna write directly to this person.
And he writes in his case, this Supreme Court Justice writes, you know, it's really not whether the parents of someone born in the United States is allowed to be here.
His parents weren't allowed to be here.
They were Chinese who weren't allowed to be in America.
He said, but that doesn't matter.
That doesn't matter.
The 14th Amendment says, if you're born here, you're legally here.
And it's as if he's just saying, it doesn't matter if your parents are undocumented, parents are this.
If you're born here, you're a citizen.
And he says that so explicitly to ward off any challenge that...
that there have been challenges, and they were warded off pretty quickly.
I mean, they wanted to get rid of Japanese-American citizenship.
They wanted to get rid of more Chinese citizenship.
There's been challenges to birthright citizenship for 100 years, and none of it's stuck because the Constitution is so clear, and the 14th Amendment is so clear, and the cases that have been brought, like Wong Kim Mark case in 1898, was so clear that this is what the Constitution says, that it's going to be very hard.
But then people say, well, you know,
The Supreme Court's in Trump's back pocket, and it looks like it is, but we'll see if even they are willing to let one person change the Constitution of the United States, which is something that is so hard to change, because it takes a lot of work to change and create.
That's why we haven't had that many amendments to the Constitution.
It's just very difficult to do.
Showing 321–340 of 1,192 · page 17 of 60
← Previous
Next →