Lydia Wheeler
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111 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 30 Jun
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So the whole debate centers on the 14th Amendment and exactly what it says.
which is all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court's majority decision, and he said that there was scant evidence that birthright citizenship is limited just to those people who are domiciled in the United States, which is exactly what the Trump administration basically tried to claim.
Roberts said that if Congress intended basically to limit
American citizenship just to children of people domiciled in the U.S., that they would have conveyed that, right?
And that nothing in the text of the 14th Amendment actually says that.
He said nowhere do you see the words father or lawful or temporary.
We saw dissents come in from Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Samuel Alito, and these are the Court's staunchest conservative members.
Justice Thomas said that the Court's historical analysis was inaccurate.
He said that the 14th Amendment was designed and understood to secure equal rights for newly freed Black slaves, and basically to ensure that they would never again be treated as second-class citizens.
And Justice Samuel Alito, he said that the court basically made a serious mistake with this decision.
He said that when the 14th Amendment was adopted, that it was really meant only for children who at birth owe an allegiance to the United States.
The court gave Trump full reign to fire whoever he wants from whatever agency that he wants except the Fed.
And, you know, Republicans then won big today with the court's decision to strike down limits on how much political parties can spend.
in coordination with their preferred political candidate.
And so really, the president is walking away here, I think, with a lot to gain and a lot of big wins from the court this term.
It said nothing.
It is a lot of money.
It is $166 billion.
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