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Well, that was quite a finish for this year's Supreme Court term, which, as usual, released the most controversial and consequential cases on the very last day of its sitting. This wrap-up episode—the first of a double-episode package for July 4 since we missed last week's regular episode—dwells a lot on the birthright citizenship case, with sharp disagreements among the 3WHH bartenders, but from there we move on to ponder the ambiguity of the "Humphrey's Straddle," and the significance of the ruling striking down one of the key pillars of government regulation of campaign financing—the so-called "coordination" rule.
We close out this first of our double-header with a celebration of America's new heroine, Sophie Cunningham, who is making us forget all about Sydney Sweeney.
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Everyone who were the intended beneficiaries of the 14th amendment are dead.
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Just because the door to a store is open doesn't entitle me to anything inside. If the store belonged to a justice, pretty sure they'd all agree. Yet....
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The meaning of the Constitution only changes when the words of the Constitution change.
Therefore, no interpretation of a passage of the Constitution which no one at the time of its writing or ratifying would have accepted can be correct.
Now, does anyone seriously think that anyone at the time of the writing and ratifying of the Fourteenth Amendment would have accepted the interpretation which currently governs?
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I love this podcast. Im having enormous difficulty signing onto Steve Haywards substack. Sigh