00:00The cupboard is now officially empty and the game is up. Having picked an illegal forever war with Iran and
00:09driven our national debt over $40 trillion, one quarter of which comes from this president alone,
00:18the Republicans are now officially barren of any new proposals or ideas to bring down the price of gasoline or
00:25diesel or groceries or housing or health care or to control the spiraling corruption and lawlessness of the administration.
00:33As a result, our friends on the Judiciary Committee are like hamsters on a wheel spinning in place with utterly
00:39spent and discredited ideas.
00:41The summer is over, but every day we are treated now to 24-7 summer reruns.
00:47Yesterday, we held a sixth hearing on the GOP's Defund the Police Sanctuary Jurisdiction Bill, a bill that already passed
00:54out of committee six months ago,
00:55but is so toxic, futile and counterproductive that even Speaker Johnson can't be convinced to bring it to the floor.
01:03But through the awesome power, I suppose, of magical thinking, our colleagues simply held another hearing as if they had
01:10not already passed the bill that the hearing was about.
01:13Today, our colleagues wish away the Supreme Court's recent 5-4 decision in Trump v. Barbara.
01:19And so here in Never Never Land, we are once again debating the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship,
01:26which even the Roberts Court could not disappear with its magic maga wand.
01:32In our Sisyphean effort to drag our friends back towards reality, let me recite the first sentence of the 14th
01:39Amendment.
01:40You know, some parts of the Constitution may be difficult and ambiguous, like due process or establishment of religion.
01:49But this sentence is perfectly clear.
01:52All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United
01:58States and of the state wherein they reside.
02:01This sentence overturned the Dred Scott decision and reflects our commitment to a republic in which the rights and privileges
02:08of citizenship are shared by everyone born or naturalized here,
02:12not just the people who fall within an officially sanctified racial or ethnic group.
02:17In 1898, 30 years after passage, the Supreme Court closed the door on the argument being advanced yet again by
02:24our colleagues in this outburst of constitutional amnesia and political nativism.
02:29In 1898, the court held in 1K Mark that the Citizenship Clause guaranteed the rights of all people born in
02:36the United States, including, yes, even the children of the reviled non-citizen Chinese immigrants.
02:42Despite the question of birthright citizenship being settled law for more than a century now,
02:48this lawless president tried to nullify that right by way of an imperious and totally unconstitutional executive order.
02:56In the aftermath, judges appointed by Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have repeatedly ruled
03:04that the order was unconstitutional and void.
03:07One of those judges, District Judge John Kunauer of the Western District of Washington State, a Ronald Reagan-appointed judge,
03:15did not mince words.
03:16He said, citizenship by birth is an unequivocal constitutional right.
03:21It is one of the precious principles that makes the United States the great nation that it is.
03:25The president cannot change, limit, or qualify this constitutional right by executive order.
03:30I can't remember a case that presented a question as clear as this.
03:35Despite the court's 6-3 ruling on Trump's first unlawful executive order, the incorrigible nativist in the White House simply
03:43cannot take no for an answer.
03:44On August 6th, he issued two new executive orders in another attempt to refuse citizenship to people deemed unworthy.
03:51One order restricts birthright citizenship for specific categories of people, including children born to adults with connections to foreign organizations
03:59or embassies, as well as anyone considered an alien enemy.
04:03It also restricts birthright citizenship to anyone whose parents are engaged in fraudulent activity to obtain citizenship.
04:11Stripping people of citizenship is a hallmark of authoritarianism.
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