The Three Whisky Happy Hour: Emergency Edition, with John Eastman
Lots of people didn’t get the memo that the 3WHH is on hiatus for the month of July as we revamp the show’s format and lineup, but since I don’t want loyal listeners to go into painful withdrawals, I am offering this emergency stopgap edition, with just me and a frequently-requested guest, John Eastman.
If you go only by the mainstream media coverage of the Supreme Court, you might think that the 6 – 3 decision against President Trump’s executive order that attempted to curtail birthright citizenship under the emanations and penumbras of the 14th Amendment was a serious setback. But discerning readers recognize that on the core constitutional question of whether birthright citizenship is anchored in the 14th Amendment, the vote was actually 5 to 4, since Justice Kavanaugh agreed with the other three dissenters that the 14th Amendment does not establish birthright citizenship — he voted to strike down Trump’s executive order because he thought it failed on statutory grounds.
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