That Time Sociopaths Tried to Inception a Fake 14th Amendment History into Legal Scholarship
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
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VR27 - This week on Vapid Response Wednesday we take a look at the liars, losers, frauds, and suckers angling for a federal bench who have worked up, developed, and sold the “other side” of the Fourteenth Amendment’s simple guarantee of birthright citizenship, which failed so badly in front of the Supreme Court last week. What kinds of people are out there trying to say that “anyone born or naturalized in the United States” doesn’t mean exactly what it says? We review and discuss how a Fox News talkshow host, a deeply unserious law professor, and the lawyer most responsible for the events of January 6th, 2021 all did their part to radically reshape the US Constitution and who will benefit from it going forward.
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Library of Congress (1868)
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“The Birthright Con,” Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times (April 1, 2026) (recommended reading!)
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“If SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship it will be at its own peril,” Breccan Thies, The Federalist (April 1, 2026)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:11.7 | This is VAPID Response Wednesday, and we are going to do an episode as though there |
| 0:17.0 | isn't nuclear war happening right now. |
| 0:19.1 | And if it happens in between when we recorded and when you hear it, then it'll be a fun relic in a video game. Like someone will have to go up to like a computer and they'll see a shiny thing and they'll be like, hey, check out this last episode. Before, you know, before it all fell. And then I can see. Yeah. So high to the future video gamer. I'm Tom. Is that over there is real life attorney? Matt Cameron, how are you doing? |
| 0:40.1 | I'm still riding the high from watching the people we're about to talk about lose before the Supreme Court last week. So I'm doing. Yeah. You know, in the wake of possibly our idiot president, new king, a country for absolutely no reason. |
| 0:57.3 | We're going to have something a little more gloaty, a little more fun, right? |
| 1:03.7 | We get to gloat in the positive news because they really did just get their asses kicked regarding birthright citizenship. |
| 1:05.1 | I think I'm going to be able to prove to you by the end of this that there's no amount of |
| 1:07.9 | birth wrongs that make a birthright. |
| 1:09.4 | These people are just birth wrong all the way around. These are the people responsible for this argument before the |
| 1:15.7 | Supreme Court. The people were about to feature today. This argument did not exist before. And they |
| 1:19.3 | create an argument so bad that this Supreme Court was like, they're like accidentally |
| 1:25.5 | owning the guy sour or whatever. |
| 1:29.6 | That's his name. |
| 1:30.6 | Sergeant General? |
| 1:33.4 | Attorney General? |
| 1:35.5 | He's not the Attorney General. |
| 1:36.9 | Oh, no, he's the Solicitor General. |
| 1:38.9 | Solicitor General. |
| 1:39.6 | That's it. |
| 1:39.8 | Surgeon General. |
| 1:42.5 | Dear God, I mean, it wouldn't be beyond this administration. |
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