The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the 14th Amendment. Rand Paul Says They Got It Wrong.

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the 14th Amendment. Rand Paul Says They Got It Wrong.

July 2, 2026 · 2 min

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Rand Paul discusses the Supreme Court's recent ruling on birthright citizenship and its implications on the 14th Amendment.

Two days left on the 40% off sale. Subscribe before July 4th. The Supreme Court just struck down Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. Rand Paul shared the video breaking it down because the ruling matters and the history behind it matters even more. The 14th Amendment does not say what the Court just said it says. The people who drafted it would never have recognized this reading. Birthright citizenship was not written to be a loophole for anyone who could physically reach American soil before giving birth. It was written for a specific reason in a specific historical moment that the ruling completely ignores. Here is why the 14th Amendment actually exists. After the Civil War the Democrat Party had a terrorist arm called the Ku Klux Klan. They lynched black Americans. They lynched white Republicans who stood with them. A third of all lynchings in that era were of white people whose only crime was believing black Americans deserved to be free. The Democrats used poll taxes, absurd literacy tests asking how many windows were in the White House, and outright violence to keep black Americans from exercising the rights the Civil War had supposedly secured. The slaves…

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