Ep. 1804 - We Investigated The INSANE Loophole That Lets Killers Walk Free

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Well, Supreme Court just issued the ruling on birthright citizenship that we all expected. This is a decision that could have been a historic victory for this country if Republicans were anywhere near as effective and ruthless as the left. When it comes to selecting Supreme Court justices, Democrats pick judges who return victories for their side in every case without exception. On the other hand, Republicans pick judges who are preoccupied with preserving the image of the court as non-partisan. Even though Democrats don't remotely care, they're going to pack the Supreme Court and destroy the judicial branch the next chance they get. With a handful of notable exceptions, particularly Dobbs, the allegedly conservative justices on the court have proven to be unreliable and far too timid. On this issue, that's especially disgraceful. It's impossible to overstate this. Today's ruling will directly lead to tens of millions more foreigners flooding into this country, most of whom will have multiple children who will be entitled to a slice of your paycheck. Most of them will not even attempt to assimilate, which is why large portions of California now resemble Mexico, why 30% of New Yorkers can't speak English, why Somalis run entire neighborhoods in Minneapolis. None of this is lawful. The 14th Amendment states that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. Now, during debates on the amendment in the Senate in May of 1866, Senator Lyman Trumbull declared that, the provision is that all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens. That means subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof, what do we mean by subject to the jurisdiction of the United States not owing allegiance to anybody else? That is what it means.
Meanwhile, Senator Jacob Howard, a framer of the amendment, stated that he concurred entirely with Trumbull.
He added that the 14th Amendment would not include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States. Very clearly, as Michael Annen has pointed out, Howard was listing three categories of people who would not be covered by the amendment, including foreigners and aliens. No sane person alive at the time would have ever contemplated the idea that if a Chinese woman flew into Miami while nine months pregnant and then gave birth to a child, then that child must automatically become a United States citizen. They certainly would have contemplated the idea that tens of millions of Mexicans and Haitians in Guatemala could colonize entire states simply by invading the country and having a very large number of children. That's not what they had in mind, obviously, but that's exactly what has transpired. The conservatives on the Supreme Court, given a once in a lifetime opportunity to lawfully preserve the future existence of the United States of America, decided instead at least one of the alleged conservatives, Amy Coney Barrett, decided to protect her own image as non-partisan.
I mean, catastrophic does not begin to describe this ruling. It's yet another way in which our laws are being bastardized and distorted beyond recognition as a way of transforming this country into something unrecognizable.
But rather than generally lamenting this horrible decision, this catastrophic decision, we will go through the decision piece by piece and dismantle it, and talk about also where we can go from here. I mean, there are some things we can do in light of this moment to at least mitigate the damage. And we're going to get into all of that. We're going to talk about all of that in great detail tomorrow. So stay tuned for that.
Today though, we're going to talk about another way, also disastrous, that the legal system has been manipulated in this country. And this is a separate topic, but at the same time, as you'll see, it is related in more ways than you might think. And maybe the most egregious example of what I'm talking about, which often flies under the radar, it isn't discussed very much, concerns the rise of the so-called insanity defense. Now, if you ask the experts, they'll tell you that the insanity defense is rarely invoked. And they'll claim that in the vast majority of cases, the insanity defense is unsuccessful. And even when the insanity defense works, you're told the perpetrators don't get off easy. They supposedly have to endure a very unpleasant stint in a mental hospital, where they'll probably spend the rest of their lives. And you're just supposed to sort of take their word for all of this. Now, all of these claims are false, as we'll discuss at length in a moment. In reality, the insanity defense is one of the most overused and most effective legal defenses that criminals can employ. But before we get into that data, and what kind of brings all this up, is a case that I want to highlight, which has to be one of the most disturbing examples of this issue. So in August of 2021, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, a woman named Precious Bland, that's her name, drowned her 15-month-old daughter in a bathtub killing her, then stabbed her husband in the head and neck when he tried to intervene. And then she also stabbed her teenage daughter for good measure. It's one of the most gruesome crimes that is imaginable. But Precious Bland was just a few days ago, this happened late last week, found not guilty by reason of insanity. And she will not spend a single day in a mental institution. She is a free woman after she just murdered her 15-month-old child.