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Professor Toto "Trump's Hidden Plan to Fix Immigration & Win the 14th Amendment Battle" Professor Toto explains

FHMI-0691Professor Toto2025-01-23Toto Teaching

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"Trump's Hidden Plan to Fix Immigration & Win the 14th Amendment Battle" Professor Toto explains - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71v-S_G_4CQ Transcript: (00:01) so I want to answer the question why Donald Trump is dealing with the 14th Amendment why did he sign an executive order knowing that he doesn't have the power to override the 14th Amendment I think I know his agenda and I'd like to explain it to you right now I'm known as Professor Toto because I love to teach the beauty of the United States Constitution and the Republic and all the intricacies thereof let me explain to you the primary root problem of immigration in the United States of America is not at our Southern (00:45) border it's not at any of our borders the primary root problem is an asinine understanding of the 14th Amendment supposedly the 14th Amendment gives cart blanch freedom and citizenship to anyone born in the United States of America this is such an asinine understanding that many nations in the recent years have ended Birthright citizenship in other words Great Britain just a few years ago said no more we're done just because you're born here doesn't make you a citizen Australia New Zealand on and on and on in the last 20 to 30 years these nations (01:40) have ended I mean killed this problem in their Nation now the United States of America has allowed this to go on for too long someone has to end it it's time for a change that someone is Donald John Trump yes he knows that signing an executive order is not going to end the problem he's well aware but here's what it is going to do it's going to finally Force the United States Supreme Court to come to a decision on this delicate matter the 14th Amendment is not plain it's ambiguous so when you're watching CNN and they're having a heart attack over (02:29) how plain the for 14th Amendment is no it is not the reason that it's not is because of one line subject to the jurisdiction thereof that one Clause makes the 14th Amendment ambiguous what does ambiguous mean confusing unless you know the context it's just like the word of God the word of God can be confusing unless you know the context and the time times that it was written so let's go back to the time that the 14th amendment was written and I'm about to educate you so that you can educate your liberal friends the name that you need to (03:14) remember is Dread Scott Dread Scott was a slave he was uh from uh the slave state of Missouri where slavery was legal well his master brought him to Illinois and then they went to Wisconsin both states were free states and he got his freedom in those States well eventually his master moved back to Missouri and all of a sudden this free man is a slave all over again so what does he do he files a lawsuit called Dread Scott versus Sanford in that decision the Supreme Court said Scott did not have the right to bring (04:03) the lawsuit they didn't say that his merits were bad but he was not a citizen of the United States why because slaves were property of the United States they were under or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States but they were not citizens so this caused such an upheaval in our nation that suddenly the 14th amendment was created in response to that travesty of Justice now the 14th amendment was written with no one else in mind but the slaves Dread Scott they wanted to make sure that anyone subject to the (04:51) jurisdiction of the United States of America were slaves or I'm sorry were citizens at their birth voila the 14th Amendment absolutely nothing to do with children born here from immigrants or children born here accidentally or where you stop and drop you just stop in the United States drop your baby and we now have uh an immigration problem and then all of a sudden all of their family is now able to come over because they're citizens there is only one solution Donald Trump is forcing the issue he is going to make (05:31) this go to the Supreme Court now what will happen at the Supreme Court I'm glad you ask the Supreme Court is currently resided over by very conservative judges many of them are originalist what is an originalist judge an originalist judge believes like I believe that we do not interpret the Constitution in the modern times in the modern language but rather we search the intent of the law we go back to that moment when the law was written we discover what was in the minds of the jurist When It Was Written in the (06:16) lawmakers how and what was the intent and Friends those originalist judges when they see the intent of the 14th Amendment it will be considered unconstitutional Donald Trump will win with the 14th Amendment watch he knows what he's doing thank you have a great day

Summary

In this commentary, Professor Toto explains why he believes Donald Trump issued an executive order concerning birthright citizenship despite lacking the power to amend the Constitution directly. He argues that the order is intended to create litigation that will force the Supreme Court to interpret the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is presented as the key disputed language. The speaker connects the amendment to the aftermath of Dred Scott v. Sandford and argues that its original purpose was to guarantee citizenship to formerly enslaved people, not to establish unrestricted birthright citizenship for children of immigrants. He predicts that originalist Supreme Court justices will adopt this interpretation and uphold Trump’s position. The transcript contains no explicit or unmistakably identifiable Scripture passage, so no biblical references have been indexed.

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None — Constitutional and Political Commentary Concerning the Fourteenth Amendment, Birthright Citizenship, and Originalist Interpretation

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