Spotlight On America: The Red/Green Axis

and um i know you guys over at fear have had a lot of stuff being posted up there on on what's going on and the big thing that is under attack is this birthright citizenship and um i'm just going to try to put my notes here together because i also have this underneath for the tuition see that's something separate but um i do another show called moms across america and one of the things we do is we read sections of the Constitution throughout the episodes.

So we just finished up with the last one, which was giving the right to young adults 18 to 20 the right to vote.

At one point, it was 21.

So all of this just helps me remember what I learned of the Constitution when they actually still taught it in class.

which made me go back and reread things just to make sure I understood everything correctly.

And everyone is saying in these various court rulings, and the latest one, hold this open, with my constitution here, it's one of eight copies in my desk.

I'm serious.

I've got about, these are just some of them.

And this particular one goes back to 1976.

This is the first one I ever got from my high school social studies teacher.

I'm looking for the article about this one judge that just recently made a ruling which really ticked me off.

Here it is.

This is it.

This was up on ballotaccess.org. And it just recently, a little over a week ago, U.S. District Court Judge David Liebowitz, who is a Biden appointee, ruled the U.S. Constitution does not permit Congress to pass laws on voter qualifications.

Instead, he wrote, only states may do so.

And he states Article I of the original U.S. Constitution.

I don't know if he read the Constitution.

I don't think he did before he made that ruling.

Because Article IV simply states that time, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislator thereof.

But the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations except as to the places of choosing senators.

Basically, Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution says, yes, Congress can look at what the state is doing and say, no, we need to pass a law on the issues we have.

It's a matter of checking balances between the state and the federal government.

Yeah, I agree.

And I think the Constitution makes it pretty clear that the states, not the federal government, are in charge of voter qualifications and regulations within their respective states.

Because this ruling was in regards to citizenship verification, right, when voting? Yes.