Legal AF by MeidasTouch - WTF?! TOP Trump Group Makes SICKENING MOVE Against Kamala

Episode Date: September 2, 2024

A leading MAGA Republican group of elected officials are BASICALLY CALLING KAMALA HARRIS A SLAVE, to argue she shouldn’t be able to run for president. Michael Popok reports in the National Federation of Republican Assemblies passing a resolution based on THE MOST REVILED CASE in Supreme Court history declaring that a freed slave has no constitutional rights that led to the Civil War, to declare that Kamala is not a “natural born” citizen to be allowed to be President of the United States. Try Mosh today and use LEGALAF to save 20% plus free shipping at https://moshlife.com/LEGALAF Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join the Legal AF Patreon: https://Patreon.com/LegalAF Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Michael Popak, Legal AF. Republican leaders have figured out what to do with the most reviled Supreme Court decision in our nation's history, establishing that Black Americans are not citizens of the United States and they are not given to any protections the federal government, a case we refer to as the Dred Scott decision. They're using it against Kamala Harris to argue that she doesn't have the right to run for the presidency because she's not, in their view, a natural born citizen because her parents weren't born here, although

she was. What are we talking about? I was wondering, what is the precedent that Republicans will cling to? What is it that they like? Found it. It's the one about slavery and how slaves don't have rights to argue without irony, apparently, that the first African American woman also from South, who was parentage, also from Southeast Asia, should not be the President of the United States.

There was no other reason for this National Federation of Republican Assemblies, the NFRA, in their new platform and their new resolution to cite to the Dred Scott decision. I will tell you, I've been doing this thing called law for the last 32 years. I've studied the Constitution backwards and forwards and have been something of a scholar of the United States Constitution since I left law school. The only time you're allowed to cite Dred Scott is when you're talking about what was an abomination of the United States Supreme Court and the most reviled decision among many ever issued, this case by Chief Justice Roger Taney.

And that would be Dred Scott. Unless you're talking about that, you're not allowed to bring up Dred Scott as part of your legal argument as to why somebody, especially somebody who is black, can't be the president of the United States. You're just not allowed to do that. Dred Scott is off the table, or should be, but not to the National Federation of Republican Assemblies. This group of all of those people that are in legislators and legislation houses throughout the country, and you're a Republican, that's your organization. And so they wanted to sort of, I don't know, I don't know who came up, I'm sure it was a white guy, who came up with the idea to cite the Dred Scott.

Now Dred Scott is a terrible, terrible case. I think there's two major cases that are equal in the shame brought on America and on the United States Supreme Court. One of them is Karamatsu, which involved putting into concentration camps Japanese American citizens during the hysteria of World War II. The other was Dred Scott. Dred Scott and his wife sued in Missouri because they moved to a free territory, having been slaves for citizenship. And this is a case after it went its way through the Missouri

state system. He then filed a new suit that made its way after 11 years to the United States Supreme Court in 1857. Why is that important? Because this case, Dred Scott, in which the Supreme Court said not only does Dred Scott and his wife and other newly freed slaves do not have any federal recognition or any rights, but it also moved this country one step closer to that thing called the Civil War. And it wasn't until the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th and 14th Amendment and the other post-Civil War issues or post-Civil War amendments to the Constitution that actually restored or gave to people like Dred Scott rights as citizens, as newly freed slaves,

and now black American citizens in our country. It wasn't until the reconstruction period and the set of reconstruction amendments. But for this white group to cite Dred Scott just shows how much of a tin ear they have and the optics of going after. Now they're not the only ones that they attacked. They also went after Nikki Haley and they went after Vivek, whatever his name is, who they also claimed could not run under this. Now they're under their interpretation. The older I get, the more I find myself wanting to be more intentional about the way I live,

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What does a natural born citizen mean? It's not defined in the Constitution, but the way it's always been interpreted is that if you are born here, if you are born here, there have been fights over birth before. John McCain was born on a military base, and I believe in the Philippines, but that was considered US territory, so he was natural born. But other people have been born in Canada and in other places, and they can't be naturalized. They have to be natural born here. But not their parents. They take it one step further and they say under the Dred Scott decision, which does

not deal with natural born citizenship for the presidency at all, deals with what I described. They argue that the parents of the baby born in this country also have to be from this country. You know who would be disqualified under that interpretation? A couple of presidents named George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, both of whose parents were born in England. Jefferson was born here. Washington was born here. But their parents weren't. So why don't we disqualify two of the greatest presidents in the United States history,

including one of our founding fathers, and you know, who's considered not arguably the greatest president of our lifetime of the United States history in George Washington. But they, history and facts and proper analysis don't matter to them. And the person that wrote Dred Scott into that resolution and cited it for no good reason other than they wanted to talk about a slave case in talking about Kamala Harris or anybody

who's black and brown, like Nikki Haley and Vivek or whatever his name was. And the fact that that got through a round of editing by other white racist MAGA within that organization, the NFRA, is just mind boggling. It just shows you what this election is really about. It's for the soul of America and for patriotism and what you stand for. Donald Trump is, we already know, is unprecedented, he's unserious, and he's the incredible shrinking former president. He's now down to about two foot

tall or lower and shrinking and before our very eyes and being ridiculed appropriately by the Harris Walls campaign for good, you know, for good reason. But look what his lackeys and proxies are doing in his name, calling out the most reviled case in United States Supreme Court history to use against Kamala Harris. How inappropriate, how racist, how disgusting, how unpatriotic. And the only way you can turn this page, this dark page, this dark chapter in American history led by MAGA and its cult leader Donald Trump is to turn the page on November the 5th and vote up and down the ballot.

Blue. Blue. And I don't just want Kamala Harris to get in. She's going to get in. She's going to be Madam President. But I want her to have long coattails and sweep into office all the Democrats and into the Senate and the House in large enough numbers that it crushes MAGA once and for all. And I want to restore a two-party system here where we're currently

one party short. In order to have a healthy two-party system, we only have two parties, right? We're not parliamentarians. We have two parties in this country. That's all we're left with. Winner take all. And you need to have a second party. And we're one party short. It's a democratic party and a cult. Now, I believe that if you sat most Republicans down, the vast majority of them are not MAGA. Whether you want to call them Country Club Republicans or just Goldwater Republicans, Reagan Republicans, they still exist. Then there's this thing called MAGA, this pick me thing,

this, this, um, aberrational thing, right? It's like alien, you know, you got the host and then you've got this monster that has resided within them. You gotta get the monster out, and you gotta crush it once and for all. And then you can have a healthy party that I can debate with on policy,

and maybe on certain aspects of values, but not on facts. And then you can have a coherent, you can have a coherent, viable constitutional republic in a two-party system. We need that. The Democrats need that too. We need a healthy party on the other side. We need to help them get healthy. And the way to do that is to stop and to pay them back for citing slavery cases as a reason

to take Kamala Harris off the ballot. And there's only one way in a binary way you can exercise your power. Sure, you can donate money, but you can just vote. It's free. Just takes your time and effort. Get registered. Make sure you satisfy all the requirements, including some new ridiculous stringent requirements, barriers to entry, and to suppress the vote in your state. Find out what that is. You gotta bring your birth certificate,

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