14th amendment Archives

BOWMAN: Rescuing Our Law

December 28, 2025 Jim Bowman

Finally, a Fourteenth Amendment challenge makes it to our Supreme Court! This is in line with my long-held belief against these birthright citizenship rulings, which reward every lawbreaker whoseeks for her child to be born in “the land of plenty.” What should have been a Congress-enacted, time-restricted law, ensuring all the rights and freedoms of … Read more

Addressing Misconceptions

March 1, 2025 Jim Bowman

How many of us have tortured ourselves by reading the 14th Amendment in its entirety? I understand that, other than the first section, with its opening sentence, the remaining four sections amount to the irrelevancy of being unrelated from the amendment’s original purpose of granting citizenship to those who gained freedom after the Civil War. … Read more

What Happened To ABC’s ‘Layers’ of “Fact-Checkers”?

January 15, 2025 Skip

Who let this go through on something as basic as the US Constitution? “Can birthright citizenship be repealed? Breaking down Trump’s proposal.”It looks like another anti-Trump dig, poke, and scree. How dare you make these little children “stateless,” never mentioning their mothers for putting them in such legal jeopardy. And so much for “objective” reporting. … Read more

NH Election Law – State Supreme Court Motion to Reconsider

July 9, 2025September 23, 2024 Daniel Richard

The Appellant respectfully motions this Honorable Court under Supreme Court Rule 22. to reconsider its opinion on Count I, and Count III, Count IV, Count V, and Count VI for plain error. We want to thank Dan Richard for this update. Send your submissions to steve@granitegrok.com FEDERAL ISSUES The Appellant believes that the Court has … Read more

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Doubtful At Best

February 12, 2024 Jim Bowman

Americans have been very lax with their Blessings. In a country that offers so much, how is it that we take it all for granted without caring to ensure its operational integrity? No wonder that today, we are on the precipice of joining the rest of the third-world inhabitants!

Habeus Convictus

January 7, 2024 Ian Underwood

One of our oldest legal concepts is habeas corpus. (‘You must have the body.’) The basic idea is that you can’t detain someone indefinitely without showing cause why he should be detained. It gives the accused a right to challenge the accusations against him in court.

Colorado: Democrats Know This Isn’t Going Anywhere. So, What’s the Point?

December 24, 2023 Rob Roper

The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Donald Trump from that state’s Republican primary ballot has sparked quite a bit of outrage, as it should have.

Colorado: Y’all Still So Can’t Connect The Dots …

December 22, 2023 Ed Mosca

Maybe ask yourself this question … what wouldn’t people who support an obviously absurd court decision obviously intended to prevent Trump from being elected POTUS a third time do to prevent Trump from being elected POTUS a third time? The obvious answer … NOTHING. Of course, they would like us to keep believing that presidential … Read more

The Four State Supreme Court Judges Who Voted to Keep Trump off the Primary Ballot Need to be Impeached

December 20, 2023December 20, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The US Supreme Court has been asked to weigh in on a Colorado State Supreme Court ruling. The Colorado Court’s 4-3 decision prevents Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s upcoming primary ballot based on a very unjudicial assumption.

Constitutional Crimes

November 18, 2023 Op-Ed

NH Sec-o-State Dave Scanlen: No Reason to Keep Trump off NH Primary Ballot

September 16, 2023 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan was asked to investigate whether Donald Trump could be kept off the New Hampshire ballot for things he’d neither been tried nor convicted. It was a stupid ask, but Scanlan honored the request anyway. His response is … diplomatic.

Dems Abuse The 14th Amendment To Bar Trump From Ballots

September 18, 2023September 14, 2023 Op-Ed

As if the four previous prosecutorial cow pies that surround Donald J. Trump were not fetid enough, the U.S. Supreme Court soon will step into efforts to bar him from state ballots.

Wyoming’s Secretary of State Asks New Hampshire to Leave Trump on the Ballot!

September 10, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Two weeks ago, news broke that the New Hampshire Secretary of State was investigating whether Donald Trump should be removed from the NH primary Ballot next year.

To Raise or Not to Raise the Debt Ceiling

May 16, 2023May 15, 2023 Op-Ed

Let’s see if we can break down the debt ceiling issue. So once upon a time, well, back in 1917, America bought the Virgin Islands for about $25 million in gold, Babe Ruth, at 22, was pitching for Boston, and the United States entered WWI. There were also some significant changes going on in D.C.

“Much of what passes for critical race theory is in violation of existing federal and state laws”

July 1, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Judicial Watch has taken up the banner against Critical Race Theory under the presumption that it violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause to direct their focus (in this case) on what at least one district calls “affinity spaces.”

The ‘Apparently Women Aren’t People’ Act

March 19, 2021 Ian Underwood

I’m confused about the very existence of a bill called the Violence Against Women Act. I’m as much opposed to violence against women as I am to violence against anyone else, which is kind of the point.

Democrat Unity Means Let’s Boot Half of Republicans From Congress

December 16, 2020 Skip

The Electoral College has voted and everyone is now calling Dementia Joe the “President-Elect.” As opposed to what all the MSM has been calling him since the election (including Fox News)? NOW he can be called that and be mostly right.

President Trump Can Use Feds or Troops to Clear the Unruly Autonomous Zones At Will

June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The question regarding retaking so-called autonomous zones is not a matter of law; it is a question of optics. The 14th Amendment and 10 U.S. Code §253 empower a U.S. President to use force to secure individual rights and liberties where and when state or local governments abrogate that responsibility.

Undoing Due Process

August 7, 2019 Ian Underwood

The protections in the original Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government. So, the federal government couldn’t set up an official religion, or punish you for saying something, or disarm you, or search your home without a warrant, and so on. But the states could do those things.

Free the Nipple Loses Case at 8th Circuit – Equal Protection Clause Not Violated

August 20, 2019May 8, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Women who bared their breasts in Laconia lost a battle at the New Hampshire State Supreme Court earlier this year. It is a trend that has followed to the 8th circuit.