Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including The Megyn Kelly Show, Pod Save America. 3 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Alan DershowitzLawyer described as faculty adviser to Harvard Chabad
Dershowitz argues that the Court's remarks about legislation are only dictum until Congress actually passes a law and the Court rules on it.
“It's dictum until you get legislation. And then if the court strikes down the legislation as being inconsistent with the body of the 14th Amendment, then it's a holding”
The Megyn Kelly Show: Supreme Court BOMBSHELLS: Against Trump on Birthright Citizenship, WIN For Protecting Female Sports, with Mike Davis, Alan Dershowitz, and Kristen Waggoner | Ep. 1350 (Jun 30, 2026) · Listen from 45:36
Mike DavisFounder and president of the Article III Project and former law clerk to Justice Neil Gorsuch
Davis argues that five justices have constitutionalized birthright citizenship, so a statute cannot change it and only a constitutional amendment can.
“we already have five votes with the Chief Justice, Justice Barrett, and the three liberal justices saying that this is now constitutionalized under the 14th Amendment, so you can't change it by statute”
The Megyn Kelly Show: Supreme Court BOMBSHELLS: Against Trump on Birthright Citizenship, WIN For Protecting Female Sports, with Mike Davis, Alan Dershowitz, and Kristen Waggoner | Ep. 1350 (Jun 30, 2026) · Listen from 17:41
Heather Cox RichardsonAmerican historian and author of the Substack newsletter Letters from an American
Richardson calls the Fourteenth Amendment her favorite, noting that the Reconstruction Amendments were the first to give power to Congress.
“the 13th, 14th, and 15th are the First Amendments that give power to the Congress rather than taking it away”
Pod Save America: Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s 250th Celebrations (Jun 21, 2026) · Listen from 59:46
Podcasts
- The Megyn Kelly Show · 1 episode
- Pod Save America · 1 episode
Episodes
Supreme Court BOMBSHELLS: Against Trump on Birthright Citizenship, WIN For Protecting Female Sports, with Mike Davis, Alan Dershowitz, and Kristen Waggoner | Ep. 1350The Megyn Kelly Show · Jun 30, 2026 · 1 h 44 min
Megyn Kelly, Mike Davis and Alan Dershowitz debate the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling, then Kristen Waggoner and Madison Kenyon celebrate the decision upholding girls' sports bans.
Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s 250th CelebrationsPod Save America · Jun 21, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Historian Heather Cox Richardson and Alex Wagner discuss Trump's 250th-anniversary celebrations, his Washington building projects, patriotism, and JD Vance's blood-and-soil nationalism.