Let’s imagine a court brief describing the Adriana Smith case from the perspective of the citizen mother and non-citizen fetus. Brief for Petitioners In the matter of Adriana Smith, Deceased, by her family and estate Statement of Facts Adriana Smith, a thirty-year-old registered nurse and United States citizen, was declared brain dead in February 2025 while approximately nine weeks pregnant. Under Georgia’s abortion restrictions, Emory University Hospital maintained Smith on life support for the sole purpose of sustaining her pregnancy. Smith’s family objected to this continuation of medical intervention, but the hospital and State authorities determined that Georgia law required continuation until the fetus reached viability. ...
There Are No Unborn Americans
The court room was packed. The case was historic; deciding if Jefferson’s state-run birthing centers humming with artificial wombs were unconstitutional breaches of the 14th Amendment’s apportionment clause. “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State” Jefferson had leapt head-first into the tech behind artificial wombs as soon as it was viable. It was a gambit to overtake the State of Madison’s population in order to gain more seats in the House of Representatives. The State of Madison was currently suing the State of Jefferson and the case had finally made its way to the Supreme Court. Months of appeals in lower courts had prolonged the case, now in its 2nd year. ...
Reading the Constitution as a Modern Citizen
The Fundamentals The Founders did not think about your rights as something the Government gives you. How they thought about rights is expressed across debates, letters, and even our Declaration of Independence (not a legally binding document, but illuminating none-the-less). Most people today think the Government gives us our rights. It’s probably taught this way in many schools across the US. “The 1st Amendment gives you the right to free speech…” ...
The Structural Party
🏛️ The Structural Rights Party No Morals. Just Law. We are not here to tell you what’s right. We are here to tell you what’s allowed. 🔹 What We Believe 1. The Constitution is a Logic Engine It is not a moral document. It is not a list of virtues. It is a structural map of power: who gets to do what, and who doesn’t. ...
The Federal Power Behind Every Birth
Abortion, Citizenship, and the Constitution: Why State Abortion Bans May Violate Federal Authority Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), states have regained the authority to regulate or ban abortion. But a novel constitutional argument suggests that in doing so, states may be intruding into a domain reserved exclusively to the federal government: the creation of U.S. citizens. This post outlines a constitutional theory that reframes state-enforced birth as a form of compelled citizenship creation, raising serious questions about federal supremacy, naturalization, and the limits of state power under the U.S. Constitution. ...
And Subject To The Jurisdiction Thereof
If it is true that undocumented residents in the US are not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”, as the 14th Amendment states, then the same legal logic applies to a fetus in the United States. A fetus, by definition, is a stateless undocumented non-citizen resident and would not be subject to the jurisdiction thereof until after it is born, per the Constitution. It’s also worth noting that the basis for Plyler v Doe is that illegal immigrants are still “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”. If undocumented immigrants and fetuses are not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, then the basis for Plyler falls and any legal precedent for equal protection of rights for undocumented people also falls. ...
A Nation of Minorities
I grew up in Texas. I went to Pine Tree Elementary School, Forney Middle School, and graduated high school in Arlington. I remember being taught we are a nation of minorities in school, but conversations today seem to imply an incredible shift from this idea. I understand why, but I would like to dig into this shift while keeping the question “Are we a nation of minorities?” in mind. Separated by “race”, the census reports the current US demographics as such. ...
Planned Obsolescence
The first time anyone published the phrase ‘planned obsolescence’ was in the context of ending the Great Depression through government-enforced consumerism. In this paper, the author describes a system of legislative policies and law enforcement that would encourage enough spending by the public to get the American economy back on track. https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/72003
Song of the Service
SONG OF THE SERVICE I sing of the Service fast going to pot, And it seems no one cares a tittle or jot, Now, any jackass, when not eating grass, Can bray regulations and have them to pass. It looks much as if we were surely between A reformatory school and a place not so cool; And we look like fat little boys of fifteen ...
Abortion as Self-Defense vs Abortion as Healthcare
Current Texas law forces doctors to choose the rights of an undocumented non-citizen fetus over the right to life and self-defense of citizen mothers. Roe v Wade fell 5 years ago and it’s not coming back. The abortion as healthcare argument has failed and is actively getting women hurt and killed today. Instead, we should look for other rights that abortion falls under that have actual court precedents. The healthcare argument will not gain any traction over the next 4 years. ...