Rep. Troy Nehls torches Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and explains the Fourteenth Amendment's intentions and origins to expand civil rights.
REP. TROY NEHLS:
We need to send him back to middle school, because if you look at the 14th Amendment, there are five sections in Section Four. It talks a little bit about public debt. Obviously, the debt we had, we were going through a very difficult time in our country with the Civil War and then reconstruction. So really, the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments really dealt with civil rights. But there was a small section in there that dealt with public debt.
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 18: U.S. Sen. John Fetterman speaks as Sen. Bernie Sanders , Sen. Ed Markey , Sen. Peter Welch and Sen. Jeff Merkley listen during a news conference on debt limit at the U.S. Capitol on May 18, 2023 in Washington, DC. A group of Senate Democrats have sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to invoke the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to avoid a debt default if he can’t reach to a deal with Republicans.
Fetterman faced scrutiny after he claimed that the"whole reason" for the 14th Amendment — best known for its extension of citizenship to former slaves and guaranteeing"equal protection of the laws" — was to assist with debt negotiations.to use the 14th Amendment to avoid a default on the nation’s debt — a move that legal experts have repeatedly said would be unlikely to withstand judicial scrutiny.
"The entire GOP debt ceiling negotiation is a sad charade, and it’s exactly what’s wrong with Washington. We’re playing with fire and the livelihoods of millions just for the GOP to try and turn the screws on hungry Americans," Fetterman wrote Thursday in a tweet."This is the whole reason why the 14th Amendment exists, and we need to be prepared to use it. We cannot let these reckless Republicans hold the economy hostage.
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