They have been after the 14th Amendment because it is the foundation of BROWN V BOARD.
And BROWN V BOARD is the foundation of all the progress this country has made since 1954.
From The Atlantic:
Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
By Adam Serwer
Last July, while on his way to his job as a security guard at a cannabis farm in California, George Retes was tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and arrested by federal agents conducting an immigration raid. The agents ignored the license plate on Retes’s car and the sticker on his windshield, both of which identified him as a U.S. Army veteran, and did not even bother to determine whether he was a citizen before strip-searching him and locking him up in a cell. Retes was detained overnight without any opportunity to call a lawyer or his family.
“No one deserves to be treated like this,” Retes told this magazine after his release. “To have no rights. It’s just crazy to think about—that they can just mask up and take someone off the street, no questions asked, and you’re just gone.”
Retes is one of an estimated 170 American citizens who have been detained by federal immigration agents as part of President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation campaign, according to ProPublica, which warns that the count is both incomplete and unofficial because the federal government is not documenting its own abuses of power. At least 20 of those citizens, ProPublica found, had been detained overnight and incommunicado—a violation of their constitutional rights. When questioned about these detentions, Trump-administration officials claimed that the citizens had assaulted federal agents—an assertion proved false in many cases by video evidence or an inability by the government to produce serious charges reflecting the accusations. (One thrown sandwich hardly counts.)
Across the country, federal agents are flagrantly and casually disregarding Americans’ due-process rights. And they have been remarkably forthright about how they choose their victims. As Gregory Bovino, a top Border Patrol commander, told a white reporter: Agents were arresting people based on “the particular characteristics of an individual—how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?”
In Memphis, Reggie Williams told ProPublica that he was instructed by federal agents to keep his ID on him going forward, as though Black residents of the city were emancipated slaves forced to carry freedom papers lest they be kidnapped and returned to bondage. Bovino said basically the same thing after federal agents assaulted a Somali American citizen and refused to free him for hours despite his offers to show them a photo of his passport on his phone: “One must carry immigration documents,” Bovino posted on X. In Chicago, Maria Greeley was zip-tied by federal agents coming off a double shift at the bar where she worked. She had her passport and showed it to them, and still they detained her because, she said, she did not “look like” a Greeley.
This is racial profiling. And the Supreme Court has declined to stop it.
In September, an emergency docket decision effectively permitted this racial profiling by lifting a court order preventing it. “The Government sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a lone concurrence. Although “apparent ethnicity alone” isn’t enough to detain someone, it can be a “relevant factor,” he continued. “Under this Court’s precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States.”
What this means in practice is that if you are not white, you cannot go certain places without the risk of being kidnapped by federal agents. That is not “common sense”; it is the nullification of the Constitution’s guarantee of equal rights under the law.
This decision is only one of the ways that the Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has been chipping away at the parts of the Constitution dedicated to ensuring equal citizenship to all through rulings on voting rights, immigration, and equal protection. It has done this even as it insists—while striking down affirmative action and school-integration programs—that the Constitution is “colorblind.”
The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race. And over the next year, the Court will face more cases that could further erode both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, pushing America back toward what some on the right believe is the true, Antebellum Constitution.
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments make up the Civil War and Reconstruction amendments. The Thirteenth abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime, but America needed to do more to prevent the resurgence of the slave-owning South’s caste-based society. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments enshrined in the Constitution principles of universal male suffrage, nondiscrimination, and nonracial (birthright) citizenship. Although imperfect—the vote for women was not included—they were a crucial first step toward ensuring that the rights conferred by American citizenship would remain inviolate no matter where you were, and no matter who you were.
After the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, the Supreme Court essentially voided the meaning of these amendments. The post-Reconstruction Court helped pave the way for Jim Crow, showering most of the rights reserved for the emancipated on corporations, allowing states to disenfranchise their Black populations through superficially “color-blind” means, and permitting racial discrimination by both government entities and private actors. The amendments were resurrected during the civil-rights movement, but they are now under assault for a second time by both the Court and an executive branch that is distorting or refusing to enforce antidiscrimination laws about housing, voting, and employment.
A faction of conservatives has never stopped this campaign. As soon as the Reconstruction amendments were passed, people argued that they were illegitimate, a betrayal of the original document—a “rape of the Constitution” as the columnist Frank Meyer wrote in 1964 about Brown v. Board of Education in National Review. In 1965, that magazine published a cover story arguing that the Voting Rights Act, by enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment, would effectively “repeal the Constitution to give the Negro the vote.” During the Reagan administration, a young attorney in the Justice Department named John Roberts fought to weaken the law. Originalism, the author Madiba K. Dennie points out, is a convenient vehicle for this project because it prioritizes interpretations from historical periods where women and Black people were excluded from the political process.
Candidly Tiff
@tify330
Replying to @tify330
El-Sayed’s red flags are valid, but comparing him to Platner is disrespectful. Platner was recruited from a video with no political experience, while El-Sayed has government experience and has run for office. One has a Nazi tattoo, and the other dances in videos to people’s chagrin. One is an alleged rapist, the other has not been accused of any wrong doing.
3:41 PM · Jul 10, 2026
https://x.com/tify330/status/2075606346976661680
The Lincoln Project
@ProjectLincoln
Democrats cannot let people forget that it was the Republicans who cut their healthcare. Millions are struggling or without insurance, and as Rick says on MSNOW, the GOP is to blame.
https://x.com/ProjectLincoln/status/2075324398056173736
Mueller, She Wrote
@muellershewrote.com
A Police Executive Research Forum report from 2014 showed that CBP officers were purposely placing themselves in front of moving vehicles, and then shooting at them. This isn’t something that can be reformed. Abolish ICE. http://www.npr.org/sections/the...
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com/post/3mqckrogtx22u
capitolhunters
@capitolhunters.bsky.social
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Politics is personal. Dan Moraff who recruited Platner and fed him rants about “the establishment”, was a child of extreme wealth who got canceled for sexual misconduct. Platner was his revenge, his way back in power. You have to see: Platner’s campaign was about intra-elite resentments. 1/
capitolhunters
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It matters that Moraff’s grandfather founded Toys R Us. Platner’s campaign, like much of our “populist” movement, was people of eye-watering generational wealth. It’s not about helping the poors. It’s resentful elites who thought they deserved more, punching at the “center” who denied them. 2/
capitolhunters
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The dirtbag left are elites resenting successful strivers. PodBro Jon Lovett: “perfect candidates off the harvard law conveyor belt..highly disciplined, all boxes checked..” Matt Stoller: “rule following perfect resume ladder climbing Harvard law grads..lizard people creeps” Petulant babies. 3/
8:31 AM · Jul 10, 2026
capitolhunters
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These people don’t want to help the working classes. They want to throw their plate on the floor and bang their silver spoons and yell at Mommy. That’s what the Platner campaign was about for them. Sticking it to Mommy.
We need a progressive movement focused on bringing progress. 4/
8:31 AM · Jul 10, 2026
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Small correction! Turns out Dan Moraff’s family padded grandpa Sy Ginsburg’s resume in his obit, calling him the first president of Toys R Us. Turns out Sy was ALSO a nepo baby: he married the daughter of the founder of a toy retailer that merged with Toys R Us, and was brought into the business. 5/
capitolhunters
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Grandpa Sy Ginsburg, following the long tradition of US generational wealth and privilege, dabbled in hobbies and is best known as a follower of guru George Ivanovich Gurdjieff. He founded the Florida Gurdjieff Society and wrote about his teachings. No “working class” here 6/
https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3mqcrxk35uk25
Justin Slaughter
Paradigm
@JBSDC
I’ll have more thoughts on Platnerdammerung and its appalling end later, but I think the macro political significance of it is everyone realizing he was part of a coherent and focused faction that is oriented not at beating the GOP but taking control of the Democratic Party.
11:25 PM · Jul 7, 2026
https://x.com/JBSDC/status/2074636012890780061
Jamesetta Williams 💕
@jamesetta_w
I think that this is the most important takeaway from the Platner fiasco. There is a small but loud, influential and well organized faction of the left that cares more about beating other Democrats than Republicans.
More often than not, they coalesce around relatively inexperienced people who struggle to appeal to the working class as they claim.
https://x.com/jamesetta_w/status/2075199371017064587
Ashley Etienne
@AshleyEtienne09
What was lost in the debate about the Dem autopsy was where the money went. $8b spent across the ecosystem, yet only 1% was invested in Black voters. Appalling! Read my oped in Essence Magazine, “The Party We Built, the Bill Has Come Due.” I layout what we should demand f/Party.
https://x.com/AshleyEtienne09/status/2075323754020749357
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Brother Legend
@BigBroLGND
Let a white girl go missing and the last person to see her was 3 black men that she had an argument with.. and the men got her phone.. texts were deleted… and she wind up dead.. You think the police would find “no foul play”?
https://x.com/BigBroLGND/status/2075383843440197663
The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
turns out that Platner had essentially run out of money the way Janet Mills previously had, just as Susan Collins and the vast GOP Propaganda Machine was about mollywhop him in an avalanche of negative ads
had he stayed in, he’d have been in no position to push back against it
4:01 AM · Jul 10, 2026
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2075430216198201859
Marco Foster
@MarcoFoster_
DL Hughley: “That’s what I have to say to America: Aren’t you tired? Aren’t you tired of being embarrassed? Aren’t you tired of things you once believed in being eroded? It’s exhausting that somebody cares more about a game than your life. Or more about a ballroom than your living room. When America is tired enough, I suspect things will be different”
https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/2075370816389226873
Author Myron J. Clifton
@deardean22.bsky.social
The entire Grayham planter debacle was an attempted coup of the Democratic Party.
Leftists/DSA/Justice Dems, Bernard.. and those “democratic consultants” tried it..
And they’ll try again in 2028
https://bsky.app/profile/deardean22.bsky.social/post/3mqbf3ea5tk2p
From North Carolina:
NBC News
@NBCNews
The staffing change in the state auditor’s office comes after reporting revealed the operative, Dallas Woodhouse, was asking county officials to change their early voting plans.
https://x.com/NBCNews/status/2074881206341013965
Josh Stein
@JoshStein_
Every lawful voter deserves to have his or her voice heard. Yet under Auditor Boliek’s watch, the State Board of Elections has been directing counties to eliminate Sunday voting and remove early voting from college campuses including the country’s largest HBCU. It’s cynical politics and it’s wrong. To “reassign” the former Executive Director of the NC Republican Party is too little too late. The administration of our elections should have been free from partisan influence from the beginning and should remain so.
https://x.com/JoshStein_/status/2075292029043515685
About that ICE Murder in Texas
Karthik
@KarthikForTexas
They interviewed all the three witnesses separately, and they all say the same thing.
They did not ram the car; ICE agents fired at them, and then mocked Mr. Salgado as he lay there dying.
https://x.com/KarthikForTexas/status/2075456294870499414
Rep. Mike Levin
House Democrats
@RepMikeLevin
Trump is literally walking all over your tax dollars.
For decades, every president since Truman has used the walkway between the White House residence and the Oval Office without issue. Trump decided it wasn’t good enough for him.
He said he would pay to retile it himself. Suprise, surprise, it was another shameless lie.
Internal budget documents show you, the American taxpayers, paid $689,232 for it.
And where is he getting the money? From our national parks.
Our parks are already short $23 billion in repairs, and more than 900 projects have lost their funding. Yellowstone lost a project to stop roof leaks. Acadia lost its free shuttle. A Colorado park lost the money to fix a guardrail.
But Trump found money to pave the ground he personally walks on with special granite.
Trump is forcing America’s national parks to slash budgets, cancel badly needed repairs, and lay off workers. He takes the money those parks actually earn – nearly $100 million in visitor fees – and has been funneling it into his own personal projects, including paving the very ground he walks on with special granite.
And it’s not just park fees. Your tax dollars are in that pot too. Taxpayer funding for projects in our nation’s capital surged by 92% over the last year.
Trump seems to think your tax money is his money. He thinks he is entitled to raid national parks, cancel repairs, lay off workers, and use public funds to redecorate the place where he lives and works.
The level of greed is just disgusting.
the-independent.com/news/world/ame…
https://x.com/RepMikeLevin/status/2075326846707839146
ICYMI
GRIM put out tweets basically saying that Platner’s accuser ‘ asked for it’
After being ratioed to hell for it:
Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
The reaction from establishment Democratic operatives to the simple act of reporting news about a story of major consequence is to engage in the most vile name calling. This stuff will not work, people see through it. The party leadership is feeling extremely good this week after suffering defeat after defeat at the ballot box, but this feeling of theirs will be short lived because the structural causes of their decline haven’t changed.
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2075388259140575461
Ari Drennen
@AriDrennen
I’m just some trans lady with a substack in Seattle. Hardly the Democratic establishment. But I don’t need a fancy office in Washington DC to know you’re a washed-up loser drooling over a drunk rapist war criminal because you feel like one of the big boys when he pats your back
https://x.com/AriDrennen/status/2075400881038864767
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Marc E. Elias
@marceelias
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections.
https://x.com/marceelias/status/2075374181361877440
Norman Ornstein
@NormOrnstein
Unleashed by the partisan hacks on the Supreme Court, Trump is moving actively to dismantle every protection for free and fair elections
https://x.com/NormOrnstein/status/2075409679782457354
Ferol Humphrey
@ferolhumphrey
Replying to @NormOrnstein
He’s very determined. I watch people all around me just complacently assume that this is going to be business as usual, but we are heading straight for a military coups d’etat. He’s cleared out the military of mostly every on top but loyalists. What remains but for him to just surround the White House with his military people and refuse to leave? We’re committing war crimes now and we don’t apparently care.
5:10 AM · Jul 10, 2026
https://x.com/ferolhumphrey/status/2075447536991522822
UH HUH
UH HUH
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
UPDATE—ICE refuses to release body of man shot in Houston to his family.
Agents stripped him of any form of ID after they shot him—then classified him as “John Doe.” ICE is demanding family submit biometric info to confirm identity.
“He deserves a proper funeral,” said lawyer. Lawyer interview statement starts at 30 seconds into video clip. “They haven’t made it easy—they have made it very, very difficult.”
“We are demanding the release of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s body.”
Lidia Terrazas News doesn’t have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2075325450419663276
Acyn
@Acyn
Navarro: ….They killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti. And now Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
Sunshine: Do you know some of the names of Americans who’ve been killed by illegal immigrants? What are some of the names?
Navarro: What are the names of people that have been killed by U.S. Citizens?
Sunshine: How is that relevant to this?
Navarro: Well, you want to start talking about people who’ve been killed. Then let’s start talking about people who’ve been killed in this country
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2075414539781476542
Aaron David Miller
@aarondmiller2
Terrific reporting @laurnorman Clearly Iranians had better lawyers than US. At same time, regardless of what para 5 says, Iran is determined to impose new rules of road over Straits. It’s not negotiating tactic; it’s now a foundational requirement.
https://x.com/aarondmiller2/status/2075334750592495692
Dominique Devereaux’s Son
@wondermann5
To the Joy Reids and other far left cronies talking mess…
Imagine if you live in a state, where you have to drive 30 miles to a job because that’s the only job you can get that will pay the bills and keep a roof over your head.
Also, the rent is too high to move 30 miles closer to your job, so you have to spend tons of money on gas going back-and-forth.
If you have a brown child, you have to worry about them going outside because ICE might take them, and if you have a black child, they may get shot trying to buy some candy at the convenience store.
So, when I am choosing a candidate in my state, I’m not thinking about what’s happening 7000 miles away or AIPAC, I’m thinking about what’s happening in my front yard.
2:56 AM · Jul 10, 2026
https://x.com/wondermann5/status/2075413949672231000
Motor City Liberal returns
@MotorCityLib
The reason leftists are getting worried(scared) about the stink of the uncommitted getting stuck to @AbdulElSayed/ Dr. Nick is that there are a lot of voters in Detroit who rightfully blame that movement for tipping Michigan back to the Orange Dummy. And payback is an MFer.
3:41 AM · Jul 10, 2026
https://x.com/MotorCityLib/status/2075425209000038643
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊