'QUITE THE TAKE': Twitter sounds off after Sen. John Fetterman says the 'whole reason' for 14th Amendment is to be used during debt negotiations
, considered by both scholars and ordinary Americans to be one of the most consequential assurances of civil liberties in U.S. history, encoded citizenship and due process for former slaves and is notably remembered, lauded, discussed and debated today for its landmark"equal protection" clause.
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is facing scrutiny after he claimed last week that the"whole reason" for the 14th Amendment was to assist with debt negotiations. "How about this: we will take you seriously as a constitutional scholar when you stop dressing like an 11 year-old at a skate park," former Trump adviser Stephen Miller wrote in a tweet.
"Oh, I see someone woke up wanting to take Keith Olbermann's title for Most Unserious Tweet [Constitution Category]. Except this man is an honest-to-darn U.S. Senator and not a former sports commentator. Far less funny and far more concerning," Amy Swearer, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said in a tweet.
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