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Leader wants to repeal the amendment that gave freed slaves and their descendents american citizenship. senator coburn, meanwhile, claiming the lawmakers of 1868 never meant for the children of nonresidents to be citizens. he's entirely wrong. the 14th amendment was ratified in part to undo the supreme court's most infamous ruling, dredd scott, which denied citizenship to the freed slaves and to their descendents. in the debate before ratification, senator john konsz of california was asked, quote, is the child of the chinese immigrant a citizen? conness said, yes. the supreme court agreed, ru...

Simply after dredd scott to reverse that horrible decision, but it also came as a response to what were called the black codes, which are enacted in the south. and these referenced to disenfranchised blacks, and that analogy could be made in many ways to the illegal immigrants. but the supreme court itself in the case i mentioned earlier, it strongly suggested that their view was that the language of the 14th amendment did embrace the children of illegal aliens. what we did not want in this country is to face something like what germany has. germany has a great number of stateless people, part...

eight investigations of representatives. all eight just happened to be african-american. and the head of the independent body that refers the cases to the house ethics committee is porter goss. the bush cia director who approved the destruction of the torture videotapes. gene robinson joins us. day 106. the figure on the possible fines, $17,600,000,000. and a question about this. is this a rerun? tea time. the liberty leaders fife and drum duo split up because the fife player doesn't think the drummer is conservative enough. the drummer got pete bested. and sharron's new obtuse...

and we will talk to jason deparle about poverty in america and the economy. from the nation's capital, this is " washington journal." host: the supreme court ruled 5- 4 to allow corporations to spend as much as the want to support or oppose individual candidates. the ruling is likely to also allow labor unions to send unlimited funds. the justices kept in place, though, a century old ban on corporate donations directly to any one candidate. let us kickoff today's " washington journal" talking about the supreme court decision. the phone lines -- send us a tweet at c-spanwj or e-mail u...

i think he really likes it. >> i'm told he's come to terms to it. john edwards admits he fathered a child out of wedlock with rielle hunter. and he's off in haiti doing good. we've got the author of "game change" coming up next to tell us about edwards' strange odyssey. if you choose a sauce based only on the label, you might be missing something. with prego, it's all about the sauce. in a blind taste test, more people preferred prego over bertolli. the sweet and savory taste of prego. it's in there. because with national, i roll past the counter... and choose any car in the aisle....