Topic: 9th Amendment

The Supreme Court's border ruling is challenged using the 9th and 10th Amendments, which reserve powers to the states and the people when the federal government fails its duty. Because the federal government is perceived as facilitating human trafficking and lawlessness, the state of Texas is argued to have a natural right to defend its territory. This legal theory posits that federal authority is forfeited when it becomes destructive to the security of the people.

Constitutional attorney Chrisanne Hall explains that Justice Alito's draft opinion correctly identifies that abortion is not a constitutionally protected right. She argues that the 14th Amendment was improperly used in the original Roe decision to create a right that has no historical or cultural basis in American law. Hall asserts that the issue belongs solely to the states.