Nick Vaughn

Husband | Father | Hoosier | Lawyer | Author

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

At the end of a particularly thrilling and rollicking meeting in the Oval Office, Lindsey Graham turned to the room and said: “I’ve never had this much fun in my life.”

I cannot describe to you how much joy President Trump’s leadership and friendship brought to Lindsey. Meetings with Graham at the White House were filled with camaraderie, kinship and uproarious laughter.

As heartbreaking as his sudden passing is, I hope it will bring some measure of comfort to those who cherished him to know just how much he was living his dream every day. Very rarely in life do you get to be exactly where you want to be, when you want to be there, with who you want to be with, doing precisely what you want to do — that was every moment for Lindsey.

When President Trump won in Nov 2024, Lindsey was exultant. Elated. And determined. He couldn’t wait to spearhead work, as the Budget Chairman, on the reconciliation bill that would cement President Trump’s most important campaign promises. I’ll never forget the senate lunch, when a couple Senators were a tad off the program, and Lindsey — in his inimitable way — made sure everyone was onside by the time we left. It was a glorious thing to witness. He knew how to move a room.

Lindsey was a senator’s senator. The job was everything to him. Truly did he believe in the splendor of the office and the noble lineage behind it, of which he was the worthy heir.

He was a senator in the mold of those who fashioned the institution, someone who still had the ability, in a heated exchange, to use rhetorical power to change the course of events.

Which is why we will never forget his legendary Kavanaugh moment. We rarely think that we are out of time with our friends, so while there is a lot more I wish I could have said to Lindsey, I am glad that more than once I told him what that moment meant to the whole nation and why he was the only Senator who could have done it with such utter perfection.

Most importantly, I had the chance to tell him on many occasions what his friendship meant to me and to us all. There was never once a time he didn’t answer a phone call and lend whatever assistance was required. It was never a question with Lindsey. He believed deeply in the code of friendship and loyalty.

The fact that Lindsey started out as a political opponent only to become one the President’s most steadfast and faithful supporters underscores that Lindsey believed emphatically in the voice of the people.

There is a lot more I would like to say. His passing, at a time when he had never been more dynamic, is as unexpected as it is shocking. In many respects, Lindsey was the last of a breed of American Senator whose like we may not yet see again for a long time.

He lived every minute in the arena, a political gladiator to the very last.

More than anything now, our thoughts are with his Sister, nieces and loved ones.

We pray that God will ease their sorrow and heal their pain.

Lindsey can never be replaced and will never be forgotten.

Godspeed, my friend.

[Rick Snyder @RickFOP86]

WOW: Delaware County (IN) Prosecutor shares Frustration with Indy’s Prosecutor after Vote of NO CONFIDENCE

"I have heard many people refer to 'rogue prosecutors' in Indiana…the only rogue prosecutor that I know of in Indiana is located in Marion County.” #CapitalCityCrisis

[Nick Vaughn @nvaughnIN]

@NathanIndiana1 Unsurprising. When he was a State Senator, Mark Messmer authored a bill to give illegal immigrants driver’s licenses

[Nick Vaughn @nvaughnIN]

Gotta say that I’m fairly certain the continent of Africa will not be rooting for Belgium…

[Taner @fmdestekcom]

Balogun olayından sonra Belçika - Amerika maçı

[Nick Vaughn @nvaughnIN]

@Indy_reporter_ If they get their own country, will they move there?

[New York Post @nypost]

Biden's illegal immigration surge triggered 30% rise in home prices, $ 20% in rents, Fed paper finds https://t.co/c6gi29C736

[Nick Vaughn @nvaughnIN]

His Truth is marching on!

[Nick Vaughn @nvaughnIN]

Happy Independence Day everyone!

[Nick Vaughn @nvaughnIN]

@RobLutherLawyer D.C. Circuit Judge Justin Walker is my top pick

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Everything we need is right here with us.

The postmatch speech from Mauricio Pochettino. ⤵️

[Andrew Ireland @AndrewIrelandIN]

🚨 Governor Braun is again suspending ALL of Indiana’s gas tax.

I'll be filing a bill next session to tax the money sent out of our country by foreign workers and use that to permanently cut gas taxes on Hoosier families.

Fix our roads and let Mexico pay for it!

[Nick Vaughn @nvaughnIN]

@RandPaul Public schools are intentionally failing at this. You can’t learn about our country, but you must learn about sexuality and gender identity. That’s the rule. That’s the goal now.

[AF Post @AFpost]

JD Vance says the GOP is moving towards Hamiltonian economics and not Friedman-style laissez faire economics, enabling self-actualization, leisure, and family formation.

“The economy is a tool to serve the dignity of the human person.”

Follow: @AFpost

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

“I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government. And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.“

—Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861)

[Amy Swearer @AmySwearer]

The Majority: "There's scant evidence that anyone ever disagreed with our interpretation of birthright citizenship."

Justice Thomas:

[Nick Vaughn @nvaughnIN]

Justice Thomas truth nuke:

“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President's Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens. In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support. Because many potential applications of the President's Order are consistent with the original public meaning of the Citizenship Clause, I respectfully dissent.”

[Senator Eric Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt]

The Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision is wrong, dangerous, and disastrous for American sovereignty and the American people. If we can't fix it with ordinary legislation, then we must do what the Constitution commands in moments of national crisis: We must amend the Constitution and restore American citizenship. We must again put "We the People" first.

The Supreme Court’s decision constitutionalizing unlimited birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens and temporarily present aliens is wrong—and disastrous for our sovereignty and the future of our republic.

The decision exposes America to grave national security risks and threatens to erode the integrity of the core of American self-government: citizenship.

Citizenship is more than paperwork issued by the government. It is more than a bureaucratic label that grants access to government programs.

Citizenship is the covenantal bond between a nation and its people.

In a republic like ours, that bond carries enormous weight. In the United States, sovereignty does not belong to a king or a ruling class. It belongs to the American people themselves.

Citizenship defines the legal recognition of who the American people are.

Citizenship defines the political community that governs the United States.

It defines who exercises the sovereign authority of this republic.

But under the Supreme Court’s erroneous interpretation, the Constitution now requires citizenship for anyone who happens to be born on U.S. soil.

Even if their parents entered the country illegally. In other words, even if the American people—the citizenry—have prohibited those parents from entering our territory.

Even if they are here only temporarily as tourists or on student visas.

Even if they have no intention of joining the American nation.

That is a dramatic departure from how serious nations understand citizenship. Under the Supreme Court’s decision, citizenship no longer reflects allegiance or loyalty to a country and its laws. It becomes an administrative status to be seized by interlopers.

This ruling is the final alarm bell.

The bond of American citizenship has slowly eroded through a series of Supreme Court opinions, congressional actions and inactions, and circumstances the Framers of our Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment could not have foreseen.

The result is a constitutional order in which the American people are losing control over the most basic question in any republic: who belongs to the political community that governs the nation.

This has been the central fight of my work in this important year for American national identity. I led an amicus brief in this very case. I convened a hearing on birthright citizenship and the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. I have pressed this issue because citizenship is the threshold question of the republic. If we lose control of citizenship, we lose control of self-government itself.

In the wake of an erroneous Supreme Court ruling like this one, Congress has a duty to examine the Constitution’s text, the historical record, and the policy consequences.

Congress also has the power to respond.

When the Court mistakenly interprets a statute, Congress can amend the statute through bicameralism and presentment.

But when the Court entrenches its mistake as a constitutional command, the remedy must match the injury. Congress can propose an amendment under Article V, and the states can ratify it. That process is purposefully difficult. It requires two-thirds of each chamber of Congress and ratification by three-quarters of the states.

Here, the Supreme Court issued a constitutional ruling. Ordinary legislation cannot repair the damage. A constitutional amendment is now required.

Accordingly, I will be announcing a forthcoming constitutional amendment to restore the sacred bond between American citizens and their government.

That amendment will restore the original American understanding of citizenship. It will restore the right of the American people to define their own political community. And it will ensure that citizenship once again reflects allegiance, permanence, and membership in the American nation.

This amendment accords with the text, history, and tradition of the Constitution and the American conception of citizenship.

It restores the principle embodied in the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the law that formed the basis for the Fourteenth Amendment. As my amicus brief in this case explained, the law contained a citizenship provision establishing that “all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power” would be granted birthright citizenship.

That provision was understood to grant birthright citizenship to children born of parents domiciled in the United States while clearly excluding children born to foreign parents temporarily visiting the United States.

And as my brief recounts, the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to constitutionalize the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The original American understanding of citizenship was never a suicide pact. It was never a weapon for illegal entry, temporary presence, demographic conquest, or foreign influence.

Left unaddressed, this Supreme Court decision will destroy the republic. A nation that cannot determine who belongs to its political community will lose control of its sovereignty and its unique character and traditions as new generations of unassimilated foreigners are automatically granted citizenship.

We have seen exactly what this process looks like as foreign communists have essentially taken over New York City politics. We cannot allow this Supreme Court decision to consign the rest of our nation to the same fate.

Today is a sad day in the history of our republic. But America and the Constitution have survived for 250 years because each generation has had patriots who, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, valiantly fought back the existential threats this great nation has faced.

Our generation’s existential threat is a hostile takeover through mass migration.

We must—and we will—honor the patriots who came before us by doing our part to ensure we pass on America, the Constitution, and our nation—the real versions, not desiccated husks.

That work begins with restoring the right of the American people to decide who joins the political community that governs the United States and exercises the people’s sovereignty.

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ and women’s competitive sports.

The 6-3 decision came from Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Read more: https://t.co/0xNgwI1BVd

[Jon Schweppe 🇺🇸 @JonSchweppe]

The SCREEN Act just passed the House 267-117.

We are one step closer to national age verification requirements for adult websites.