00:00:00.000In a 5-4 decision, the justices upheld a 2020 Mississippi law that says mail-in ballots still count if they are postmarked by Election Day and arrive within five days.
00:00:11.360Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected a radical attempt by Republicans to rewrite election law.
00:00:18.740Quote, the Election Day statutes say nothing about ballot receipt and we cannot add to the words Congress chose.
00:00:25.280Democracy Docket adds this, quote, in addition to protecting similar laws in 13 other states and Washington, D.C., this ruling will make it harder for the GOP to mount a legal assault on early voting, which legal experts said would be likely if the court ruled for the RNC.
00:00:41.540Quote, it also spares laws in 17 states that specifically provide ballot receipt grace periods for military and overseas voters.
00:00:51.240In the last hour, Donald Trump reacted to the ruling.
00:00:55.060Lost his mind is what we'd say if he were anyone but the president by making baseless claims again that mail-in voting, which is how he votes, is, quote, cheating.
00:01:05.240What comes next for the SAVE Act after today's ruling?
00:01:07.780Well, because of the mail-in ballot ruling, which was a little bit surprising, gives people more time to vote illegally, let's say.
00:01:17.340But the SAVE Act is even more important, and that's the right.
00:01:22.000You have to be a citizen of our country.
00:01:24.940Okay, you have to show you're a citizen of our country called citizenship.0.77
00:01:28.960Voter ID by photo, photo voter ID, and no mail-in ballots unless you're in the military disabled.
00:01:36.180you're ill or you're away or even on a vacation we're being very open about it
00:01:41.220it's pretty easy and we'll have honest elections but the ruling which a lot of
00:01:47.760people were waiting for that was a ruling that was I think it was very
00:01:51.840detrimental to honest elections but it is what it is basically they're keeping
00:01:57.000it a little bit the way it is now they may have a little bit of a restriction
00:02:00.360on based on the word about firing the parliamentarian and then you have the the very important one the
00:02:07.440slaughter case which we'll talk about if you ask that question but the parliamentarian what were
00:02:14.440you asking about yeah have you talked with Thune about I have no I can't imagine why you'd keep a
00:02:19.360woman that was put there by Harry Reid and Barack Hussein Obama I cannot understand it
00:02:24.040the leader has the right to fire the person
00:03:02.660Some of the volunteers included Jack Posobiec.
00:03:05.320She was also a former deputy director of the Republican National Lawyers Association
00:03:09.820and a veteran of Florida GOP politics.0.78
00:03:12.600Do you see her in that role as potentially dangerous?
00:03:16.880well when she worked on election integrity election integrity meant something different
00:03:24.240than what you and i might mean when we use that term right i think about that as protecting
00:03:29.080people's ability to register to vote and to have their vote counted and what she was involved in
00:03:35.280was something very different it was the perpetration of the big lie in large part and
00:03:39.320spreading myths about our elections so i think this is an alarming symbol but it's important
00:03:45.960that we're seeing it happen in public. And I would say to my brother, Cornell, let's not fall down
00:03:51.180before we get hit. Because even though they're trying to dilute our votes and take away our
00:03:56.740votes, and I say this as a Southern Democrat, you know, I vote Democratic in Alabama a lot of the
00:04:01.420time. I am willing to stand in the long lines. I'm willing to figure out where the new place that I
00:04:07.560vote is now. I'm willing to, you know, walk the walk in our newly created districts in Alabama
00:04:14.560that are gerrymandered, but I'm mindful that we've been very successful. And when I say we,
00:04:20.380I don't say that in a partisan sense. I say people who believe in democracy and fair elections.
00:04:25.780We've been remarkably successful in limiting, for instance, the post-Kalai damage. Many states have
00:04:31.180not gerrymandered to the full extent that the court apparently would have acknowledged.
00:04:36.060And so as we look at what's going on in the office of the DNI, and it appears very clearly
00:04:42.620that what's underway here is an effort to use that office to perpetrate election myths this
00:04:49.380fall. We all know that in 2020, Trump tried to do that at the Justice Department and failed
00:04:55.060because the acting attorney general, the acting deputy stood up and refused to let their service
00:05:01.180be used to perpetrate myths about election fraud. That's probably not going to be the case this year.
00:05:06.880The guardrails are gone at DOJ. And now we see an effort and a lot of damage, frankly, could be done selectively declassifying intelligence community information in an effort to make it look like there has been some form of fraud in the vote.
00:05:23.340That can be done very deceptively. The important thing is that we're on guard, that there are people who will be prepared for that.
00:05:30.160What is the story for you when it comes to executive power and the future of our democratic institutions, whether it's under Trump or any other president in the future?
00:05:40.800I think it's a full embrace of the unitary executive theory.
00:05:44.060And if you read the opinion in Slaughter, they're not citing cases.
00:05:47.920They're citing things that Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers.
00:07:42.260Probably the Mississippi attorney general, who's a Republican, might go easy on them.
00:07:46.740So we intervened right away and we got into this case in the trial court and we have fought and we have fought and we fought.
00:07:51.720And, you know, today was a good victory. It was 5-4. It was close. But the net result is that voters throughout the country in a whole bunch of states will be able to make sure that the Postal Service delays and Donald Trump's efforts to make those delays greater will not disenfranchise them from having their ballots counted.
00:08:09.720And we're talking here about hundreds of thousands of voters.
00:08:13.320The RNC got into this case and brought this case because, as they point out, they believe that the voters who would be disenfranchised would be disproportionately Democrats.
00:13:24.380But these guys, the left challenges everything.
00:13:28.740And we are getting these terrible decisions from these awful left-wing Trump court judges all over the country.0.89
00:13:34.840And then this decision, to me, the worst part of this decision is it emboldens these left-wing crazy judges that are inhabiting our courts all over the country.0.89
00:13:48.480That's the constitutional crisis we face is all of these judges.
00:13:52.600But I will tell you that I think that there is there's a roadmap in this.
00:13:59.220Unfortunately, it requires congressional action.
00:14:02.640And we see how terrible Congress, the U.S. Senate is.
00:14:06.760So, I mean, we have a crisis because the judges are not letting the president do his job and they're trying to do Congress's job.
00:17:51.720As I'm reading through this majority opinion, I'm thinking, you know, if the Supreme Court thinks that it has to be postmarked, California's law is unconstitutional.
00:18:01.880If they say that the act of voting is supposed to take place on Election Day and that's separate from receiving the ballot, I think that's crazy.
00:18:12.360But that means early voting is out the door.
00:18:21.720I mean, there's a lot of dicta in here about the history of why Congress set an election day in the first place was because states were holding elections on different days and then the results could be known before election day.
00:18:38.400I mean, it's a really goofy opinion, but there's enough in here that I think we should be starting.
00:18:43.460I'm actually going to convene a group and see if we can get some lawyers and some organizations to file some lawsuits starting, you know, immediately.
00:18:54.440But, you know, these things, cases, you're right about the emergency docket.
00:18:57.380This thing took two years to get here.
00:19:00.860But they've, with all the reading, if you read about it and they go through the whole history of it, they've essentially agreed to election month, or I call it almost election two months, election month and a half, right?
00:19:13.040four to six weeks early voting, then like in L.A., they just keep counting till they get a
00:19:18.200Democrat Socialist winner. They, you know, they certify four weeks later. So it's like it's over
00:19:23.860a two-month process in some places, right? Didn't they just confirm that that's okay to do?
00:19:29.300Well, I don't think so. I think that the, I think the Supreme Court,
00:19:33.260I think this is a pretty narrow decision, first of all, because they make it clear that there was
00:19:39.020not a challenge to early voting. There was not a challenge to the post office delivery system.
00:19:44.780And what they basically did was they took the very poorly written UOCAVA, Uniformed Overseas
00:19:52.200Citizens Absentee Voting Act, which is a federal statute, and which is something that Democrats
00:19:57.040put together under the guise of helping military voters, when really what they wanted to do was to
00:20:02.060legalized fraud among civilian overseas voters. And so I think that the model election laws that
00:20:11.560we put together for the election integrity network, our handbook calls for changes in
00:20:17.840Yochava and in the way states define things. Because you want to talk about a mess of a0.97
00:20:22.100statute, Yochava, and that's what the Supreme Court relied on. So Secretary of State Michael
00:20:29.240Watson from Mississippi, his response was Congress needs to do its job better. And I think that's
00:20:34.300right. But it's very interesting. This court said, well, we know that there are concerns about fraud
00:20:41.460and all, but those are concerns people should take to the legislature, not to the court.
00:20:46.520And it's probably not the best thing, but it's up to Congress to fix it. Okay. All right. We're
00:20:52.120aware of that. So now what we have to do is get Congress to fix some things. But we know how hard
00:20:57.020That is, as we're seeing with the Save America Act, because we have no Democrats who'll vote for any kind of election integrity.
00:21:03.420I think it's the most amazing thing to me, though, Steve, listening to those Democrats and Mark Elias and this, that somehow it is a radical notion.
00:21:12.780That one would say it was radical on MSNBC.
00:21:16.300It's radical to have to receive the ballots by the close of the polls on Election Day.
00:21:23.120I mean, I think Mississippi only passed this law in 2020 because of COVID.
00:21:26.460Okay, they need to switch their law, and I'm pretty sure that the Mississippi legislature will do that.
00:21:33.440But it also—here's the other thing, another big takeaway from this opinion, is that the Supreme Court—and maybe they didn't mean to say this, those three left-wing women didn't mean to say this—but they said and they agreed that most of these laws are in the hands of the states.
00:21:54.440And that would mean that H.R. 1, which was the bill Nancy Pelosi authored, that would have made federal law on elections what we see in California, would have Californianized all of our elections.
00:22:09.120The Supreme Court in this opinion today said, no, no, no, that's for the states to decide.
00:22:15.200So that would mean that if the Democrats ever get control of Congress again and they start to try to do that again, we've got a Supreme Court decision, this decision that says they can't do that.
00:22:27.840But you're right. We have to have the lawyers on our side and all the legal groups need to get together and we need to pick through this and start filing some lawsuits immediately against some of the other things, because I don't think it opens wide the door for early voting.
00:22:45.940I think early voting is suspect under this decision, and I think we need to take some of those 45-day early voting states and take those straight to the Supreme Court.
00:22:55.800Say, okay, you said that the act of voting is what happens on Election Day, so what about this?
00:24:21.860The reason we're in this mess is because there's not a single Democrat, not John Fetterman, nobody, not a single Democratic senator will vote to allow this bill to be voted on, not one.
00:24:34.900And they won't vote for it, 100 percent Democrat opposition, 100 percent.
00:24:38.440So we're down to four Republican senators, and it's up to these four Republican senators to decide that they would agree to overrule the parliamentarian and to say the Save America Act can be attached to reconciliation.
00:24:59.960Four senators would have to agree to vote for that, Republicans.
00:25:04.100And if they would do that, then we could pass the Save America Act with J.D. Vance in the chair, and we could pass the Save America Act on a simple majority.
00:25:13.800We're down to four Republican senators plus all of the Democrats who are opposed.
00:25:19.240So we need to focus on Bill Cassidy, Tom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski.
00:25:24.860I'll tell you what we have to do to Lisa Murkowski.
00:25:27.140In November, there will be on the ballot in Alaska a repeal of ranked choice voting.
00:25:33.080If that passes, it almost passed two years ago, barely failed, just a few hundred votes, and the proponents for repeal spent about $100,000 compared to $14 million spent against repeal two years ago.
00:25:51.780We'll probably see a repeat of that.0.99
00:25:53.680Lisa Murkowski doesn't have ranked choice voting.1.00
00:25:56.040If that were to happen, there's no way she gets reelected in two years.1.00
00:26:00.640So the thing that has to happen is that we've got to get rid of people like Lisa Murkowski.
00:26:07.860But in the meanwhile, we have got to get Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, and Tom Tillis to all vote to overturn the parliamentarian and to allow the Save America Act to be attached to reconciliation.
00:26:21.020That's one of the three ways, and to me it's the easiest way for the Senate.
00:26:25.240But none of it's easy. These guys make it really hard hiding behind these rules, these ossified rules.
00:26:31.020And they stick to these rules created by Robert Byrd, the former majority leader, Democrat majority leader for a long time of the U.S. Senate, who was a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
00:26:43.680And I keep saying, why are you guys clinging to a Ku Klux Klan, a Klansman's rule?0.59
00:26:50.740I'm not calling it the Byrd rule anymore. I'm going to call it the KKK rule.0.90
00:26:54.000Why don't we get rid of the KKK rule? Why don't we get rid of this this seeming obedience by these Republican senators 40 years hence to because they could they could get rid of this.
00:27:08.860I stand by what I said. You're going to have you're going to have to have a leadership fight in the Senate and make this central, make this central, have a leadership fight first.
00:27:20.720Best case, you replace the worst, worst, worst, worst case, worst case, you bloody him.
00:27:26.900President's just got to tell somebody, say, hey, you, you're running and just do it that way.0.91
00:27:32.980You're going to have to do it. Otherwise, it's very simple.
00:27:36.140You're going to lose the House and the Senate if you don't do this.
00:27:38.900I'm now convinced. And I was always the number one voice saying we would hang in for it.
00:27:43.880So if the president wants to be impeached, if everybody in the White House wants to be subpoenaed, go for it.
00:27:48.840just don't do anything right right cleta where they go for election integrity network in your
00:27:54.240social media where they go for you for uh at ei on x at ei watchdogs that's our election
00:28:02.060integrity network uh x account uh at cleta mitchell is where i am on x and then election
00:28:08.060integrity network.org is our website and we've got a lot of work to do people we've got so much
00:28:15.440work to do and i know these democrats are just gleeful because of the supreme court ruling and
00:28:21.560that's what we got from amy coney barrett and john roberts today and i'm pretty i'm pretty upset
00:28:25.920about it it's pretty outrageous but we need to take it and wrap it around their necks and bring
00:28:30.700some more cases and let and say but this is what you said over here we need to make them peel it
00:28:35.400and eat it let's roll thank you ma'am appreciate you thank you listen up patriots president trump
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00:33:23.580to go after those 100 million other illegal aliens.
00:33:30.980This is the zone we were allotted to protest.
00:33:33.820If a guy like Newsom or Ossoff or one of these people
00:33:36.900with even a more radical VP wins in 28,
00:33:39.780how secure is that border given those scenarios?
00:33:44.740sir steve the border is only as secure as the folks that are manning it
00:33:59.780okay um welcome back bovino is going to be at uh commander bovino will be with me at the top of
00:34:05.620the hour you do not want to miss that one of the more important interviews we've ever done for the
00:34:09.540the entire hour on the war room so metaxas we are number eight this week how do we drive it
00:34:16.420back up to number uh to number one sir because this is our week brother this is our week and
00:34:21.700everybody i've gotten this book to and i've sent out dozens as gifts because i think it's that
00:34:27.120important they love this book even people who don't read a lot are devouring this book because
00:34:32.980it's so beautifully written and so logical about how you took a very complicated topic and made
00:34:38.260it accessible with everybody? How do we get it back to number one? Well, it's simple. Everybody
00:34:44.040listening to us right now has to buy several copies, probably buy a copy for your local library,
00:34:50.200buy a copy for your friends that are not on the same page as we are politically. To be quite honest,
00:34:54.660Steve, what amazes me is when I write books like this, I know mostly it's going to be Christian0.99
00:35:00.160conservatives who buy them, but I always write them for the people that are not Christians
00:35:04.880or conservatives. I say, I want to tell the truth in a way that if you're not on our page,0.82
00:35:11.620it opens your eyes and you say, you know what? I never heard this before. Why have I never heard
00:35:15.700this before? Well, it's because you read the New York Times and other trashy papers or you listen
00:35:19.600to CNN. But the point is, I want to get this book into the hands of your average American.
00:35:27.880And as you know and I know, we're being censored. My friends are telling me they can't find this
00:35:32.720book in bookstores. It was number two on the New York Times list. Last week was number eight.
00:35:38.440Amazon has run out of copies. Now they're getting copies. But it's kind of crazy that so many people
00:35:44.300are reading and buying this book, but you still can't find it in bookstores. So my mission really
00:35:48.700is to get the ideas, which your audience is familiar with these ideas, to get these ideas
00:35:54.560in the hands of your average American. If your average American is confronted with this, it'll
00:36:00.180be a new day we we have to force this we have to force have to we have to be a forcing function
00:36:05.480barnes and noble the bookstores are barely hanging on but they won't take a book that'll be a blowout
00:36:11.660seller because they don't want this part of the they don't want this idea of the revolution to
00:36:17.440become part of the permanent american you know mindscape they'd rather have all this left-wing
00:36:22.420trash they've got in there so they won't order these small independent bookstores won't do it0.95
00:36:27.040They won't even put it in the stacks. We have to make this such an overwhelming bestseller that they're absolutely, because of economic necessity, are forced to, sir.
00:36:36.780I mean, actually, that's exactly what I've been saying. You have to make it too big to rig. I didn't coin that phrase.
00:36:42.700You have to make it too big to rig because if it's consistently up at the top, then the bookstores, they're kind of going to be forced to carry it.
00:36:49.880And I say to everybody, go into your local bookstore. Don't tell them you're a MAGA person.
00:36:54.760Just say, do you have the book Revolution by New York Times bestseller, Eric Metat, do you have the book Revolution?
00:37:00.760Ask them, ask them, ask them, because if it's not in the stores, they're censoring this.
00:37:06.320And again, we know this is how the left works.
00:37:10.600I remember Michael Medved wrote a book 35 years ago, Hollywood vs. America, that if they wanted to make money in Hollywood, they would make G-rated films for families.
00:37:17.700But they would rather virtue signal for their buddies in the Hollywood elite, so they made gritty, nasty, R-rated films.
00:37:24.800That's the way it's always been with the cultural elites.
00:37:27.320So you have to make it too big to rig.
00:37:28.800And again, I say, this is a book, if you give this to your average person, they're going
00:37:33.400to read it and they're going to go, hey, this is a great story of America.
00:37:50.600And I probably think that President Trump's endorsement probably made some of these woke bookstore owners say like, oh, I don't I don't want the book.
00:37:58.220So don't tell him that the president likes it. Tell him Jimmy Carter loved it.
00:38:02.200I don't know. Tell him something like that. Tell him Larry David absolutely loves this book.
00:38:07.580I don't know if they'll buy that, but let's I want to go back in time and put us on this timeline.
00:38:13.200And 250 years ago, I think yesterday, didn't Jefferson – Jefferson submitted for editorial review the actual Declaration of Independence, and today I think is the 250th anniversary of the Virginia Constitution.
00:39:22.040We need to lay low, step back, let the Virginians take the lead on this.
00:39:27.000So we got Richard Henry Lee to propose independence.
00:39:31.100That was a big deal to get a Virginian to do that.
00:39:33.780When we want to pick somebody for the continent to lead the Continental Army, we could have, they were going to pick, John Hancock thought they're going to pick me.
00:39:41.580John Adams is like, no, no, no, you're from Massachusetts.
00:39:43.620We need to pick somebody from Virginia.
00:39:45.820We're going to pick George Washington.
00:39:47.360Now, I believe God's hand was in this.
00:39:49.100But when it comes actually to what happened to lead to independence, John Adams was very canny.
00:39:54.880So he understood, he basically, it's kind of funny, actually.
00:39:58.500I tell the story in detail in the book and you've read it. But he was basically thinking, here's what we're going to do. We're going to propose independence, but it's going to be a very anodyne, neutral kind of like nobody can really disagree with it. It's not going to be a big deal. And we're going to start with the most anodyne, neutral thing of all.
00:40:16.960We're simply going to say, listen, things are falling apart. So every one of the 13 colonies needs to establish its own assembly because the British, you know, they're they're not we they don't have our backs anymore.
00:40:30.080So we need to take care of ourselves. We need to create our own assemblies. And in effect, when he got them to say yes to that, it was game over. Independence had already happened.
00:40:40.460But John Adams was very, very shrewd. By doing that, he kind of made them take a step forward.
00:40:48.220And then actually, another funny thing is the Richard Henry Lee proposal for independence.
00:40:53.540Again, it was very neutral. It wasn't incendiary language.
00:40:57.040But then somebody said, oh, you know what? Somebody needs to write a kind of a preamble to explain what we've just signed here.
00:41:03.400Right. And so they say, John Adams, why don't you do it?
00:41:05.720He writes a preamble that is five times as long as the actual resolution, and it is 10
00:41:29.940And of course, you know, July 2nd, they basically say we're voting for independence.
00:41:34.280So that was the day he thought was going to be the day.
00:41:37.460But then they said, oh, well, we've got to approve the declaration.
00:41:40.040So they took the next two days and eventually on the 4th, they officially approved it.
00:41:44.580But independence really comes before that.
00:41:46.300And what I keep saying is when we keep raving about the Declaration of Independence, it's a little weird.
00:41:50.880It's like it's like that's the birth certificate of independence.
00:41:55.120So it would be like going to the hospital and they say, well, the mother is in this room.0.60
00:42:00.380And you go, I don't want to see the mother that gave birth.
00:42:02.420show me the man who printed the birth certificate. I want to meet that man.
00:42:06.720It's a little backwards. So we need to understand independence was something that it precedes
00:42:11.980the Declaration. The Declaration didn't sort of invent the idea of independence and everything
00:42:16.620that's in the Declaration of Independence. These ideas were everywhere long before
00:42:21.140Thomas Jefferson sat down to put it together. Do you use, I got a minute here, I want to hold
00:42:27.120you through the break. The book's written almost like a novel. I think the reason people love it,
00:42:31.700It's it's all historical fact and use obviously the quotes from history, but you use novelistic techniques to kind of drive the narrative forward.
00:42:40.460The thing you like to put it down. Yeah, you don't even like that.
00:42:43.840You just it's like, yeah, true. And cold blood. That's a perfect example.
00:42:47.340How did you how did you do that? I'm I'm just like Truman Capote now that I find that very funny.
00:42:52.900So that's why I got to say say stupid things. Basically, it's just my instinct as a writer.0.99
00:42:58.520I've always been able to tell stories and communicate.
00:43:01.320And I, you know, if I'm at a dinner party or whatever, I'll interrupt people like, no,
00:43:04.060no, no, you missed this piece or you missed it.
00:43:06.080I always want to put in the really the entertaining stuff, the weird stuff, the stuff that makes
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