Trump Defies Judicial Tyranny ｜ Guest： Sean Davis ｜ 3⧸19⧸25
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Sean Davis, the co-founder of the Federalist, joins me to talk about how the deep state is trying to delegitimize Donald Trump and his presidency, and how the judicial system is powerless to stop them.
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And for once in our lifetimes, a Republican president has decided to actually use power,
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They haven't been able to put together a competent pushback.
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However, it seems like the system has hit on a snag that they feel is ultimately going
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to slow down or cease Trump's revolution in its footsteps, which is activist judges,
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obstructionist judges who want to exceed their constitutional authority, throw a wrench into
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everything that Donald Trump is doing, and ultimately undermine our governance.
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Joining me today to talk about this is Sean Davis.
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He's the co-founder of the Federalist, the CEO over there.
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You have been just absolutely tearing into the abuse of judiciary power on Twitter.
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I knew that you were going to be one of the best people to get into this.
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Like I said, Donald Trump making some impressive and important moves when it comes to dismantling
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the deep state, tearing out the progressive patronage network when it comes to foreign aid
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and NGOs trying to deport large numbers of violent gang members.
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And yet, Sean, at every step, we see judges trying to step in.
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We've had judges ruling that Donald Trump isn't allowed to decide who's in the military.
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Donald Trump isn't allowed to decide how the people who work for the executive branch do
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And the question I have for you is, what is the president and what does he do?
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Because according to district judges, it sounds like the president is supposed to be Joe Biden.
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He's supposed to sit around, eat some ice cream, show up to press junkets.
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Yeah, what we've learned really since Trump's first term is that there's this kind of shadowy
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cabal, whether you want to call it the deep state, the administrative state, now the judicial
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state, that thinks it has the divine right to rule and that the president is really just
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there as a figurehead to wave and shake hands and kiss babies.
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And they seem absolutely irritated, like a witch looking at a cross or a vampire seeing garlic
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at the idea of an elected president doing what he wants, according to the people who elected
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And it's a fascinating take to me at how the left handles actual democracy.
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So we've heard them talk about our sacred democracy for years now, and we knew that was
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And what we're getting treated to now is with Trump understanding the nature of the
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administrative state and bringing it to heel, we're now seeing the rise of the judicial tyrannical
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state where we have a bunch of unelected judges in robes, not even on the Supreme Court.
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We're talking about like random trial judges in D.C. deciding that they have the powers of
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And I think the real challenge of this term, it's going to be a similar one to the first,
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but it's going to be how do you handle a rogue judiciary that recognizes zero limits on its
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In the first Trump administration, obviously a number of great things happened, but ultimately
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people, I think, mostly remember it for being hampered by large amounts of press interference
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and, most importantly, interference from the president's own executive branch.
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People who wouldn't listen, who are countermanding orders, who were actively going out and saying,
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we will not follow the executive orders coming from the president of the United States.
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This was a constant problem that Trump was having to deal with, and it hindered a large
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This time, it's clear that Donald Trump has walked in with a better understanding of how
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the government actually works, that simply being elected to the office and being in power
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And you have to take control of the wider executive apparatus.
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You can't just sit inside the White House dictating and expect everyone to ultimately follow
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However, now that Trump has learned that lesson, as you point out, there's a new stumbling block,
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a new way to go ahead and stand between the president and his constitutional powers.
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Right now, as you point out, again, there are judges.
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It's just random judges on the bench who are out there basically saying that the article
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two of the United States Constitution says, and the president shall sit in a chair like
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that that's it, that the judges ultimately decide where we spend money, who gets to be in the
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military, where we deploy troops, when we deport somebody, that the judicial review process
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allows them to basically move in and control every aspect of the government just in case
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a president got a weird idea that the executive was in charge of the executive branch.
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The left are painting this as a constitutional crisis, but really what we're seeing is actual
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constitutional governance, and it's been so long since we've seen constitutional governments,
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Well, I actually think we are facing a constitutional crisis now because the people have elected
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Not that that matters as far as who inhabits the Oval Office, but it does matter in terms
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They clearly have an electoral democratic mandate to do what they're doing.
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And I think this case regarding the Venezuelan terrorists of Trin de Aragua being detained
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and removed from the U.S. and a judge purporting to block the president from doing that, personally,
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I think the judge here chose a horrific test case for the left here because he's infringing
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on what has been for almost 250 years a unanimously understood core power of the presidency that
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And instead, you have this judge not looking at a law from first impression, like this law
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was just passed and Trump's using it for the first time.
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This has been a law really since the dawn of the American era.
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It's been upheld repeatedly in multiple centuries by courts, including the Supreme Court.
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In the most recent instance was after World War II, where the court looked at this.
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Somebody was challenging the removal of a German citizen in 1948.
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Now, for those of you who have read a book or have maybe watched some episodes about Hitler
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on the History Channel, 1948 was after World War II was over.
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By several years, we had a treaty with Germany at that point.
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And this law says, you know, when in times of war, military hostility, predatory invasion
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or incursion, the president is able to find and remove alien enemies as he determines.
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So you have a case from 1948 where the Supreme Court said, years after the war with Germany
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was over, the judiciary lacks the authority to review a removal order by the president
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So what we have instead here is a judge who said, you know what?
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I actually think not only do I personally have the right to review the order, I actually have
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the right to direct the movements of military aircraft.
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I have the right to demand of the executive branch operational military intelligence about
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the status and location of enemy forces in the United States right now.
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And it is such an abomination and inversion of how things work.
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And then you look at the form that it's taking, and we'll get into like a little technical legal
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area here, for whatever reason, temporary restraining orders, TROs, are not appealable.
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You have to let the whole thing kind of work itself out before you can appeal that.
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So what we have these judges doing is they're effectively doing nationwide blanket injunctions,
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and they are dressing them up in the garb of a temporary restraining order to prevent the
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president and the DOJ from even having the ability to appeal and get immediate relief from
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And they all think they're being super clever and super cheeky, and no one's going to see
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And we're actually on the brink of a constitutional crisis here because we have unelected, inferior,
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effectively staffer-level members of the judiciary, deciding that they have war-making and war-fighting
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That is a seizure of power by lawless, illegal means.
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And it represents, to me, a fatal threat to this country and our way of life.
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And unfortunately, we have a chief justice right now who looks at that and is like,
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yeah, I mean, we'll get to it when we get to it.
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Yeah, that was going to be my next question for you.
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Obviously, we have a chief justice who you think would want to act to maintain the integrity
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of the courts and the judiciary branch in general.
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He should recognize the level of threat that you're discussing here.
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Throwing the legitimacy of the court into a dispute in this moment seems pretty dicey.
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And yet he comes out with what is effectively a press release and more or less seems to push
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back against Donald Trump in the middle of this process.
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Now, I'm not a scholar in this area, but I'm reasonably sure that that's a relatively
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unprecedented action, one that's ill-advised in a moment such as this.
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You would think that Roberts would recognize that he's stepping out and placing the integrity
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And yet he thinks he's ultimately defending it by coming out and saying, no, you can't impeach
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judges who are, well, actively doing things to avoid, as you point out, the basic process
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with which people would appeal what's going on here, would question what's happening here.
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What we have is basically judges thinking they're being clever to use little loopholes to avoid
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any actual judicial relief, any legal questioning of this doctrine, of this application.
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And yet here he is, what more or less standing up for judges that are obviously putting us
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into the constitutional crisis that you are describing.
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And I think there's two ways to look at what Roberts is doing.
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He said over and over and over, he's worried about the legitimacy of the court.
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I actually think the rule of the law and the belief that our courts are equipped to impartially
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adjudicate the law, I think that is a foundational need for civil society.
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So if he truly believes in judicial legitimacy, I think that's great.
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But the first way to look at it is that he does truly believe in that, that it's an important
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But he's an utter fool if he thinks what he is doing is the best way of preserving it.
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For example, the Constitution mentions the chief justice one time.
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And it mentions that he has the role of presiding over a Senate trial of a president who's been
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Nowhere does it say the chief justice has any authority over how, when, or for what reasons
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The chief justice has no say or role in whether an inferior judge in the judiciary is impeached.
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He has no say, role, or authority in whether one of his colleagues on the Supreme Court is
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But at the end of the day, according to our Constitution, it is entirely a political decision
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left up to people who are elected by and accountable to the people of this country.
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So for him to wade in on a debate about the propriety of even discussing whether a judge
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should be impeached, I think is so appalling and so beyond the pale and so foolish.
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Because all it does is, by looking like a politician, he's practically begging to be treated like
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Politicians are not trusted in the same way judges are.
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Like, if you had to pick between having the reputation and authority of a judge versus
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a politician, you would pick judge every day of the week.
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And yet, for some reason, he's deciding he wants to be treated like a politician by acting
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Now, the other way to look at it is that when he talks about judicial legitimacy, he's using
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different words and different meanings than you or I might use, like when Democrats talk
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I suspect he may use the term judicial legitimacy more as a euphemism for just his power.
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And he doesn't like anyone infringing on his power.
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But even in that case, I've got bad news for him.
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The more people view the Supreme Court as being an unaccountable legislature, unaccountable
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to the people, unelected with no way of dealing with it, they're going to all but demand that
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their president, who they elect, and their Congress, who they elect, just straight up ignore them.
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It will move up to the Supreme Court level if the Supreme Court decides it's simply not bound.
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And its inferiors in the judiciary are simply not bound by the restraints of the Constitution.
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And what I would like to avoid is us ever getting to that point.
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Because if we get to the point where there is no belief, there is no deference to, there's
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Because you can't have rule of law at that point.
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And while it might be fun for some on the right to think about the Trump just giving the middle
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finger to the courts and doing what he wants, and it'll be all fun and games, Trump's not
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And Republicans aren't going to be president forever.
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And I think one thing we've seen over the years is that Democrats are way better at using the
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levers of power against their enemies to crush them than Republicans are.
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And I don't think that's a place we want to be in the country where we're effectively
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handling total power unmoored from the law to anyone on the left.
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And yet that's exactly what John Roberts is basically setting up right now.
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And I hope there's people around him who are sane and wise and actually have discernment
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in the right temperament to tell him, hey, buddy, you say you're wanting to rescue your
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All you're doing right now is driving a stake into its heart.
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And it looks even worse than that, I think, because, you know, obviously the left is a
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One of the attempted assassinations was on a Supreme Court justice.
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The fact that progressives have tried to murder Supreme Court justices due to their potential
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rulings, but also the fact that on a regular basis, the White House went out of its way
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to encourage leftist protesters in direct violation of the law to form mobs and sit on the lawns
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of Supreme Court justices and to intimidate them.
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And I got to say, when you look at the way that Roberts is behaving, it's hard to come to
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any other conclusion than terrorism works in the United States.
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If you threaten the justice, if you show up at their house, if you intimidate them, if
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you send people to try to kill them, they will eventually rule in your favor or they
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will act in your favor or they will defend politically your actions.
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Now, that might ultimately not be the motivation for Roberts here, but it's hard to pretend that
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this probably hasn't crossed the mind of the justices that have had people screaming loudly
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on their lawns and ultimately taking possible violent action towards them.
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This is a very dangerous place to put the judiciary in where it seems pretty obviously influenced
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And right now, the left has a monopoly on public threats of violence because by and large,
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You don't see these calls from people on the right to go burn a carmaker to the ground
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and to go dox all the owners of its vehicles because you don't like what the guy who created
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I actually think Roberts, he may not understand this about himself.
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He is a case study in how the bullying of justices actually works.
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This was a guy who, by all accounts, agreed that Obamacare was unlawful, that it contained
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provisions that Congress didn't have the authority to enact, only to change his mind after a long-term
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bullying campaign led by the Washington Post and the New York Times to come up with one of
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the most internally inconsistent and inherently absurd rulings really of the modern era where
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he decided, I call it Schrodinger's tax, where he decided that for the purposes of saying that
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Obamacare was okay, it was going to be a tax for purposes of standing for the plaintiffs so that
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they could look at it, I think it was the Anti-Injunction Act, to look at it and have standing to
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rule on it, but it was not a tax for the purposes of whether it was proper or whether Congress
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had properly passed it as a tax as opposed to, say, a Commerce Clause regulation.
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So he had this completely ridiculous ruling that can't stand on its own two feet because
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And he got to that point because he was bullied by the New York Times.
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I mean, they didn't even need to get to the point of violent threats.
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They just had to say, do what we'll do or we'll say mean things about you.
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Imagine how much more powerful the threat of assassination and violence and terrorism against
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And yet, we don't see nearly the vociferousness of a response as we saw against Trump for having
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the audacity to criticize a corrupt judge on Truth Social.
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She'll take one sniff and be transported to that anniversary trip you took to Saint-Tropez
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She complained about her sunburn the whole trip.
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I got to say, this is also, I feel like, a reflection of a larger global trend.
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We see that the sclerotic bureaucracies, the corrupt oligarchies that have inhabited many
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countries across the world have become very unpopular.
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And so we're seeing a new set of energetic executives, be it Orban or others, out there
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Trying to forge a new way that allows for the continuation of some understanding of kind
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of liberal sentiments, but ultimately making our governments functional again by having actual
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And what we see in places like Romania and several Latin American countries is judiciaries
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that are just canceling elections, completely overturning results, changing on a dime what
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the democratic process is supposed to do and completely locking down the executives if they
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It seems like this is not something that's just a phenomenon in the United States, but
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a more general reaction of judiciaries that see the oligarchic structure of their countries
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threatened or perhaps get influenced by larger international bodies like, say, NATO, and
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ultimately end up directly involving themselves in overturning the democratic process or limiting
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the power of the executive for pretty much the explicit purpose of getting pats on the head
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There's effectively a judicial coup in Israel there against the elected government.
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And I think it's important to note a coup does not cease being a coup because the person
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behind it happens to wear a robe or have a law degree.
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You know, it really doesn't matter if you're wearing a fake military uniform with, you know,
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5,000 sparkly gold medals and ribbons on it, or you wear a powdered wig and a black robe.
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And it's really interesting globally to see how the left responds when the people do things
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So they'll generally start with trying to rig an election.
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But we've seen that everywhere, including in our own country.
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When that doesn't work, they'll often try to imprison the opposition to prevent them from
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When that doesn't work, they'll sometimes try to assassinate the opposition leader that
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If that doesn't work, they'll often do a coup, whether it's a military coup, a judicial coup,
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something like what the United States incited in Ukraine, the Maidan revolution there, a
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foreign-funded and orchestrated apparent populist coup.
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And when that doesn't work, sometimes they'll just go in with the military and just declare
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war against you and sweep you out militarily and by force.
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But what we don't generally see globally when the left loses is an acceptance that maybe
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I would, you know, for all the talk of accepting election results and our sacred democracy, I
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I would love to see the left just say, yeah, we lost because people don't like what we believe.
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In my lifetime, I don't think I've yet to see a president.
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I don't think I've seen a Republican president elected and Democrats respond by saying, well,
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Well, because I think ultimately the left believe that they have the right to control
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If you look at all of their responses to their current laws, it's like, well, how could
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Why can't we manipulate the flow of information more thoroughly?
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You know, it's never like, well, maybe like cutting the genitals off of kids isn't that
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It's just like, how can we more effectively, you know, fire, debank, you know, silence people
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who might point out that chopping the genitals off of children is something that's ultimately
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And speaking of, you know, precedents that kind of set the table here, you have Joe Biden
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who went out multiple times along with his administration and regularly bragged about
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the fact that they were directly ignoring court rulings.
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We're going to we're going to get rid of student debt.
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They would just keep doing it whenever they found the opportunity.
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And ultimately, they knew that the court battle was never going to catch up with what they
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Same thing happened when it came to illegal immigration in the United States.
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Obviously, you can't just leave the borders open like that.
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Like, like, there's just there's no other way to describe it.
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This is treason for the purposes of engineering a political outcome that you hope eventually
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to have in perpetuity when it comes to bringing in illegal immigrants and turning them into dedicated
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And yet this was done because ultimately they knew that the courts were never going to catch
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If you import eight, 10 million people, it's going to take the entire Trump presidency just
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to deport the people you let in, much less actually catch up to anything that was being
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And so the lesson coming from the Biden administration is ignore the courts, do what you want and
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And yet now that they see the shoe on the other foot, they're screaming bloody murder.
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Now, you and I might have a minor disagreement on the state of the rule of law, but ultimately
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the lesson for the left has to be very thoroughly.
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You play these games, you get to win the stupid prizes, because if there is no consequence,
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if we restrain ourselves and say, well, I guess we'll abide by all of the letter of the law
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and all the rulings that come down while the left just runs over with whoever they want,
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whenever they want, while they're in office, ultimately they're never going to change anything.
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Yeah, it's why I believe in what I call political mutually assured destruction.
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You know, it was it was the doctrine that we use to win the Cold War, where if the Soviet
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Union understood that if they so much as even thought about launching a missile at us, they
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would be destroyed thoroughly, entirely as a nation and as a people permanently for all
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time before their missiles even hit the ground.
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And that's actually a really healthy fear to have, because it helped govern and restrain some
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of the more militaristic and anti-American impulses they may have had at the time.
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They constantly had to ask, hey, is this worth all of us getting nuked over?
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And thankfully, every time they asked that question, the answer was no.
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We have to have the same effect on the left in politics.
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And for too long, we've had the right play this stupid game of, well, that's not who
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Well, yeah, that's why we're a bunch of losers.
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And it's it's why even when we win, we're not even allowed to turn the bolt back a little
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We're not allowed to do that in order to win in politics.
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The other side has to fear that you're going to do to them good and hard exactly what they
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And then and only then when they understand the pain of what they have done to your side
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the whole time, only then will they think, gosh, I don't know, guys, maybe this isn't
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And so one of my missions is to help the right understand that you don't win a gunfight by
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tying one arm arm behind your pack and then trying to have a fistfight with them.
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You have to fight on the same field according to the same rules and with the same desire
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to win that the left has, because if you don't, they are going to crush you.
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So in game theory, this is called tit for tat, right?
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And where you immediately feel the, you know, the consequence of your defection, we can go back
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to cooperating or things can get worse from there.
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But like there is no state of equilibrium that happens when one side follows the rules
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Like if you're defecting and I just say, well, I'm cooperating no matter what.
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And eventually you'll see how, what a good guy I am and how principled I am.
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Like, and, and this is something we don't have to like put in abstract modern language.
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It, it, the founders didn't believe that some magical mechanical aspect of the constitution
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They knew that men were not angels and to restrain their power, you need equal and opposite
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You need equal and opposite ambition and force to do that.
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So if someone steps out of line, you don't just point to the constitution and say, you broke
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Now you got to sit on the chair with the dunce cap.
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You come back at them and say, okay, you broke the rule.
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If you break the rule again, you get triple the consequence, right?
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Everyone understands this in social interactions, but for some reason, as soon as we get to the
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constitution, this principle just kind of fades away.
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And so like, I want people to understand that just having that level of reciprocity is not
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It's not some weird breaking of the norms or the rules.
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It's literally what you can read in the Federalist papers.
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And there's a, there's a scene from a movie I love.
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Unfortunately, it's a comic book movie, the most of which I think are stupid.
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There's a character in it named Rorschach who gets thrown in prison.
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The guy's a total psycho and he's being approached by a bunch of prisoners who are thinking they've
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What we need the left to understand is that the right as a whole has that mentality.
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Because once they understand that, all of the nonsense stops, all of the stupid games stop.
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And then suddenly you have something of a detente where you can all deal with each other equally
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on the same terms and with understanding of each side's incentives and behaviors.
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But, but our challenge on the right, which the left does not have, they actually have the
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Our challenge on the right is getting so many of these eggheads who think politics is an
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academic exercise to understand, no, there are rules of engagement here and there's things
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you have to do that are just basic human nature and instinct.
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And if you don't understand that, you are going to be a doormat forever.
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The left has the opposite problem, which is they're always trying to have to reign, having
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And it's why everything in this country for 100 to 150 years has moved the country slowly
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So what about the Trump administration's response so far?
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Obviously, we have the situation where that deportation flight had already been underway
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So a lot of people say it's in defiance of the ruling, but not really due to the timeline.
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Ultimately, do you feel like the Trump administration is prepared with a robust legal counteraction?
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Do you feel like they're willing to go ahead and continue in the face of what we think are
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Do you think that they are going to capitulate?
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Where do you see the administration at this moment?
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Well, the posture they seem to have right now is one that the president is not going to allow
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someone to lawlessly and illegally steal the powers of the presidency or prevent him from
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That's a very good posture to see because it tells you where they are fundamentally on the
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use of presidential power and on their deference to the Constitution, which only gives presidential
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I think they've pretty deftly handled it so far.
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In the example of this case with the Venezuelans, you had a judge trying to order aircraft around.
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Do you have any idea what that could have done?
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Did it have enough fuel only to land and come back?
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If you had ordered it to turn around, were you confident that would even be able to make
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But what they said in that case was, first off, when your written order, which is all
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that matters, came down, those planes were already outside of the United States.
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Number two, the president has authorities beyond statutory authorities given to him by a particular
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He has core war powers and core foreign policy powers that are not implicated by the law.
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And the judge has no authority to rebuke those.
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And so therefore, they argued, we actually didn't defy you at all.
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And where you did not have authority to do it, we did not recognize that authority.
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And so I don't think we're at the point yet where it's come to a head.
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It's going to come to a head, I think, as these progress and these judges are more and
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more emboldened by John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett's refusal to rein them in.
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And I think it's that refusal that's actually causing this constitutional crisis.
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It's not Trump doing things that presidents have done for almost 250 years.
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Well, Sean, I know that you had a limited amount of time to be with us today.
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So I thank you a lot for making the time while you could.
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Is there anything you want people to check out before you go?
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So if you want to be entertained and educated, follow along.
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You've definitely been tearing it up the last few days.
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So I appreciate you getting out there and fighting the good fight.
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All right, guys, obviously Sean will not be around to go through the questions of the
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So here we go from the top so you can actually hear my answers.
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And please make sure if you are a young man in New York City or you just want to find other
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conservatives so you can get together and do something positive, have good camaraderie.
00:36:51.280
I was addressing Philosophical Thirstworm's point about California, that ultimately California
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I think you can just look at the fact that you had Proposition 8, the will of the people,
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even in 2008, talking about how they were against gay marriage.
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It's just judicial fiat that ultimately advances their agenda.
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When I was talking about Robert Weinsfeld's super chats here, as he pointed out that the
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judiciary's ability to just override the president at any moment basically just obliterates all
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You get this amazing ability to override any and all constitutional concerns.
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When you just have the power of being a leftist, they'll cheer you on no matter what.
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So thank you very much, Friendly, for letting me know that I was muted there.
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CB also kind enough to let me know that I was muted while reading those.
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