The Charlie Kirk Show - June 30, 2026


Birthright Blues


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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

171.5

Word count

706

Sentence count

53

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

5

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Justice Samuel Alito announces his retirement from the Supreme Court, and Justice Clarence Thomas announces his plans to step down too. What does this mean for the future of the court, and who will replace him? We talk to Mike Davis of the Article 3 Project and Nina Totenberg of the National Constitution Center about who could replace him.

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00:00:00.000 And then Dianne Feinstein has that clip where she says, The dogma lives loudly within you, goes very viral.
00:00:06.000 A lot of people are very much going to her defense.
00:00:08.000 And it was almost just, it was baked in at that point practically that if we lose RBG, if Bayer Ginsburg leaves, this would be who Trump would replace.
00:00:18.000 I think even Trump himself signaled that would be the case.
00:00:21.000 And I guess it's just a good warning.
00:00:22.000 You have to be careful about these things because even if you took the position, we need to have a woman to replace RBG, there actually were other options out there who had a longer track record. 0.86
00:00:33.000 On immigration, on citizenship type questions that showed they were good on that. 1.00
00:00:38.000 And we just have to have new litmus tests for judges going forward that we're sure that new people are going to pass.
00:00:47.000 And that's just part of the ordeal of politics, so to speak.
00:00:51.000 We had 50 years of overturn row litmus tests.
00:00:54.000 We need new ones in place ASAP.
00:00:58.000 So this brings us to the next question, though.
00:01:00.000 NPR publishes this.
00:01:04.000 I guess erroneous report that Samuel Alito, who he and Clarence Thomas are the standard bearers, if you're conservative on the court, don't want to lose him, but they're both in their mid to late 70s.
00:01:15.000 They're getting older, so NPR says he's retiring.
00:01:18.000 Then they retract it.
00:01:20.000 NPR, you got the image here, retracts the story, right?
00:01:24.000 There you go.
00:01:25.000 But this kind of signals like there's something in the ether.
00:01:29.000 What are you hearing, Mike Davis, about Alito's future, Clarence Thomas' future?
00:01:35.000 And what work is being done now to make sure that the replacements are in their mold?
00:01:41.000 Well, look, either of them are irreplaceable.
00:01:45.000 I love both of them.
00:01:46.000 Justice Thomas is our greatest justice of all time.
00:01:49.000 He has told me he's going out feet first.
00:01:52.000 And I have told him make sure that he dies during a Republican president and a Republican senate, to which he laughs with his loud laugh. 0.84
00:02:00.000 But Justice Alito, look, he's Italian.
00:02:03.000 I went to an Italian Catholic school. 1.00
00:02:05.000 Italians invaded my Irish family. 1.00
00:02:07.000 They lived to be like 200. 1.00
00:02:08.000 This guy's in good health.
00:02:10.000 I have no concerns about Alito's health.
00:02:12.000 I don't want Alito to leave because we need adult supervision at the Supreme Court.
00:02:18.000 We need nine Alitos, we need nine Thomases, and they just don't exist.
00:02:23.000 And so we need to look, I have come up with a long list of justices.
00:02:32.000 Many of them are great, but no one is going to be as great as Justice Thomas or Justice Alito ever.
00:02:37.000 Well, that's depressing.
00:02:38.000 I know that a ton of energy has gone into this in certain circles.
00:02:43.000 To make sure, I mean, what are the precedents for justices sort of handpicking?
00:02:47.000 I know this has happened before where they sort of handpick their successor.
00:02:51.000 If you had to throw out three or four names of people that we should, that people in this audience should look for and look out for in the future, who would you name?
00:02:59.000 Let me just say this just to give a broader perspective.
00:03:03.000 We have this whole idea of textualism and originalism.
00:03:06.000 Textualism got us to 14th Amendment constitutionalized birthright citizenship.
00:03:13.000 With Amy Coney Barrett.
00:03:14.000 So I think this whole textualism, originalism thing, we need to rethink.
00:03:20.000 We need nine Alitos.
00:03:21.000 We need nine Clarence Thomas's.
00:03:23.000 And so, look, I have a long list of 26 potential nominees to the Supreme Court that I have shared with the president and his top people.
00:03:33.000 But the people who I think would be great are people like John Sauer, who's the Solicitor General of the United States, or Judge Eileen Cannon.
00:03:43.000 Down in Florida, or Judge Amo Bove, who just got put on the Third Circuit.
00:03:48.000 There are many, but people like that who are bold and fearless are not going to worry about what Nina Totenberg at NPR thinks about them.
00:03:56.000 Mike Davis, Article 3 Project.
00:03:57.000 Thank you, my friend.
00:03:58.000 We'll see you soon.
00:03:59.000 Thank you.
00:04:03.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.