The Charlie Kirk Show - The National Injunction Crisis, Brought To You By the Democrats

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:00.000 We are in a midst of a nationwide injunction crisis.

00:00:04.000 What do we do about it?

00:00:04.000 Do we ignore the orders?

00:00:05.000 Do we impeach the judges?

00:00:07.000 We go through all of it with Ben Whitegarten and I comments on this extensively.

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00:01:26.000 We have a serious problem, everybody.

00:01:28.000 There is a major issue happening that could significantly slow down President Trump's mandate.

00:01:38.000 I don't like using the C word unnecessarily, but we are living in a crisis.

00:01:45.000 We are now living in a crisis that is a constitutional crisis.

00:01:49.000 It is a crisis of the nationwide injunction.

00:01:53.000 America has almost 700 district court judges.

00:01:59.000 They are the lowest level of the federal judiciary.

00:02:03.000 So you've got 700 people in black robes.

00:02:06.000 Every one of them sits in one of 994 judicial districts covering a single state or even a small part of a state.

00:02:20.000 Normally, the jurisdiction of these judges is supposed to cover the area of their district.

00:02:26.000 But a nationwide injunction is when one of these judges issues an order and commands that it be implemented all across the country.

00:02:35.000 Now, these used to be exceedingly rare.

00:02:38.000 These always used to be used maybe a couple times for an entire presidency.

00:02:43.000 For example, when George W. Bush was president for eight years, he was only hit with nationwide injunctions six times.

00:02:54.000 Obama, president for eight years, was hit with 12 nationwide injunctions.

00:03:01.000 The first Trump administration 64 times.

00:03:05.000 Now, that's more than half of all the injunctions since the 1960s.

00:03:09.000 Now, allow me to explain this to a fourth grader, because we got some very young listeners on this program.

00:03:16.000 A nationwide injunction is like a rule.

00:03:21.000 Imagine if one kid in a class told the teacher that a new rule was unfair and the teacher decided to stop using that rule for everyone in the whole school indefinitely, not just for that one kid.

00:03:37.000 That is the best way that I could explain a nationwide injunction.

00:03:40.000 It stops the function, the action, and the order and the power of the President of the United States.

00:03:49.000 President Trump has had more nationwide injunctions in the past two months than Joe Biden had in his entire term.

00:03:59.000 Let me say that again.

00:04:01.000 President Trump has had more nationwide injunctions in the past two months than Joe Biden had in his entire presidency.

00:04:12.000 60 days, not even, four years.

00:04:17.000 These nationwide injunctions have been to prevent, for example, the defunding of USAID.

00:04:23.000 Perfectly constitutional for President Trump to do that.

00:04:26.000 You must spend the money.

00:04:28.000 You must give condoms to people of Gaza. 1.00

00:04:30.000 You must fund Sesame Street in Iraq. 0.93

00:04:35.000 These judges have moved to prevent the deportation of gang members from Venezuela.

00:04:41.000 Just last night, a judge said the military can't block transgender people from joining the military.

00:04:50.000 So President Trump is no longer in charge of the armed forces.

00:04:53.000 President Trump is no longer in charge of movements of who is in the military.

00:04:57.000 What they are doing is they are slowly enveloping and eating and marching within the federal government and on the presidency.

00:05:11.000 Many of these orders are flagrantly illegal.

00:05:15.000 For example, it is well established that the military can decide who it enlists because that rests in a single person, the commander-in-chief.

00:05:27.000 So if transgender people were banned before Obama and they were banned in Trump's first term, he obviously can do it. 1.00

00:05:35.000 Doesn't matter.

00:05:36.000 The judge comes in and says it's not allowed.

00:05:39.000 This is cut 158 up on screen.

00:05:42.000 This is the order.

00:05:43.000 District Court judge orders the U.S. military to continue enlisting mentally delusional transgender people justifying their decision and quoting the musical Hamilton.

00:05:53.000 That's where we're at.

00:05:54.000 Literally, quoting the musical Hamilton.

00:05:59.000 This is in the footnotes of a federal judge.

00:06:02.000 These are the people that are running your government right now.

00:06:04.000 They're quoting a musical.

00:06:06.000 Not a joke.

00:06:07.000 Footnote. Footnote 5. Women were included in the sequel when passage of the 19th Amendment granted them the right to vote. 0.96

00:06:16.000 See Lynn Manuel Miranda, Miranda, Hamilton, a musical.

00:06:21.000 So now that we are trying to protect our military from transgender people from coming in and potentially causing discord, chaos, and confusion, the federal judge that is saying, no, you can't do that, is using a musical as their legal justification. 0.99

00:06:43.000 You voted for President Trump, but an oligarchy is standing in the way, a legal oligarchy.

00:06:50.000 to prevent President Trump's rightful constitutional authority.

00:06:55.000 Over the last 100 years, power has been concentrated in two places.

00:07:01.000 It has been concentrated in the unelected bureaucracy and the unelected judiciary, the administrative state, and the black robe regimen of legal oligarchs that thwart the will of the American people.

00:07:20.000 This... is what the downfall of a republic looks like.

00:07:26.000 It is a black robe coup.

00:07:28.000 So what is the plan?

00:07:30.000 Well, there's many options that can be pursued.

00:07:33.000 The first of which is you can pursue impeachment.

00:07:37.000 It's probably not a good idea.

00:07:38.000 First of all, you don't have the votes.

00:07:40.000 Second of all, it will only probably embolden other judges to act even more crazily.

00:07:45.000 Probably not a good idea.

00:07:49.000 In many cases, these judges don't ever plan for their orders to hold up at a higher level.

00:07:54.000 Their plan is, this is the key, to block and to hinder and to delay.

00:08:01.000 If it takes a year or two years to get the case through the Supreme Court, that's two wasted years for this administration that they hate.

00:08:10.000 They're trying to run out the clock.

00:08:13.000 Meanwhile, they're trying to send their shock troops to go burn more Teslas, to go swat more conservative influencers and radio hosts.

00:08:24.000 to go send more of their shock troops into the streets.

00:08:27.000 These judges are trying to buy time for the paramilitary arm of the Democrat Party to create more chaos in the streets, to slow down President Trump's mandate given to him by the American people.

00:08:41.000 This is an orchestrated hit at the core of our republic.

00:08:47.000 If it takes a year or even two years, some of these cases, by the way, could take three to four years now to work through the courts.

00:08:53.000 That's what a nationwide injunction does. 1.00

00:08:55.000 It stops everything.

00:08:59.000 And by the way, did you notice that conservative judges refuse to do this very much under Joe Biden?

00:09:04.000 Because we actually have respect for the Constitution.

00:09:07.000 We believe in Article 2 powers.

00:09:10.000 You see, while we're being principled, the Democrats, they're not principled.

00:09:13.000 They're power hungry.

00:09:15.000 And they know that they don't have power right now.

00:09:17.000 So they're using the last thing at their disposal.

00:09:21.000 The unelected black robe regime.

00:09:27.000 This is all about slowing down President Trump to slow down the inevitable.

00:09:33.000 This is a crisis, a crisis of a nationwide injunction.

00:09:38.000 The Democrat Party's approval rating is the lowest it has ever been of any political party since the advent of polling.

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00:09:47.000 This is all they have left.

00:09:49.000 is a small handful of hyper-elite, college-educated, academic, lawyerly, black robe wearing smug oligarchs, stopping your ability to have a voice in your government. 0.81

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00:11:08.000 When we look to other countries and we wonder, why is it that even though their people want something and they don't get it, it's typically because of an out-of-control judiciary.

00:11:19.000 Two countries in particular, Israel and Brazil, have been experiencing this, where they have this philosopher king infrastructure of black robe wearing judges that have power to usurp that of the people.

00:11:38.000 to overturn what the sovereign want.

00:11:43.000 And they really ask the question, who is the sovereign in America?

00:11:46.000 Is it the people?

00:11:47.000 And for a while, we've been told it to people, but it's very clear that we are actually on a mission to reclaim the promise of the framers of this great country.

00:11:56.000 That is what this is all about.

00:11:59.000 So what do we do about this?

00:12:01.000 Honestly, we're trying to figure that out.

00:12:04.000 This is a very difficult situation.

00:12:08.000 The key is not to rush in anything.

00:12:10.000 I'll be honest.

00:12:11.000 My instinct is defy it.

00:12:14.000 But sometimes your instinct is not always right.

00:12:16.000 Sometimes that is your emotion.

00:12:21.000 So we're going to kind of take a step back.

00:12:22.000 And if we end up with that conclusion, then we will use our reason and our logos to get there.

00:12:30.000 So we've got to take a step back.

00:12:31.000 You can't allow your emotions and your passions to lead you towards something.

00:12:37.000 This consequential, because this is never happened before in American history.

00:12:40.000 Can you write that down?

00:12:42.000 Mail it to yourself, deliver it, text it to a friend?

00:12:45.000 Never happened before.

00:12:46.000 George Bush had six injunctions.

00:12:48.000 Donald Trump has, how many total injunctions does President Trump have right now?

00:12:53.000 I think it's well over 100.

00:12:55.000 There are a lot of good ideas out there right now.

00:12:57.000 For example, we could create an expedited appeals process for nationwide injunctions.

00:13:03.000 So they go to the Supreme Court as quickly as possible.

00:13:07.000 We could also make it so that lawsuits seeking nationwide injunctions are assigned to random judges or a random panel of judges.

00:13:17.000 Right now, political activists will pick the friendliest judge they can anywhere in the country and they judge shop and venue shop.

00:13:28.000 Almost any fix like this would require getting through Congress, which, as you know, Congress hasn't done anything.

00:13:34.000 What are they doing?

00:13:35.000 They've passed one bill, the Lake and Riley Act and a CR.

00:13:38.000 They've got to start producing.

00:13:40.000 Pressure is on you guys.

00:13:42.000 President Trump is here.

00:13:43.000 He's getting enjoined.

00:13:44.000 He's solving a war.

00:13:45.000 He's running the Kennedy Center.

00:13:47.000 He's doing strikes on Houthis.

00:13:50.000 Meanwhile, you've got to get your act together, Congress.

00:13:52.000 Enough. Enough yammering and catawalling.

00:13:55.000 We got to start seeing some real legislation here.

00:13:59.000 Almost any fix that would require getting Congress to pass new bill, we have to consider, I don't even want to get into this.

00:14:08.000 John Thune and Mike Johnson forget it.

00:14:10.000 Nothing's going to happen.

00:14:12.000 So now we have to consider the highest of all the options.

00:14:15.000 And let's talk about it.

00:14:17.000 I'm not even saying it's a good idea.

00:14:18.000 I'm not endorsing it, but it must be entertained to ignore some of these orders.

00:14:27.000 To be clear, we have not done that yet.

00:14:30.000 The Trump administration has bent over backwards not to do that.

00:14:35.000 These courts have engaged in absurd behavior.

00:14:39.000 And President Trump has avoided everything possible to ignore a judge's order.

00:14:44.000 That's why we've had all the drama with the Trend de Aragua flights.

00:14:47.000 They were flown out as quickly as possible so that the planes would be over international waters before a judge could invent a fake justification to demand that we must keep foreign gang murders in the United States.

00:14:58.000 But what if stunts like this aren't enough?

00:15:00.000 Well, for now, the plan is to appeal things up the chain.

00:15:03.000 The ball is in the Supreme Court right now.

00:15:06.000 Justice Clarence Thomas has pointed out that this tyranny of nationwide injunctions is brand new.

00:15:12.000 It didn't exist 70 years ago.

00:15:14.000 It didn't exist 20 years ago.

00:15:16.000 The Supreme Court could fix this by saying, hey, actually a district court judge can only issue rulings in their district or they can issue a nationwide injunction in this narrow set of circumstances.

00:15:27.000 But eventually, we may have a case that is so important in order can't be followed.

00:15:33.000 A judge might say, hey, America has to let in all the millions of people you want to enter America.

00:15:38.000 You can't stop them, open the borders. 0.56

00:15:40.000 If that happens, then President Trump should be ready to say, That order is unconstitutional, and I, as commander-in-chief and guardian of the nation's borders, will not follow it.

00:15:51.000 And I don't say this lightly.

00:15:53.000 Ignoring a district court should be the last resort, but they are pushing us in that corner.

00:15:59.000 It should only be done in the most extreme circumstances with the most outrageous.

00:16:06.000 Beyond the pale rulings by a renegade district court judge.

00:16:10.000 If we do it in one case, we should not automatically do it in others.

00:16:13.000 You must be very careful which ones you do it with.

00:16:16.000 But these people are pushing President Trump in a corner.

00:16:21.000 And remember, the only court that is defined in the Constitution is the Supreme Court.

00:16:26.000 President Trump has a mandate from the American people, not district court judges.

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00:17:36.000 We're in the midst of a national injunction crisis.

00:17:39.000 Let's be specific.

00:17:40.000 National injunction crisis.

00:17:43.000 Joining us now is a very smart guest and deep thinker on this.

00:17:48.000 Ben Whitegarten.

00:17:49.000 Ben, welcome to the program.

00:17:50.000 Ben, what is your take on this flurry of nationwide injunctions?

00:17:55.000 Well, I think we are witnessing a constitutional crisis, and it's the exact opposite of the one that the left and regime media would have us believe.

00:18:05.000 The crisis is that anyone of around 700 federal judges can usurp the power of the presidency, can micromanage details down to whether or not to turn flights of deported terrorists around,

00:18:22.000 or what employees of the president are able to access which systems in the Treasury Department up to initially, by the way, the Secretary of the Treasury himself, Scott Besant, and a whole slew of rulings where you have judges deciding to halt policies to protect,

00:18:40.000 purportedly protect, not just the people bringing in the lawsuits, and these are generally Democrat states, left-wing NGOs and plaintiffs, But to protect and prohibit the president from enforcing his policies on anyone everywhere.

00:18:58.000 And the overreach and the abuse of these judges is happening on such a scale and at a historic rate.

00:19:08.000 that this demands there be a response, first from the Supreme Court, and we can talk about the fact that Chief Justice Roberts basically said, you're not going to get that response yesterday.

00:19:17.000 And if not the Supreme Court, the branch of government that created these Article III lower courts in the first place, and that's the legislative branch.

00:19:26.000 And that involves, first of all, potentially, getting rid of these universal injunctions by law, and then there are more extreme remedies as well.

00:19:34.000 I mean, but let's be honest, Ben, Congress is not going to do anything.

00:19:37.000 So then what's the plan?

00:19:39.000 Well, let me say this.

00:19:41.000 I reported pretty extensively at real clear investigations, and I came in with that same perspective that you have of can't expect the legislative branch to do anything, which is a major problem, by the way, because that's where these issues ought to be hashed out, if anywhere.

00:19:55.000 Prove me wrong or enlighten me.

00:19:57.000 So recently, out of the House Judiciary Committee, a bill passed that would prohibit nationwide injunctions, unless you have multiple states bringing a case, calling for it, and when multiple states call for it, then you get a three-judge panel at least, not one radical in robes to make a decision, and then it can quickly be appealed to the Supreme Court.

00:20:18.000 and dealt with.

00:20:19.000 I'm told that that's very likely going to pass in the House.

00:20:23.000 And then the question is going to become the Senate.

00:20:25.000 And notably, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley, has said he's concerned about these universal injunctions.

00:20:32.000 He told me, his office told me they're going to have a hearing on this issue soon.

00:20:37.000 And Senator Mike Lee, who sits on judiciary, has been like a hawk on this matter, also on matters of impeachment, by the way.

00:20:45.000 And he's going to put forth legislation that would curtail these injunctions.

00:20:49.000 So whether or not it passes the House and then the Senate and then the president signs it, let me just say that the fact that the legislative branch is acting on this alone should cause the courts to respond.

00:21:04.000 And my concern, based upon Chief Justice Roberts' outrageous, in my view, an unprecedented, extraordinary statement yesterday, responding to the president and others on impeaching, Judge Bosberg and others, is the second sentence that he writes in this three-line statement is you got to let the normal, regular appellate process play out.

00:21:28.000 That's how we deal with these things, not impeachment.

00:21:31.000 That implies that he is willing to let cases ripen in the lower courts while the judiciary, the rule of law, and our constitutional order rots.

00:21:43.000 So what scares me about that statement beyond the fact he has no business opining on impeachment, which is a legislative matter and is a political remedy, not a judicial one, is he doesn't think that there's a five alarm fire apparently.

00:21:58.000 He's perfectly content to let the lower court judges paralyze the presidency, and let the cases make their way up through regular course and regular order.

00:22:09.000 And the caveat here is that the Trump administration itself has asked the Supreme Court to answer this question.

00:22:13.000 Are universal injunctions illegal?

00:22:15.000 Or are they a massive overstep that's unconstitutional, unlawful, and disastrous for the country?

00:22:21.000 That is being brought before the Supreme Court in the administration's challenge of universal injunctions, halting the birthright citizenship executive order, curtailing birthright citizenship.

00:22:33.000 And the responses from those who are calling for that order to be halted and who got those injunctions issued are due on April 4th.

00:22:40.000 So we're going to learn within the next couple weeks, Whether Chief Justice Roberts' statement implies that there's no sense of urgency here, and that means the court is not prepared to act on universal injunctions, or the court is going to step up and step in on a matter that plagued the Trump I presidency is plaguing the Trump two presidency to an unprecedented degree and really threatens to paralyze the entire republic.

00:23:04.000 Right. I mean, but the Senate holding a hearing doesn't do anything, right?

00:23:08.000 I mean, and they're not going to pass anything.

00:23:09.000 They just talk all day long.

00:23:11.000 So do you think it's time potentially to just ignore some of these injunctions?

00:23:16.000 I think that there, we are best headed towards that decision.

00:23:20.000 And it's worth noting that the critics of the administration, they say he's going to defy orders, etc.

00:23:26.000 It's been remarkable.

00:23:28.000 the patience and restraint that the administration has pursued thus far.

00:23:32.000 So they're asking the Supreme Court to rule on universal injunctions.

00:23:36.000 At least three Supreme Court justices have called on the courts previously to rule on their legality.

00:23:42.000 The Biden administration, the outgoing Biden administration, called on the Supreme Court to rule on their legality.

00:23:49.000 And Justice Gorsuch reiterated in January of this year that the court really needs to act on this.

00:23:54.000 Justice Alito, so this makes four.

00:23:57.000 rebuke the Supreme Court for not smacking down Judge Amira Lee, also in the D.C. district, like Judge Boasburg, for not halting his order, universal injunction, unappealable, that not only halted the administration's pause on foreign aid, but forced it to disperse foreign aid at $2 billion within 36 hours.

00:24:20.000 So if you have...

00:24:21.000 say four of nine Supreme Court justices demanding this, it has to come to a head soon.

00:24:28.000 And the only way that I see Roberts being able to squeeze his way out of what's coming before him in the immediate term is in basically arguing, well, this isn't the right case to challenge.

00:24:40.000 universal actions or it's not at a stage of the case where you can challenge it.

00:24:42.000 But I think that's going to cause an outcry from other members of the judiciary.

00:24:47.000 And the Trump administration is doing other things as well.

00:24:50.000 Like, for example, they just issued a memorandum that demands that when they're litigating against these plaintiffs, they require as the law requires, as federal civil procedure requires, that if you're going to call for an injunction, you have to put up an injunction bond.

00:25:05.000 Judges have not been ordering that these bonds be put up.

00:25:08.000 In one case, I saw a judge asked the plaintiffs to put up $100 per plaintiff as an injunction bond on an injunction that's freezing the policy for the entire country.

00:25:19.000 So that's another fight, a lower fight, a subordinate fight, but an important one on this issue that's quickly going to work its way through the courts, I think, as well.

00:25:29.000 To the point that you're asking, that we even are at a place where you have to ask, should an administration ignore a lower court's ruling because it's so lawless and it does so much damage to our country and to the Constitution, that tells you where the crisis is right now.

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00:26:41.000 So, Ben, I know that even the entertaining of defying these nationwide injunctions is a big lift and is something that has never happened before in, I don't want to say never in American history, but ever since the advent of the injunction, we have not seen this.

00:26:57.000 Do you have any indication the Supreme Court is going to step up and restore order to this chaotic moment?

00:27:04.000 The only way that I see it happening, and ironically, this might be because in part of Chief Justice Roberts' statement yesterday is that certain lower court judges overstep to such a large degree that not for the right reasons on the merits,

00:27:21.000 but to protect the institution of the judiciary, Chief Justice Roberts realizes that that these radical jurists in robes pose a far greater threat than the people who are criticizing them and calling for there to be legislative action, including potentially impeaching them because they're acting in such a lawless way.

00:27:43.000 I wouldn't put anything past the Supreme Court, but I do think that Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, is as sensitive as anyone to defending the institution.

00:27:53.000 And it could be that because of the overreaching that we're going to see as a consequence of him saying, let's let things work through a regular order, that might counterintuitively actually force the issue.

00:28:07.000 But the bottom line is that these are also political questions, and I'm sure what the left's strategy here is, is push the president as far as you possibly can, try and force him to defy a court or threaten to defy a court, and then use that as a rationale for impeachment.

00:28:24.000 And then even if they're going to lose on impeachment and lose really badly, because by the way, the Democrats here are basically saying, We want to defend the rights of deported Trennairagua terrorists.

00:28:33.000 We want to support the rights of all manner of bad actors, corrupt actors, people who are wasting billions of our taxpayer dollars.

00:28:40.000 And that's going to be a losing political fight.

00:28:42.000 But still, the energy, the resources, the time, All of that would serve to sabotage and subvert the president's agenda.

00:28:50.000 And that's why I think we've seen such restraint from the administration so far.

00:28:54.000 They don't want to step into the trap of getting sucked into impeachments at the wazoo and all manner of other attacks on the presidency.

00:29:03.000 But they also don't want this momentum to stop.

00:29:05.000 And that is precisely why Democrats have chosen the courts as the venue to execute this lawfare 2.0 operation because it takes it out of the hands of our representatives and makes these non-political questions even though they're being adjudicated by hyper political and zealous actors.

00:29:24.000 Ben, you are the editor-at-large at Real Clear Investigates.com.

00:29:28.000 Anything you're working on, you want our audience to be aware of, stories that you're following, or things of interest.

00:29:33.000 Well, in the future, I'm going to be testifying down on the hill.

00:29:38.000 I can report some further details of that.

00:29:40.000 I'll let it be known via my substack, winegarden.substack.com.

00:29:44.000 Stay tuned as this story is fast unfolding.

00:29:46.000 And there are people on the hill whose hair is on fire.

00:29:49.000 People who you would not have expected would be up in arms and willing to go to the lance that some are threatening here.

00:29:55.000 This is fast coming to a head, so stay tuned for my further reporting.

00:29:58.000 And I'll be writing about Chief Justice Roberts' statement yesterday as well, coming up soon, likely in the Federalist.

00:30:03.000 And I mean, this is going to come to a very aggressive head, and it already is, especially when it involves the president's ability to conduct foreign policy.

00:30:14.000 You're absolutely right.

00:30:15.000 And this is the area where the president has the most latitude because he has to.

00:30:18.000 The whole purpose of the president was limited set of authorities, but to be able to have wide latitude and act vigorously where you need these decisions to be concentrated in the hands of one person.

00:30:29.000 And we're talking about matters of war and peace here, where the courts have no earthly business micromanaging operations of deporting terrorists in this country.

00:30:39.000 If you have judges that are going to be generals, be secretaries of state, be secretaries of Homeland Security, head of the Office of Management and Budget, OPM, and beyond, then we cease to have a country anymore.

00:30:52.000 And that is what is at stake in this battle right now.

00:30:55.000 Ben, thanks so much for your work.

00:30:56.000 Really appreciate it.

00:30:57.000 Talk to you soon.

00:30:58.000 Thanks for having me.

00:30:59.000 Email us, freedom at charliecirk.com, and subscribe to our podcast.

00:31:04.000 The fight in front of us is one that we are going to win.

00:31:07.000 It's a question of how we go about it.

00:31:10.000 The domestic terror campaign against Tesla right now is remarkable.

00:31:16.000 Despite all, this Tesla stock is up today.

00:31:19.000 The Democrats are a movement of destruction, incineration, terrorism, That is your Democrat Party burning electric cars across the country.

00:31:29.000 A lot of these guys are going to face 20, 30, 40 years in prison.

00:31:35.000 And we are not going to take kindly to the actions of electric car crystal knock.

00:31:43.000 I am curious to see how widespread this becomes, but based on the latest report in the Democrat Party is less popular than we've ever seen them.

00:31:51.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:31:52.000 Everybody, email us as always, Freedom at Charliekirk.com.

00:31:55.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 19, 2025

The National Injunction Crisis, Brought To You By the Democrats

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