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00:05:51.000I was telling your team prior to this, my goodness, when our team sees a Charlie Kirk lead per se come through, they are so excited to speak to these people.
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00:09:34.000But below the age of 18, I think it's perfectly legitimate to say that we won't allow genital mutilation or chemical castration through puberty blockers.
00:10:54.000And you wonder why Hispanics are becoming Republican.
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00:11:07.000Elon Musk says it's bizarre that we've come to this point where free speech used to be a liberal value, and yet we see from the left a desire to censor.
00:11:17.000It's bizarre that we've come to this point where, like, free speech used to be a left or liberal value, and yet we see from, you know, the in quotes left, a desire to actually censor.
00:11:33.000I mean, I think we should be extremely concerned about anything that undermines the First Amendment.
00:11:41.000There's a reason for the First Amendment.
00:11:42.000The First Amendment is because people came from countries where they could not speak freely and where saying certain things would get you thrown into prison.
00:11:52.000And they were like, well, we don't want that here.
00:12:10.000Elon Musk is coming on the right side talking about freedom of discourse and dialogue.
00:12:14.000Just any thoughts off the top on that short little riff that you had?
00:12:19.000You know, it's rare to see what we've been seeing in the last maybe, I don't know, it's five years, however many years.
00:12:26.000I mean, the one thing that all Americans agreed upon was that whether you agree with somebody's speech or not, we don't censor other people's speech.
00:12:36.000But obviously, as this sort of Marxist approach has begun to seep into our country, we've got all these people, including young people, who don't think you should protect all free speech.
00:12:48.000That goes against our country as great as almost anything I can think of.
00:12:53.000Freedom of religion, freedom of speech are kind of the cornerstone of this country.
00:13:23.000Well, what's been happening is, you know, they started, the left started with this extreme attempt to court pack to add four justices to the Supreme Court.
00:13:33.000This is the institution they do not totally control.
00:13:52.000And so their new approach, and there's been a bunch of articles on this, Charlie.
00:13:56.000They just had 30 of the leading progressive groups meet.
00:13:59.000This was in the Washington Post to figure out how they're going to change the courts.
00:14:03.000And what they've been doing recently is they want to criticize the court.
00:14:08.000They want to say they're unethical with the most baseless arguments you've ever seen.
00:14:14.000But the press just reads the headlines.
00:14:16.000And I saw a poll that they've already got 62% of the country thinking that the court only issues decisions based upon its politics.
00:14:25.000And so this ethical charge against Thomas is just bizarre.
00:14:29.000There have been rules about what justices have to report, and they just changed the rules recently to allow for more reporting.
00:14:39.000What they're doing is they're attacking Justice Thomas because in the past, before the rule changed, he didn't report things that he didn't have to report.
00:15:14.000One of the attacks on Justice Thomas was that in one of his reports, he reported a defunct group as receiving, as his wife receiving, income from.
00:15:26.000And they made it seem like there's some weird, you know, horrible, unethical thing.
00:15:31.000It just turned out they changed the name of the group from one year to the next.
00:15:35.000And so we're seeing, I could go through a litany.
00:15:38.000And they don't want to actually go through the potential ethics violations of Kagan or Sotomayor, right?
00:15:44.000This is directed just on the conservatives on the court.
00:15:48.000And it is going to be an interesting issue because the Senate says, hey, Supreme Court, listen to us.
00:15:55.000And I'm actually pleased to see all nine justices do this because, look, we don't want justices above the law.
00:16:01.000At the same time, we do not want a legislative body to be able to tell the Supreme Court what to do.
00:16:07.000That's never been part of the founders' intent.
00:16:09.000Kelly, I'm hearing in kind of SCOTUS blog and kind of in the inside community, also in some op-eds, that the Chevron deference, the Chevron doctrine, might be up and might actually be repealed.
00:16:23.000This is kind of a nerdy, wonky thing, but it's actually really important towards holding the administrative state accountable.
00:16:36.000If it's what we think it is, and they're about to throw out the Chevron deference approach, what it is is for years, and even the conservatives went along with this for a while and made, I think they eventually realized that was a mistake.
00:16:53.000But what it says is that, look, if you've got one of these unelected bureaucrats from these agencies or administrative state, that if they interpret a rule in a certain way, then unless it's just really unreasonable, the court's not allowed to mess with it.
00:17:11.000Well, I mean, that just gives them all this power to ruin people's lives and their businesses and everything else.
00:17:20.000And it's not something that Congress did.
00:17:23.000And all of a sudden, the court is not allowed to fix it.
00:17:26.000And it has created all this power in these unelected bureaucrats.
00:17:32.000And again, they've realized since this is not right.
00:17:35.000There's a separation of powers that make sense.
00:17:37.000The court is not going to disagree with Congress on a piece of legislation.
00:17:41.000They got to, you know, there's some deference there, but not to unelected bureaucrats.
00:17:47.000And what they've done is they've created this powerful administrative state as a result.
00:17:52.000And so when this gets flipped, which I think it will next term, we'll see.
00:17:56.000I mean, this is a major, major return of power to the people and away from these government bureaucrats.
00:18:04.000So, and I would tell people, this is like, you know, a lot of people get frustrated because the court's not doing what it wants to do, you know, really quickly or whatever.
00:18:12.000These are major things that the court's doing.
00:18:15.000I mean, you know, we have a case that's going to be decided in later June that I think is going to be a huge change on religious freedom in the workplace.
00:18:27.000What it is, is the quick summary is we've had a protection in the law for 50 years that is supposed to protect religious freedom in the workplace.
00:18:36.000But 46 years ago, a liberal Supreme Court just completely redefined the words in the statute in a way that's not honest.
00:18:45.000And the court all admitted in our oral argument a couple of weeks ago that it wasn't honest.
00:18:51.000And so they're about to restore a proper protection for people in the workplace.
00:18:57.000And think of what's going on all over the country because we're seeing these cases.
00:19:16.000Well, this will provide protection for every person of faith who has a different belief than the new woke beliefs to be able to stand on those beliefs.
00:19:26.000So the case is called Groff versus United States Postal Service.
00:19:31.000It's about a guy wanting to take a Sabbath day, but the implications are much bigger because it's about the definition of the protection we give people on religious freedom in the workplace.
00:19:55.000Lemon is the precedent that's been there for 50 years that has created all this hostility to religion that we've seen our whole lives, or even those of us who are older, our whole lives has been going on for 50, 60 years.
00:20:10.000And, you know, we asked them to reverse that.
00:20:13.000And it had been cited over 7,000 times, Charlie, in the last 50 years.
00:20:18.000Everything you've seen that has been sort of... government hostility to religion has been linked back to that lemon case.
00:20:51.000I mean, people have religious freedom as part of our country.
00:20:54.000So this is going to be a major shift that people are just going to start to see because they don't, 50 years of case law just got changed.
00:21:01.000So I just want people to remember when they think about the court, why is the left on such a jihad against the court?
00:21:09.000It's because they're really taking us back to our foundations as a country constitutionally.
00:21:15.000The Second Amendment and the New York case that they upheld last summer, the coach, everybody's so focused on Roby Wade, they've missed all these other things.
00:21:25.000And we're about to see Chevron deference, which is going to return all this power to the people and away from these unelected bureaucrats.
00:21:32.000So just realize the court is doing some major work and they're focusing on the Constitution, not the evolving Constitution that's this living document that they just make things up.
00:21:55.000And it's really causing the left to want to do everything in their power to delegitimize our courts and possibly even really destroy our courts and to put all the power into politics.
00:22:32.000But you said we're now living through one of the most exciting moments of religious liberty.
00:22:36.000We have a lot of pastors that watch this show.
00:22:39.000We have a lot of churchgoers that watch this show.
00:22:42.000Just really broaden it even more of this moment, the excitement that we should be feeling where we're having religious liberty momentum that wouldn't have been unheard of 20 years ago.
00:22:54.000Yeah, I've been doing this, all religious liberty cases for 34 years.
00:22:58.000And what we're living through now is not even just historic.
00:23:05.000Going back to Lemon, just to help people understand, our founders didn't want there to be a nationally established church that we all had to support.
00:23:13.000So there is a clause, one of the religion clauses, to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:23:18.000But this court 50 years ago said, no, it means a lot more than that.
00:23:22.000It means separation of church and state.
00:23:23.000So wherever government is, religion can't be.
00:24:01.000If my goal in life had been for them to take two of my cases sometime in my life, that would be a really stupid goal because it does not happen.
00:24:08.000Well, they didn't just take two of our cases.
00:24:10.000We won two landmark religious liberty cases within six days of each other.
00:24:15.000And we just argued another one two weeks ago that's going to be probably a change of a 46-year-old precedent that's been crushing religious freedom.
00:24:25.000So, what I said, and it's just objectively true.
00:24:28.000Every American alive right now has more religious freedom than they've ever had in their lifetime.
00:24:35.000And we're just at the beginning of this.
00:24:55.000And so, I mean, they ought to force the city council to vote on whether they want prayer if they're not having prayer.
00:25:01.000And let's put people on there who believe in a country with religious freedom and that we don't, religion is not some new pornography that can't be practiced in public.
00:25:14.000Texas is on its way to passing a new law that's going to put a 10 commandments in every classroom to help remind people the foundation of our Western civilization that they feel like now, oh, you can't talk about it.
00:25:30.000You can't talk about these parts of our history that are religious.
00:26:54.000And they told their employees, we love your feedback.
00:26:57.000Well, two of the flight attendants sent in and said, you know, I have real concerns about this because this would take away religious freedom, maybe even for my church or other organizations.
00:27:12.000And so this is a great example of this whole DEI approach where we want your opinions unless they're Christian opinions and then you're fired.
00:27:43.000And there's a bunch others just like it.
00:27:46.000And again, this case we argued two weeks ago at the Supreme Court, which will probably be handed down in June, could really increase the protection for religious freedom in the workplace and allow even more people to have protection from this type of abuse.
00:29:15.000Lawrenceville School in New Jersey is now admitting that it had fallen tragically short in its obligation to protect a young man, Jack Reed, who killed himself.
00:29:26.000Again, if our leaders were serious about problems happening in our country, they'd be talking about why are so many young people killing themselves?
00:29:32.000Now they're more worried about Ukraine and trans stuff.
00:29:36.000The school has acknowledged that bullying and unkind behavior and actions taken or not taken by the school likely contributed to Jack's death.
00:29:52.000The details make you sick to your stomach.
00:29:55.000He tucked a Bible into his gym shorts and a note into his pocket directing his parents to a Google document explaining his feelings of despair.
00:30:02.000It's just like hard to even say those words.
00:30:08.000During a secret Santa gift exchange among his classmates, Jack was given a rape whistle together with a book of How to Make Friends.
00:30:14.000The school secretly investigated these rumors, determined they were completely false, but took no action at all to prevent the bullying or the lies being told because there were made-up rumors that he was a campus rapist.
00:30:28.000The school, because he's obviously a white male, why would they go out of their way to try to exonerate him?
00:30:34.000They drugged their feet and he killed himself in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
00:30:40.000I mean, a lawsuit could probably destroy the school.
00:30:44.000I hope his parents ask for a billion dollars and raid the endowment.
00:30:49.000If you tell lies from the right side of politics, you are nearly immune, especially against white people.
00:30:58.000There's a similar story from the University of Virginia, which thankfully I do not think includes anybody killing themselves, but you wouldn't be shocked if it did.
00:31:08.000So a black BLM activist who looks like Job of the Hutt named Zianna Bryant falsely accused a white girl at the University of Virginia.
00:31:17.000And again, I'm not trying to like trivialize the weight here.
00:31:27.000So she falsely accused a white UVA student named Morgan Bedtinger of wanting to run over BLM protesters while her car was surrounded by a mob at a BLM protest in the summer of 2020.
00:31:41.000She was formerly sanctioned by UVA, expelled in because of it from the university, but two separate investigations concluded a year later that it never happened.
00:31:50.000So, this white girl gets expelled from UVA because of a lie of an obese black person.
00:31:58.000Ziana went on to have a successful career in glowing profiles in media outlets, while Morgan's life was completely destroyed, including her plan to attend law school.
00:32:08.000This came six years after her father, a former police officer, died of cancer.
00:32:14.000This black person gets away with the whole thing and destroys it on a total hoax.
00:32:19.000Not to mention, in Stanford, there's another Stanford race hoax.
00:32:26.000So, a year ago, you might remember, Stanford University investigates noose found on campus, on campus tree, as hate crime.
00:32:44.000In fact, there were administrators at Stanford University that were just making stuff up.
00:32:55.000You see, when you subsidize something, you get more of something.
00:33:01.000We have a supply and demand problem with racism, but it just so happens the upside of being a victim of racism or being a victim of a white male rapist is very high.
00:33:13.000So, they just make it up, Jussie Smollett style.
00:33:17.000So, we have race hoax after race hoax, and it targets innocent young people that are never able to defend themselves.
00:33:24.000And Jack Reed is dead because of it, killed himself.
00:33:29.000UVA, they nearly destroyed her life, took years for her to get her record straight, and the black activist gets away with it.
00:33:40.000This is only accelerating in its ferocity: the end of due process, the end of checks and balances, the complete erosion and deterioration of decent norms.
00:33:55.000Wokeness elevates the most disgusting, dishonest people because wokeness itself is dishonest and disgusting.
00:34:04.000In the simplest way, we now have ideology that is consistent with the people pushing the ideology.
00:34:12.000When you have sick and disgusting ideology, you're gonna have sick and disgusting people, and that's what props it up.
00:34:17.000And they have to fight fiercely for it because what other system would ever give these people money and status?
00:34:25.000The answer is nothing, but they call it equity.
00:34:29.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:31.000Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:34.000Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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