Ep 255 | Will Violent Activists Go to Jail? DOJ’s Harmeet Dhillon UNLEASHED | The Glenn Beck Podcast       Â
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Civil Rights attorney Harmeet Dylan Harmeet joins me to talk about her new role as the new Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. She talks about why the Deep state is losing control of the civil rights division of the DOJ, and why it s time to wake up.
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responsible for a bloodbath in the civil rights division of the doj she says not so much
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the aclu says she has a long record of working to restrict voting rights transgender rights and
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abortion access no the naacp calls her a grave threat to democracy i don't even know who she is and i love
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her already right she's the woman who will wrestle back that one piece of the doj from the clutches of
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wokeness and that has the deep state quaking in its boots welcome to the nationally recognized civil rights
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constitutional law attorney tough as nails good friend of the program the new assistant attorney
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general for civil rights at the u.s department of justice if you think the doj isn't doing anything
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yet let me introduce you to my friend harmeet dylan
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harmeet i am thrilled to have you on uh you are you're the perfect person at the doj for civil rights
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uh because you're uh a machine uh and you have your toughest nails and i'm thrilled that this is a
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position you're in for anybody who doesn't know what is the office of civil rights at the doj what is
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it supposed to do well it's a it's a very important part of the civil rights um movement in the sense that
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out of the civil rights movement came this enforcement arm to enforce all of the federal civil rights laws
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so you know dating back to desegregation the civil rights division was in charge of enforcing
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those laws that desegregated the south and other areas we're also in charge of making sure that
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citizens aren't uh unduly the subject of police brutality or violence or illegal police practices
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we protect veterans rights we enforce the americans with disabilities act we enforce the federal civil
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rights laws relating to housing and employment and anti-discrimination and education and importantly
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we also enforce federal voting statutes help america vote act uh nvra and the voting rights act and so
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um it's it's a lot it's a huge uh portfolio and uh within that there's so many different
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emphases and ways that the department of justice can make lives better for american citizens or make
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lives miserable for a few disabled people so um i have heard since you got on it is it was described
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by uh an official at the uh senior attorney said that it was a bloodbath that's happening now uh at
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the doj under you what what what is it what do they mean by that well i mean it's a colorful rhetoric
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and none of these people had the guts to uh attach their names to these colorful quotes but what
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what people in the private sector would call a severance package proposal um offered to federal
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government officials almost throughout the entire federal government many people in the civil rights
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division have chosen to take that generous severance package which pays them for several months
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while they do nothing i mean i wish someone would pay me several months to do nothing but i
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i actually have never had that opportunity uh no one has been fired by me since i came
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for this is like my 15th day on the job but what we have made very clear uh last week in memos to
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each of the 11 sections in the civil rights division is that our priorities under president trump
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are going to be somewhat different than they were under president biden and we start with the
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statutory basis because that's where you always start as a lawyer in the constitution and then we
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tell them these are the president's priorities this is what we will be focusing on you know govern
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govern yourself accordingly and um on mass dozens and now over 100 attorneys decided that they'd rather
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not do what their job requires them to do and i think that's fine because we don't want people in the
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federal government who feel like it's their pet project to go persecute you know police departments
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based on statistical evidence or persecute people praying outside abortion facilities instead of
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doing violence that's not the job here the job here is to enforce the federal civil rights laws not
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woke ideology and so you know that's fine we need to replace those people because i have a very robust
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affirmative civil rights agenda that i think many americans will be pleased with so i have to tell
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you and we we saw each other earlier this week and i uh you know i i made it very clear i'm i'm very
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concerned that the department of justice and the fbi don't seem to be moving uh very rapidly on some
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things where people need to go if they're if there's evidence they committed a crime i don't care what
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party they're in they need to be prosecuted heard by a jury of their peers and if they're found guilty
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go to jail and i don't see a lot of the fast action uh and then you just kind of smiled at me and said
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well i've been on the job for about 15 days here's what i did just this week um let's go through some
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of the things that you're doing let's start with the um the anti-christian uh persecution that you are
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going after now right absolutely well you know the president signed an executive order targeting
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anti-christian bias in federal agencies and that tallies with some of our civil rights agenda which
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is to protect the rights of people of faith throughout the united states whether they're in
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federal agencies or not and some of the most egregious violations are occurring in the states
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everyone is familiar with what happened during covid and our federal government stood by while
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christians and everybody of faith including my faith and others were persecuted and not allowed
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to pray so now what the federal government is doing and we convened a meeting of all of invited all the
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cabinet officials and many of them came and told tales of persecution happening in the ranks of the
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federal government for example department of defense dismissing thousands of brave soldiers
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for refusing to take a vaccine shot that was not necessary for them in their opinion and violated
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their religious principles now um pete hagseth has invited those folks back most of them if they want
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i think that's a great step but the job in this project is to investigate what happened write it and
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make sure it never happens again and we stop the systematic bias against people of faith in this case
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christians we're also going after uh the notorious anti-semitic violence and discrimination happening
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throughout the united states but specifically on american college campuses the most elite campuses in the
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united states are the places where the most egregious violations are occurring and this is squarely
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within the purview of the civil rights division to go after um you and i discussed the face act which is
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a law that was passed um you know many years ago that is supposed to protect people going into
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abortion facilities from violence the only violence being done in recent years is to the law and to the
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rights of speech and a prayer of people of faith who want to pray which is in their entire first
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amendment right outside abortion facilities those americans elderly and young americans have been arrested
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and persecuted by the biden doj and so one of the first things that was done under the new
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administration was to dismiss multiple cases cases in tennessee pennsylvania and ohio have been dismissed
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we are not going to be pursuing these face act cases other than in extraordinary circumstances
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involving death serious bodily harm or extreme property damage and none of the recent cases have any of
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those fact patterns well hang on just instead the department can you go can you use the face act
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to get the people that are firebombing uh or or doing harm on the other side well i was going to get to that
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which is that um facilities involving uh involving prenatal care yeah pro-life are protected by the face act
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and so we will be uh aggressively going after there were more than 200 incidents in the last few years
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of those kind of facilities where people were counseled about their choices about adoption about
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keeping the baby um those facilities have been violently attacked by by uh activists with no action
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by law enforcement federal or state we will be going after those cases because every woman has a right
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to go into those facilities and get fair open and even um in some cases um religiously inflected
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advice about their choices with respect to the baby that they that they are growing in their bodies
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i know that um church after church after church has been destroyed and firebombed all over the country
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and those people never seem to go to jail nobody seems to notice a that's not true guys so
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you know again uh we actually have won prosecutions of fire bombings of churches in recent weeks in the
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civil rights division our criminal section has done a tremendous job going after that and
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okay so it's right there on our website and i encourage people okay so it's changing now changing
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but yeah it's changing now it is changing now and and i i have to be fair whenever a house of worship
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in the united states has been attacked it has generally been the policy of the civil rights division
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even in democrat administrations to prosecute that so that has kind of been a constant but
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we promise to put an additional effort on that important um yeah important area i guess not just
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christians it is all people of faith are under attack here in the united states if somebody's
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going in if somebody's going into a mosque i feel exactly the same way yeah i mean you don't exactly
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go after religion here in america exactly exactly so that is not even a controversial thing here we'll be
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continuing to do that aggressively but you know there's so many ways you can change an emphasis so
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for example yesterday the president signed a very important some might find it boring because it
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uses statistics it said we're not going to be using disparate impact analysis anymore in our law
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enforcement and what that means for americans is it is rolling back a very discredited and should be
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overruled line of cases that says that a company can be sued or a police department can be sued
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just for policies that are facially neutral but allegedly have a disparate impact on people of
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certain backgrounds so for example if there's a police department and there's a neutral test
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involving math or involving something basic and two percent fewer african americans pass that test than
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white americans lawsuit time by the civil rights division we're not doing we're not in that business
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anymore pursuant to the executive order wasn't that i mean that was important when you know you
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had poll taxes or you had tests where you know you an african-american back in the 1800s even the 18
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or 1920s would walk into a place down south and and they'd have to say you know oh you guys have to
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answer a few questions how many windows are in the white house on the first floor that that kind of
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stuff but but when it is given to everyone and it is a require i mean i think it's insane that we're
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looking at somebody's background when they're a when they're in charge of a flight center you know we
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we have to have standards well you're absolutely correct and i mean these this disparate impact
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analysis is actually much more recent vintage than the egregious examples that you mentioned where
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we had to have a civil rights act in this country because we had a history of discrimination let's
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let's not sugarcoat it but it's 2025 today and the idea that some police department or some big employer
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can be sued because of statistics which can be manipulated is ludicrous and it is unfair so
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where an employer or a police department or a fire department actively discriminates against someone on
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the basis of their race we will be taking action on that kind of case not passive statistical analysis
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so when you look at things that have been done where it's not it's not okay not to be racist you have to
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be anti-racist which flips the entire thing up upside down how prevalent is that in our government
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and what are we doing to solve those things well i mean i'm i'm new to examining government websites
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it's not my favorite topic but i will tell you that um if you call the government government
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sponsored education i'll give you one example i was looking at the uc berkeley website the other day
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to become a graduate applicant in chemistry you have to list out in your personal statement
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five different ways you have um exhibited your allyship towards oppressed people oh my gosh um i'm
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not sure what that has to do with chemistry we i mean that's a rhetorical question that's got nothing
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to do with chemistry and why should you be compelled to take particular political viewpoints right to get a
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chemistry graduate degree that is from a government sponsored entity that is absurd and unconstitutional
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in my opinion and illegal and we will be rooting out that kind of discrimination and compelled speech
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wherever we find it you know everybody is um you know biden took uh great pains to hide it a lot of
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agencies they changed the names of things went into hiding i mean there's when you have as much time as
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well okay i have currently you know some 200 some 300 ish attorneys in the civil rights division
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there are thousands of institutions of higher learning in the united states like 6 000 of them
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i've sent out letters to the top ones in the united states asking for some information about how they
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changed their practices after the landmark case against harvard students for fair admissions and
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responses are rolling in conversations are happening but to eradicate it the way that you just described we
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need sufficient resources to do that because yes the people who have been doing it are both very clever
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and well funded and they've also been doing it for a very long time in scale they're very dedicated
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to it and george soros and many other liberal and data funders have promulgated hundreds if not
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thousands of pseudo non-profits whose job it has been to borrow into every level i mean every pension fund
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of a public pension fund in the united states for retirement agencies for government workers calpers in
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california they can't make investments that don't comply with these dei agendas so every retiree is
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subject to some form of this um of this problem which in turn affects every company in the united states
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that's publicly traded many privately traded as well and so it's a huge problem and we can't tackle it
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without sufficient resources what are those resources you need i mean you need more lawyers investigators
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and commitment to do the work and you need the people in the united states identifying these things for us
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we can only have so many eyes and ears and hours in the day um every one of my um people who's joined me in the
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civil rights division in the front office we're working long hours every few minutes i'm flagging a project
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oh my god look at this look at that what is happening here put an attorney working on it
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we're going to run out of attorneys to work on these things at some point so you know hopefully we'll solve some of these
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problems with some big cases the the effort that is going on against the anti-semitism at some of the
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ivy league institutions and other big institutions open investigation at ucla um these are going to have
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a big impact you don't have to sue everybody you have to sue and make some cases stick and for all the
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people who are impatient i understand people are impatient you can't build a bulletproof case against
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people who've been doing bad for decades in two weeks it's not going to happen and the case won't stick
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so i think you know as we talked you know i said what is happening at the doj and you said a lot is
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happening at doj nobody's talking about it that's why i wanted to make sure that people heard um i don't
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think it's that you haven't put anybody in jail and i don't mean you but you know we haven't seen it
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it's that people are not aware of what is going on behind the scenes you know i i when the whole thing
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with um epstein happened with pam bondy i said wait let's tap the brakes here yeah that
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pisses me off that it went out that way however i'm not sure that pam isn't saying wait do you want
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satisfaction or do you want people to go to jail because you can't you have to build a case before
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you lay everything out in front of the american people and i want people to go to jail i think
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what people just want to know is that there is progress being that they didn't vote for enough
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of all of this insanity and then nothing is happening that's why i think you're so important
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well well thank you glenn but you know all the people working in the government who left their
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comfortable successful lives to come here to dc you you my voice is different because i'm suffering
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from the allergies over here it's not pleasant not my favorite thing however we did it because we
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believe so deeply that this is a maybe last chance in the united states to turn this ship around it
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has been going in the wrong direction and even prior republican administrations unfortunately haven't
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taken an axe to the um edifice weaponizing the government against the people for many years and
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now we have a president dedicated to doing it you see that happening and it is happening i went over to
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meet with my good friend cash patel across the street from me in the fbi building yesterday we
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had an excellent conversation about matters of common interest and i can tell you that he and his team
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are working extremely hard but if people just on social media followed the social media accounts of
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the department of justice the top officials the fbi they're making arrests they're putting away
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criminals they're bringing cases on a daily basis and so just complaining because it's you're not seeing
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it in the format you want is kind of lazy quite frankly i think people need to go and find the
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information we're putting out regularly so um you said that we need resources but we also need um we
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also need attorneys how do you how do you go about finding people who are the real deal and who are moles and
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i mean it's got it's got to be really frustrating on not knowing who to trust how do you how are you
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vetting people well so look it's an administrative challenge to come into a major agency and change
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course um the civil rights division of the department of justice speaking very frankly
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has been described by many people as you know sort of oh they'll never change people spend their
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whole careers they're doing one particular kind of litigation suing the police suing the police some
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more suing employers and it's their part of it is their personal passion okay well this isn't the
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personal passion department here it is it is the enforcement of the civil rights laws department and
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so i will tell you there are many fine career lawyers at the department of justice civil rights
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division they don't have to agree with me what they have to do is do the job that is assigned and
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there are many who are doing that and there's some who looked at the memos i sent out saying this is a
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new priority and they're like we're not doing that we we are doing this other thing and i said that's
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not that that's not on offer anymore there's no menu here this is not mcdonald's you're gonna have
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to do what's on offer here and so what we now need to do once all the dust settles and people are
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off the books is we are we are looking at resumes of lawyers who want to do that work i don't care what
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their politics are it is not relevant i do care that they're willing to take direction and zealously
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enforce the civil rights of the united states according to the priorities of this president
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they're not surprising they're literally on the internet and executive orders and the statutes
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are there as well and so i don't think it's going to be hard to be honest with those positions aren't
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they also in the bill of rights i mean it's not like the president is saying hey we're gonna ignore
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these rights i mean if you if your civil rights have been violated the job of the justice department
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is to investigate it find out if it's true and prosecute if it's it right doesn't matter who the
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president is first amendment i mean you know the new project i've got going in the civil rights division
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to the surprise of many people on both sides is the second amendment who's protecting the second
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amendment in the federal government prior republican administrations haven't paid a lot of attention
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to affirmatively doing that but you know in the wake of clear guidance from the united states supreme
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court protecting our right to um you know own and use firearms in in most circumstances throughout the
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united states city after city state after state are eviscerating those rights they're mocking
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the supreme court by passing laws that make it virtually impossible colorado just passed a law
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that is extremely onerous and imposes a financial burden on gun ownership california is wink wink nudge
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nudge allowing you to apply for concealed carry in multiple places and then they don't staff the
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departments that make the interviews dc i came here to dc i have firearm i'm a firearms owner i inquired
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about the process it's months before i can get an appointment with the chief of police or the police
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department to even apply to exercise my second amendment rights well i'm exercised about that
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i'm not happy about that and i might be doing something about that new york has a host of laws
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that are that are different in in upstate new york and different in new york city and they all violate
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the constitution so um we will be working together to uh make this a focus of the civil rights division
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challenging state law that violates fundamental civil rights in the civil rights division you know i was
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doing a story today on uh washington state washington state is they've gone mad they're they're they're
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insane um and they're doing a new tesla tax because the tesla's windfall profits need to be spent for
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the good of the poppy i mean it's like marxist 101 but they also passed and signed into law the uh governor
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uh a uh an emergency health act that if there's another pandemic the governor will consult with
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quote scientific experts and can impose whatever the scientific experts say on the population and when i saw
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that i thought um no i would move from washington state that that is you you they you just
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lost all of your civil rights all of your civil rights they've already done it once under covid now
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they're codifying this how does that fit in with you what you guys do well glenn i think i'm well i'm
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well known to your viewers and many others for the fact that during covid i followed more lawsuits than
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any other lawyer in the united states to challenge covid restrictions and i have told congress
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friends in congress on multiple occasions there's this one simple trick that they can use to make sure
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this never happens again and that is legislatively overruling a case dating back to the beginning of
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the 20th century called jacobson versus massachusetts jacobson versus massachusetts is a case involving a
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smallpox vaccine mandate in massachusetts and that case has been used in the modern era in the last five
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years to strip all of us of our civil rights so when i hear about that um decision you just mentioned the
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new law it doesn't matter because federal law and federal judges have already given state and even
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clowns like la county's health official who isn't even a doctor the right to force 10 million people
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to stay in their homes not get an education not run their businesses and not move about freely
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that's outrageous but congress can fix that and congress should fix that and we should never again be under
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the thumb of this law that says that the state has police power to force you to take drugs i don't
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think so employers are allowed under guidance to do that right now too we should change that
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so are you happy with congress though because i'm not real happy with congress you think their congress
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is i talked to the president on wednesday and i said you know when are you going to put the law
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down on congress the hammer and he's like you know they're doing a great job let's give them time
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they've got to pass this big beautiful bill and i got the sense he was really still kind of negotiating
00:28:33.960
and you know trying to make things work for this big beautiful bill he's talking about but i think
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congress uh i think the republicans in congress need to be shamed i think he needs to take a big
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beautiful hammer to their head and say get to work what are you doing get to work because if they
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don't codify the things that he's put in we're just going back to the way we were
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look i'm not here to shame anybody i had a conversation with a member of congress earlier
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today providing them with some information and i think most members of congress are really well
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meaning um well meaning is is not enough at this point in our our our our time and in this in our
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in this uh you know trajectory of where we are as a country but you have to do math right i mean
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there's a certain number of people there and what they can get done realistically i think it's
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something that's on the heads of our leadership so um are they working long enough hours you know
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are they prioritizing the right things i'm not a legislator i never sought to be one in the at
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the federal level so i leave it to them but any member of congress can ask me what i think needs
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to be fixed with our civil rights laws and i will happily offer my opinion on that as i've been
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doing for the last 30 plus years what's the one thing that you got into office and you were like
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oh my gosh i never thought i'd see this is there anything there's a few i never thought i'd see
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50 year old consent decrees involving desegregation still being monitored by the united states department
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of justice um we we dismissed one of those cases or filed the paperwork to dismiss the judge is
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sitting on it what does that mean what to do about it what does that mean that means that a court
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that that that a court is monitoring or on paper monitoring desegregation in a southern state
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where the judge is gone nobody is committing any discrimination that anybody's complaining about
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and someone in the department of justice has it on their docket in my department to monitor this and
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there's dozens of cases like that so we're finding all these old cases and dismissing them there are
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cases statistical cases brought against police departments that shouldn't be there we're dismissing
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those cases there's cases in there's a 1978 case involving police practices that the department of
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justice is still monitoring none of the cops are there none of the supervisors are there the judge
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isn't there we're clinging to this case as part of our caseload that's absurd so these things are
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getting we're pouring out some lawyers pet project nobody wanted to be the lawyer who is dismissing a
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desegregation case or discrimination case i'm happy to do it i don't think it's just for the
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government to have its boot on the neck of a law-abiding law enforcement agency or school
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district i think we should be encouraging good behavior by dissolving and dismissing those
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unnecessary burdens you have to think about it what kind of burden was imposed on those people
00:31:21.100
reporting reporting you know worrying about running afoul of some requirements some special restrictions
00:31:29.120
having to get permission for certain things that you shouldn't have to do we you know these cases
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also occur in the voting rights area as well the republican national committee was under a 30-year
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consent decree uh preventing them from getting involved in election day operations for no good
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reason the only time that case went away is when the judge passed away and we were able to get
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another person to do that so you know these it becomes someone's pet project and then they cling
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to it and they don't want to give it up and that's that's unjust that is our government should be there
00:32:03.460
you know enforce the laws call the balls and strikes but not sort of have some weaponized agenda that
00:32:08.180
lasts for decades um i was shocked at the number of cases that we have against police departments
00:32:15.280
based purely on tiny statistical differentials three percent five percent you're bringing a case
00:32:23.460
against police department because they people are passing tests based on their racial characteristics
00:32:29.080
at a three percent or a five percent differential i'm sorry that's junk science that doesn't barely even
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meet the um meet the margin of error much less a case you go into court and and handle we have a
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department in my section that hasn't brought a case in court for years they send letters to people
00:32:48.840
and you know demand responses like there's no lawsuit there we're not doing that anymore in the civil
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rights division if there's an investigation we're going to investigate we're going to either take
00:32:59.280
action or we're going to close the investigation we aren't going to let investigations linger on causing
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anxiety and stress for law-abiding people for years you know that was unjust to me when i found out my
00:33:11.460
friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see
00:33:17.980
from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners oh are those
00:33:24.280
beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those
00:33:29.660
knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop
00:33:36.740
wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less that was the thing that the justice department
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i think did is they made the process the punishment they just let it linger i mean when the justice
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department has you in their sights and you know it and they say we're coming for you we're just could
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you need to produce this and this and you know we'll meet with you soon your whole life changes your
00:33:59.060
whole life changes and the process becomes the punishment it does it does and what what what
00:34:06.260
government lawyers i mean well-meaning i'm sure don't understand is when that other person got that
00:34:11.600
letter they went and hired a lawyer yeah 10 000 20 000 50 000 and that lawyer keeps billing every month
00:34:18.800
as long as that investigation is going and that's not that's not a fault of the lawyer that's how the
00:34:23.800
system is and the system is wrong so we're going to stop that you're either we're going to look into it
00:34:28.860
if you're doing something wrong you're going to fix it or we're going to stop harassing you if you're
00:34:34.140
a christian if you're a muslim if you're a jew i particularly think jews are um
00:34:40.020
right in the chopping block and the firing line uh especially in in universities what message do you
00:34:49.020
have for them who feel like uh nobody's i mean this system is just crushing us
00:34:55.420
this united states department of justice has a zero tolerance policy for violence or intimidation
00:35:03.140
against any person of faith in the united states that prevents them from getting an education
00:35:07.920
worshiping freely enjoying the right to buy a church mosque temple gurdwara and use that
00:35:13.920
appropriately within federal law and we venerate religion in our country in our bill of rights
00:35:20.120
it is a founding basis of our country and we're very very committed to it and so um i'm personally
00:35:27.040
committed to it my entire career has been based on protecting religious liberty of all people of
00:35:31.480
faith wanting three cases of the united states supreme court in recent years during covid on these
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issues and so um that's a that's a no-brainer but there's so much more that we need to get done i
00:35:41.600
know people are chomping at the bit to see what are we going to do on election integrity issues i don't
00:35:46.320
have a portfolio that allows me as a federal official to go fix every election law problem
00:35:50.760
in america people have to understand we have a separation of powers we have a balance of power
00:35:55.680
federalism i'm sorry guys there's no shortcut most of the hard work relating to election laws
00:36:01.000
has to be done in the states that's how our constitution is set up and that is how our laws
00:36:05.860
are set up yep you can't just elect one person in the white house and expect him to fix all your
00:36:10.780
problems what we can do is administer those election laws that we administer what congress needs to do
00:36:16.920
is put some teeth into those election laws just yesterday in a case that my team argued a federal
00:36:23.060
judge here in dc um stopped the federal government from requiring voter id voter id is contemplated in
00:36:31.600
our federal election laws and and unfortunately it's not spelled out clearly enough and what the prior
00:36:38.220
administrations have done is use the fact that it isn't spelled out clearly enough that states can
00:36:42.180
require voter id as a condition of registration is they said states can't require it because it isn't
00:36:47.720
explicitly required i've asked congress every member of congress who asked me hey harmeet what can we
00:36:52.360
fix fix this require voter id explicitly in the statute if you if you want to stop complaining about it
00:36:59.500
so they need to go do that and i've heard some cockamamie reasons why they can't i won't shame any
00:37:04.380
particular congressman you're more than welcome to but i that would not be fair those were
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confidential conversations but i rolled my eyes and as i'm describing them they can fix it they need
00:37:16.340
to fix it and by the way it is a very popular issue today in america i think many democrats are fed
00:37:22.260
up too and it's 80 percent 70 30 or 80 20 issue yeah you know people are a lot of i mean when we
00:37:30.060
when we see the fallout of the new act blue executive order that's not my department but when that fallout
00:37:36.640
comes out some of the things i've seen as an election lawyer in my private life are truly shocking
00:37:41.900
the abuses of the um donation system people are going to want to know that there's some check and
00:37:47.740
balance on the right to vote here the vote is a precious right and it shouldn't be given away
00:37:54.020
to people who don't have a right to it and one way to do that is voter id uh thank you so much
00:38:00.820
harmeet you i'm it's always great to see you you always fill me with hope we've talked about some
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pretty dark things in the years of knowing each other and and you are a champion of light and i
00:38:11.040
appreciate it thank you thank you for having me you bet
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