Ken Paxton joins Lou Dobbs to discuss Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the landmark Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v Wade and returned the issue of abortion back to where it belongs all along, to the states.
00:20:40.460And she says we have never left individual rights to the states.
00:20:44.680She apparently has never heard of federalism or the constitutional guarantees to the states.
00:20:50.920Yeah. And she again, she ignores the actual words of the Constitution to make up her own contrived version of of these individual rights.
00:21:01.220And you're right. She ignores the delegation.
00:21:03.920If it wasn't specifically granted to the federal government in the Constitution, then the rest, all everything else is delegated to the state.
00:21:11.060And she ignores that constitutional provision as well.
00:21:13.040So there's nothing about what she says that's honest.
00:21:18.540She's she's very dishonest about what the Constitution says.
00:21:21.380And she ignores the reality of the rights that it does give.
00:21:25.800And the the the reaction of the left has been so different.
00:21:32.220I'm thinking, what would have been the reaction?
00:21:35.380What would have been the circumstance that would have incited the conservatives, the Republican Party, independents to the same language and the same anger in the streets of America back in 1973?
00:21:52.600Listen to one other Democrat and and then I will have had enough.
00:21:58.000And I'm sure you will in the audience as well to to the leftist reaction.
00:22:02.460Here's Democratic Representative Maxine Waters calling for, well, pro-abortion extremists to react.
00:23:11.760The people are the ones that are supposed to to make decisions about issues like this.
00:23:17.580And basically what she is saying is if the Supreme Court isn't going to make this rule our way, then we're going to we're going to go crazy and we're going to be we're going to cause a lot of a lot of problems.
00:23:29.400But the reality is every one of those people she's talking about that she says are going to go out in the streets, they can go vote.
00:23:35.180That's what this country is all about.
00:23:36.400And they can vote with their feet if they don't like the state they're in because they don't like the abortion laws.
00:24:23.960I want to and I want to turn again to the Supreme Court's victories for for truth, justice and the American way over the past week.
00:24:33.880Huge victories for the rule of law, including, of course, overturning Roe v.
00:24:39.420Wade, sending the issue of abortion back to the states.
00:24:42.760Gun rights, gun rights, knocking down the New York state restrictions against concealed carry of a firearm.
00:24:52.360And just today, Coach Kennedy winning support for praying at the 50 yard line whenever he wants to, reinforcing the right of religious expression in this country.
00:25:07.080Uh, and by the way, uh, his punishment, they also ruled, uh, was illegal as well as unfair.
00:25:15.540Uh, your reaction to, to those three victories, which have me walking around just singing hallelujah.
00:25:25.220You know, this is, it's amazing that, um, we even have to have these decisions, but the left is so focused on, uh, the Constitution and eliminating the rights that we were given by God, not by the government.
00:25:37.700Whether it's the second amendment, which they despise, and, and, and you can see the president Biden despises the second amendment.
00:25:44.300And you can see that even some of our, uh, Republican congressmen are not necessarily totally favorable to the second amendment.
00:25:51.320The first amendment with this coach Kennedy, clearly another thing that they, they've assaulted.
00:25:55.620You shouldn't be able to speak about the things that we don't want you to speak about, which is your fate.
00:26:02.180It was the very first amendment they put in place.
00:26:04.420And you'll notice both one and two, both first amendment one and first and second amendment two are much hated by the left.
00:26:11.200And, and we're, they're under assault every single day.
00:26:14.080So God bless the Supreme court for recognizing that, again, these are not rights that are granted by, you know, whatever state or whatever, whatever federal government dictates.
00:26:24.620These are rights that were given to us by God.
00:26:26.640They're inalienable and we, those rights are ours, whether they say they're, they are our rights or not.
00:26:32.940And, and they are fundamental to this, to the survival, uh, of the Republic as well.
00:26:40.240It's no accident, as you say, that the first amendment is first in the bill of rights, the second amendment, uh, in its high place, uh, in the bill of rights.
00:26:49.900Uh, and, uh, by the way, the fourth amendment is, uh, taking on a lot of hardship as well.
00:26:58.840The last thing that January 6th committee would want to see is that the last thing the Democrat party wants to consider is that amendment.
00:27:07.500It seems, uh, when it comes to Donald Trump and what has been a six year persecution, political persecution, uh, of, uh, of a, of a president.
00:27:17.720It's, it's, it's just, uh, it's breathtaking to see what has been rolled back here rather quickly, uh, by this, this, this brave court.
00:27:39.620I know I've been in situations where I've tried and, and it's gotten me into all kinds of hot water because who, who can really challenge federal law enforcement when they ignore fourth amendment rights.
00:27:48.980But it is obviously one of those bill of rights and it was listed.
00:27:54.880And if our federal government can just run roughshod over our individual rights, then, uh, then you're going to get, we're going to get what we get, which is a few people dictating to us what we can say, what we can do and how we can protect ourselves.
00:28:08.180And that is not the country that we were, we, we were founded under.
00:28:11.860As we're wrapping up here, I would just like to ask you the effect this will have, uh, the, uh, the, the Dobbs, uh, ruling as we call it here on the, on the great America show.
00:28:25.880Uh, it is, I, and I should, as I have pointed out, I'm not related to Dr. Dobbs of Mississippi and I've, uh, but I, I'm sure proud to have that name, uh, uh, uh, uh, on the, on the case.
00:28:38.140I, I just, I, what is the impact on the state of Texas specifically, uh, give us a sense of that.
00:28:48.320You know, we, uh, my wife's a state senator.
00:28:51.140She'd actually passed the heartbeat bill and then also the trigger law.
00:28:55.340So we already had taken the heartbeat bill all the way to the Supreme Court, November 1st, and we got a favorable ruling.
00:29:00.920So after six weeks, you couldn't do an abortion in Texas, which had a significant impact on the number of babies that were being killed.
00:29:08.280With this, uh, the numbers should get even better.
00:29:11.280And, and so, uh, I'm, I'm truly grateful for my wife for getting both of these passed through the Senate.
00:29:15.880Obviously the House had to pass them as well, but, you know, we've got a problem in Texas.
00:29:20.540The, the, the district attorney, some of them were, are Soros funded from some of the big counties like Dallas and Houston.
00:29:26.440They're not going to, they're not going to criminally prosecute anybody.
00:29:29.540They've already said, many of them have already said, we're not doing this.
00:29:32.720The legislature can come back and fix that or not fix that.
00:29:35.700That right now it's in some, many places we won't be able to criminally prosecute.
00:29:39.900However, I do have the, the ability to civilly prosecute and the minimum fine for this is a hundred thousand dollars.
00:29:46.440So I can tell you, we're going to use the full force of that law to, to make people pay.
00:29:52.800If they're going to do abortions and hope that most DAs will prosecute.
00:29:57.000And if not, that the legislature will give the, somebody else, maybe the, the attorney general's office, like many other states have concurrent jurisdiction.
00:30:05.420So that DAs are out there making their own laws, which many of them are, they're just ignoring other laws as well as abortion laws.
00:30:11.500We can go back and have some type of accountability for them.
00:30:14.580So they're not a rule and they're not the law unto themselves, which is what some of them think they are.
00:30:20.620And the Austin city council, I understand some of their members, if not most want to decriminalize abortion in their city.
00:30:28.600In response to the Texas trigger law is, is that legal?
00:30:33.680No, it's not legal, but you know, we've had DAs already say they're not going to prosecute it in some of the big counties.
00:30:38.940I think like the Dallas County DA said it, there've been other DAs, probably Travis County, which is where Austin is.
00:30:44.960So the, the, the way Texas works is the DAs are the only one that can prosecute crimes other than election fraud.
00:30:51.080And so in many states there's concurrent jurisdiction so that the attorney general, if a DA isn't doing their job, there's some accountability.
00:31:00.720So the Austin city council is more of a show than a reality because it's the DA that makes that decision, not the Austin city council.
00:31:09.160That's all about show, not about anything that matters that I can tell.
00:31:13.460So it'll be interesting to see what they do, but I think that's more just a liberal, you know, show, show piece, not a, not a real thing that we're going to have to deal with.
00:31:23.500Well, we always give our guests here the last word, Mr. Attorney General.
00:31:28.440And if you will, your concluding thoughts here on the great America show.
00:31:32.300Well, as you mentioned, the Supreme court has come down with some pretty remarkable decisions in the last week or two.
00:31:40.880I mean, I didn't know how it was all going to work out.
00:31:42.680I didn't know if these justices would be able to stand in that sort of the crucible of, uh, that they're in, which is to deal with all the criticism and the threats.
00:31:51.860And, and so I'm really grateful, especially being a part of this, um, Dobbs case and the heartbeat bill and, and something that my wife and I care about significantly and have cared about for decades and decades.
00:32:04.060And there've been thousands of people who have given their lives to this cause.
00:32:08.400And so really, it's probably the most significant, uh, victory in my career and certainly grateful that we played a small role in, in asking the Supreme court to overrule a decision that I consider to be an absolute travesty.
00:32:22.300And, and, and, and, and you know what, America is a better place because of what has happened in the last week.
00:32:31.640And I think our audience does, uh, to a person, uh, it, we talk about the great America show and we talk about our commitment to truth, justice, of the American way.
00:32:44.940The air is somehow richer and cleaner and fresher, uh, with what the Supreme court has had the courage to stand up and to do for this country, uh, for truth, for justice and America.
00:32:58.340Uh, and Ken Paxton, we thank you for all that you have done and for making, uh, contributing to the making of a better America.
00:33:20.300Ken Paxton, attorney general, the great state of Texas.
00:33:24.300Thanks everybody for being with us today.
00:33:26.760Joining us tomorrow on the great America show will be the great American Carrie Campbell Severino.
00:33:32.480She's president of the judicial crisis network.
00:33:35.280As we take up the extraordinary and momentous Supreme court decisions of this past week.
00:33:42.000On gun control, religious freedom, right of private speech, and, of course, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the issue of abortion, return to the states.
00:33:52.640Please be with us for all that and more here tomorrow.
00:33:56.640Till then, God bless you and God bless America.