The Great America Show - AMERICA IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF HOW 5 JUSTICES RULED IN THE DOBBS CASE SAYS AG PAXTON

00:00:00.260 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show.

00:00:04.940 Welcome to unbridled, unadorned, consideration of any matter or event

00:00:10.660 influencing the strength of our great republic, the lives and prosperity of all Americans.

00:00:16.600 We're committed to truth, justice, and the American way here,

00:00:20.680 and we don't see much need to settle for less, and we won't.

00:00:24.780 And neither did the Supreme Court over the past week.

00:00:27.580 You and I have witnessed history as it should be made in America,

00:00:31.640 as envisioned by our nation's founders and as practiced by patriots throughout our history.

00:00:38.620 Our Supreme Court defended our Second Amendment rights in striking down New York's restrictive concealed carry law,

00:00:46.480 recognized the private speech and religious rights of a football coach to pray at the 50-yard line after games,

00:00:53.800 and ruled the high school couldn't punish him for doing so.

00:00:58.380 And for a grand finale to this term of the court, overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey

00:01:05.400 and returned the issue of abortion to where it belonged all along, to the states.

00:01:12.880 The Constitutionalists on the court made history, and did so under threats of all kinds,

00:01:19.120 from the Marxist Dems protesting at homes of the conservative justices,

00:01:24.160 threatening their lives, threatening to destroy the court,

00:01:28.120 to pack the court and keep adding justices to the court until it would be a leftist bastion.

00:01:34.760 Those Constitutionalists, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett,

00:01:41.940 are courageous, committed to our Constitution, and we're indebted to them as a nation.

00:01:48.980 God bless the Supreme Court and those fearless five justices who've righted wrongs

00:01:54.860 and have begun the hard fight to restore truth and justice to our legal system.

00:01:59.700 And of course, the Marxist Dems are already baying at the moon

00:02:04.600 and maneuvering to nullify the Dobbs case decision that overturned Roe v. Wade,

00:02:10.800 Senator Elizabeth Warren, and AOC calling for so-called emergency abortion clinics

00:02:16.780 to be set up on all federal lands, including national parks.

00:02:21.380 President Biden attacked the conservative majority on the court as extremists,

00:02:26.020 and the Marxist Dems have already filed lawsuits seeking to block those trigger laws

00:02:31.940 that in the absence of Roe v. Wade would automatically ban or restrict abortion in a number of states.

00:02:39.860 This fight, this fight for life, is far from over.

00:02:44.320 One of those who fights every day for truth, justice, and the rule of law

00:02:48.820 is the Attorney General of the great state of Texas.

00:02:52.260 He's Ken Paxton.

00:02:53.180 He's our guest today on The Great America Show.

00:02:56.360 And Ken, welcome.

00:02:58.160 First of all, thanks for all that you've done and are doing in the fight for life

00:03:01.940 and our right to bear arms.

00:03:03.960 You're a tremendous leader in the pro-life movement,

00:03:06.800 and congratulations to you, Mr. Attorney General.

00:03:10.820 Well, I appreciate that, Lou.

00:03:12.360 It was a huge team effort.

00:03:14.680 We played our part in it with the amicus brief with 24 states.

00:03:18.880 And really, when you count Mississippi 25, arguing for the first time that Roe v. Wade

00:03:23.760 should be overturned.

00:03:25.400 And, you know, it's been a long fight with literally thousands and thousands of people

00:03:30.120 involved across the nation.

00:03:31.700 And I'm just grateful that I got to play a small role in it.

00:03:35.000 Well, I also appreciate the fact that you closed your office Friday, created an annual holiday

00:03:43.340 to celebrate overturning Roe v. Wade.

00:03:47.220 And I'm just delighted that we're seeing you celebrate and commemorate this historical occasion.

00:03:55.900 Well, we're talking about, you know, literally thousands and thousands of lives every year

00:04:01.400 just in Texas.

00:04:02.600 And so, to me, it's worthy of celebration.

00:04:06.640 We'll never know the lives that were saved, who they were, just like we don't know who

00:04:11.300 the lives that have been lost.

00:04:12.720 We just know the numbers are around 70 million in America since Roe v. Wade was instituted

00:04:17.960 by the Supreme Court, not by Constitution, not by statute, not by any normal means.

00:04:23.700 They just implemented it on us, and we've been fighting them ever since.

00:04:27.060 And so, you know, every day that went by, we were losing more and more babies.

00:04:31.340 So, for me, it was worth celebrating, and it's worth celebrating and remembering this

00:04:36.480 at least as long as I'm Attorney General.

00:04:39.040 Yeah, and I think it's important in connection with what you're saying.

00:04:44.120 We have a brighter light falling on America today as a result of a courageous Supreme Court

00:04:51.980 decision, and I would be remiss if I did not comment on the courage of those five justices

00:05:00.140 who stood up for everything that's right, for the Constitution, for those lives yet to be

00:05:10.040 born that they have saved.

00:05:12.880 It's just a remarkable moment.

00:05:15.280 And they were intimidated by the left, the President of the United States.

00:05:21.900 Every dark force in this country was going after them, trying to intimidate them.

00:05:26.580 In the case of Justice Kavanaugh, as you know, a young man is now charged with attempted murder

00:05:33.660 with every apparent intent to kill him.

00:05:39.240 This is what they faced.

00:05:40.840 They knew what the consequences would be, and yet they stood up for the rule of law in

00:05:48.760 this country and for this country itself.

00:05:51.800 Yep, I agree with that.

00:05:53.340 You couldn't have said it any better.

00:05:55.160 The intimidation was tremendous from the President of the United States trying to bully them into

00:05:59.580 ignoring the Constitution.

00:06:01.140 And honestly, this is such an important decision because it actually is the Constitution working

00:06:08.740 out.

00:06:09.700 You know, since 1973, we had a decision just like, you know, some of our decisions back

00:06:16.020 in the 1800s related to slavery, where they ruled that, you know, if your skin color was

00:06:21.160 a certain color, you weren't a person under the Constitution.

00:06:23.540 Well, that had to be fixed because that's not what the Constitution says.

00:06:27.740 And here we had that same type of discrimination against the unborn.

00:06:31.060 The Constitution doesn't provide any type of right in the words of the Constitution to end

00:06:36.620 those lives.

00:06:37.160 And yet we had Supreme Court, seven Supreme Court justices in the 70s decide to end those

00:06:42.420 lives.

00:06:42.780 And I just, I love the fact that these justices had the courage in the face of, you know, just

00:06:49.120 tremendous criticism, threatening their lives, and they preserved life, and they preserved

00:06:54.820 life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness really for everyone now.

00:06:59.580 Truth, justice, and the American way have been supported and assured, at least for some

00:07:07.960 time, as a result of their courage.

00:07:10.300 I think that it's just remarkable that we, you know, I consider those three justices,

00:07:18.360 Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Barrett, to have just been heaven sent.

00:07:25.220 And this, and we owe President Trump a great thank you for his part in this decision as well,

00:07:33.180 because without their participation, this does not happen.

00:07:36.860 And I guess inversely, we could say that if this election of 2020 were not rigged, stolen,

00:07:42.340 however you want to construct it, we might have a fourth conservative justice on that

00:07:48.040 Supreme Court.

00:07:49.500 In particular, I want to single out Justice Thomas and Justice Alito, who led the way on

00:07:55.220 this.

00:07:55.520 It's a truly remarkable moment in legal history, in the history of this Constitution, and those

00:08:05.480 who would support it against whatever fad or fashion has gripped the legal profession at

00:08:11.000 any one moment in our history, it's good to see it prevail.

00:08:15.240 Well, they certainly did two really great things.

00:08:17.260 One is they recognized the rights of the unborn, which I think is tremendous and certainly valid

00:08:25.440 under the Constitution.

00:08:26.580 But they also validated our Constitution that this poor decision, even though it had been

00:08:32.420 used as precedent for other cases since 1973, they acknowledged that this should not have

00:08:38.760 been done, that it was a bad decision.

00:08:40.060 And they went and undid, you know, decade-long bad decisions that cost American lives, millions

00:08:47.200 of American lives, probably, I think, more than all the wars that we've been in combined.

00:08:51.540 We lost more Americans from abortion.

00:08:54.700 And so, yeah, I don't know.

00:08:56.720 I don't really have the right words to say how grateful I am to them, because you can't

00:09:01.840 describe how important it is preserving our Constitution and preserving literally life

00:09:08.240 for these babies.

00:09:11.280 For these babies.

00:09:12.920 And so many want to quibble with the word baby, as you know, Mr. Attorney General.

00:09:18.800 But let's call them babies, and let's follow the science.

00:09:22.620 And science says that from the moment of conception, a life has been formed.

00:09:28.600 I don't see how anyone could get around that.

00:09:31.580 I know that it may be unpleasant.

00:09:32.940 I know that right now the debates are underway, whether will abortion be permitted, banned

00:09:40.780 after 15 weeks, whatever the definition is.

00:09:46.600 I truly believe the sanctity of life, the sanctity of the unborn, is a matter of religion, a matter

00:09:56.320 of theology, a matter of faith, or as a matter of science and fact.

00:10:04.600 We have to understand what we're doing.

00:10:07.480 And what is so, to me, unsettling is that over that half century that you're talking about,

00:10:14.940 Ken Paxton, we didn't have a debate about any of this.

00:10:18.540 We didn't have a national debate.

00:10:20.460 We didn't even have debate in our universities and our colleges.

00:10:23.480 We didn't have a debate about with facts, like when is the science of life?

00:10:30.840 What does it say?

00:10:32.240 What is the consensus view of our best scientific minds?

00:10:39.300 And further, how many abortions were in this country in 1972 versus 1973?

00:10:46.940 Because that seems to be the breaking off point.

00:10:49.760 How many abortions were in Texas in 1965 versus 1995 as a result of this court decision and

00:11:01.880 the other legislation?

00:11:04.360 We didn't have a discussion about what it was doing to our country.

00:11:07.400 What does it say to a country that you would end the lives of 60 to 70 million Americans

00:11:17.160 at a time and at the same time inviting illegal immigrants into your country a half century 0.97

00:11:25.340 later because we don't have enough people to work, we don't have enough people to support

00:11:30.460 the economy, as is the argument of the Business Roundtable, the Chamber of Commerce, and the

00:11:35.380 list goes on.

00:11:36.080 Your thoughts?

00:11:37.400 Well, you know, it's amazing that seven justices took the debate away from every state in the

00:11:43.580 country, which is where our Constitution puts these type of questions.

00:11:48.800 Elected representatives from 50 states, we're talking about thousands of representatives and

00:11:53.920 senators who never had that debate, and they stuck a dagger into our Constitution and literally 0.97

00:12:00.140 stuck a dagger into the lives of literally millions of unborn children.

00:12:03.640 And so I can't think of, we've had some pretty bad decisions from the Supreme Court over its

00:12:08.880 240 or 50-year history, one about slavery, and certainly this is right up there as one 0.97

00:12:15.520 of the absolute most horrid decisions that seven justices could ever make.

00:12:21.280 And it had a long-lasting, tremendous impact on our republic and how people viewed that republic.

00:12:29.460 But you know what I would say?

00:12:30.720 I give a lot of credit to people like my pastor when I went to the University of Virginia School of Law.

00:12:36.020 When he started talking then, this is 1988, 89, 90, talking about how this is a winnable war because

00:12:42.340 science was on our side.

00:12:44.020 As science would show over time, viability and life are scientific facts.

00:12:50.560 And so what I love about the pro-life movement, about people that cared about life, is that

00:12:55.340 they didn't resort to violence for the most part.

00:12:59.680 They just stuck in a fight.

00:13:01.600 They continued to lobby their legislators.

00:13:03.860 They continued to fight in every way they could without violence.

00:13:07.440 And I think it's paid off just like it did for Wilberforce and just like it did for some

00:13:14.460 of our great American leaders that ended slavery.

00:13:18.280 And violence is what we had over the weekend in major Democrat-run cities.

00:13:29.380 Here's the mayor of Chicago.

00:13:33.700 Now we know what happened with the Supreme Court yesterday.

00:13:36.960 If you read Clarence Thomas' concurrence, he said, thank you, Clarence Thomas.

00:13:43.220 He thinks that we are going to stand idly by when they take our rights, our right to marry,

00:13:52.620 our right to have children.

00:13:54.000 I don't know what to say other than she's an embarrassment to her job, to her city, to

00:13:59.440 her state, to her country, to use that kind of language.

00:14:03.360 And she's just wrong.

00:14:05.460 And she's exaggerating about what this decision does.

00:14:08.620 This decision was related to a very specific issue that was decided by seven men in 1973.

00:14:15.880 And it has a right to go back.

00:14:17.880 Her state can make its decision based on its elected representatives.

00:14:22.160 And apparently she's not a big fan of representative government.

00:14:25.100 She wants a ruling oligarchy to dictate to us what we should do and think. 1.00

00:14:31.040 And the reality is that's not the country that the founders set up.

00:14:35.060 And if she doesn't like that country, there's plenty of other countries where they get dictated 0.79

00:14:39.060 to what the law is going to be.

00:14:40.840 That's just not the way America was set up, and that's not the country that I love, and

00:14:45.460 that's not the country that most Americans love, which is a country where we get to decide

00:14:49.820 the people to make the decisions.

00:14:52.320 We are the rulers, not the people who are elected.

00:14:55.780 Why is there a sense right now in this country that it's certainly among the left that unelected,

00:15:05.920 for the most part, unelected officials in the bureaucracy, the deep state, whatever you want to call them,

00:15:12.820 the elites in business or whatever, no better than the rest of us, all of us mere citizens.

00:15:20.640 Why has that idea taken hold, and what will it take to break it?

00:15:25.700 And is this perhaps the breaking point for that seeming acceptance of authoritarianism

00:15:34.160 on the part of the Marxist left and the Democrat Party?

00:15:38.340 Well, they're elitists.

00:15:39.560 They think they know better than us.

00:15:41.080 They think that we're not as smart as they are, that they have the intellect,

00:15:44.460 and that they should make decisions for us because we are clinging to our God and to our guns.

00:15:50.460 You remember President Obama saying that.

00:15:52.220 Oh, yeah.

00:15:52.600 That is the mentality of the left.

00:15:54.760 They think they know better than us.

00:15:56.960 They don't have the votes if they tell the truth about what they're doing.

00:16:00.540 They want to control the country with a few people telling us what we can and who,

00:16:04.360 and they were the ones that could decide who gets what.

00:16:07.120 It's no different than most countries where you have a ruling elite,

00:16:11.420 a ruling oligarchy that tells everybody what they can and can't do.

00:16:15.380 And, you know, the people in power love that.

00:16:17.480 And the liberal elites want that same type of power in the United States,

00:16:24.160 and they don't want people making their own decisions.

00:16:26.440 They want to make the decisions for us because they're smarter than we are.

00:16:29.840 And one of those people who's definitely smarter than all the rest of us is Senator Elizabeth Warren. 1.00

00:16:35.900 And no one is more agitated or angry than she about this decision.

00:16:44.340 If you would, let's listen to her go on about the very idea that this country would honor our Constitution

00:16:52.040 and put the issue of abortion back with state legislatures giving, insisting on consent of the governed and representation.

00:17:02.180 Here she is.

00:17:03.680 They went to the polls just like your constituents in Massachusetts where abortion is legal.

00:17:09.020 So why not leave it to the states?

00:17:13.200 We have never left individual rights to the states.

00:17:17.820 The whole idea is that women are not second-class citizens, 0.98

00:17:23.560 and the government is not the one that will decide about the continuation of a pregnancy.

00:17:29.800 You know, there's no equivalent there for men.

00:17:32.740 So what we believe is that access to abortion, like other medical procedures,

00:17:38.740 should be available across the board to all people in this country.

00:17:45.220 Ken, your reaction?

00:17:47.120 She's very dishonest. 1.00

00:17:48.800 She knows that there was no constitutional right to privacy or an abortion.

00:17:53.040 She can't point to any word in the text of our Constitution.

00:17:56.860 And yet, because the Supreme Court told us it was there, she now can claim that it's there,

00:18:01.740 even though it's just a vapor.

00:18:03.900 And so she's very dishonest. 0.92

00:18:05.820 And then she ignores the rights of the unborn, the fact that they're going to lose their life,

00:18:11.460 and the fact that they have a constitutional right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:18:16.980 And so she's ignoring the Constitution and making up words and relying on words that were never there. 1.00

00:18:22.560 And I guess it serves her purposes, her power purposes.

00:18:26.200 But she's very dishonest about what the Constitution says. 0.95

00:18:30.180 And she ignores the real Constitution, which should allow every human being to have dignity and the opportunity to live.

00:18:37.900 You're talking about the decision in Roe v. Wade.

00:18:44.280 It was just a fabrication.

00:18:46.080 It was nothing more than a contrivance by the Berger Court, which was supposed to be a conservative court,

00:18:55.780 but in fact endorsed nearly everything that the Earl Warren Court had done in preceding, which was the liberal court.

00:19:02.340 This is just a moment of madness in legal history, isn't it?

00:19:07.140 That they constructed this out of a right to privacy, a right to an abortion.

00:19:13.940 And everyone, with any sense at all, you don't have to be an attorney or a constitutional scholar.

00:19:20.220 Any one of us who can read the English language knows that it was just complete nonsense.

00:19:26.280 It persisted for 50 years.

00:19:28.900 Yeah.

00:19:29.200 I went to the University of Virginia Law School, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson,

00:19:32.140 a very liberal constitutional law professor, who admitted that there was no basis for Roe v. Wade, that they made it up.

00:19:39.360 Now, he argued that we needed courts to fix things that the legislature wouldn't.

00:19:45.700 Now, that's not our constitutional form of government.

00:19:47.700 That's what he was arguing.

00:19:49.120 But at least he was honest about the fact that there is no word in the Constitution.

00:19:53.820 There's no words.

00:19:55.220 There's no conglomeration of words that give this right to an abortion and the ending of a life.

00:20:00.360 And so what I find incredibly dishonest is that somebody like Elizabeth Warren tries to act like those words exist

00:20:08.780 and that there is no constitutional protection for these unborn children.

00:20:12.060 And she has no basis in the Constitution.

00:20:14.060 So it's just her personal opinion that this part of the Constitution should be made up and the other part should be ignored.

00:20:21.040 It's her personal opinion.

00:20:22.560 And if that's true, then we don't have a Constitution.

00:20:26.020 We don't have individual rights.

00:20:27.860 It's just all made up by the government.

00:20:30.180 And honestly, that's not the position of the founders.

00:20:32.940 The founders believe that those rights were God-given and not granted by the government.

00:20:37.580 And she's arguing just the opposite.

00:20:40.460 And she says we have never left individual rights to the states.

00:20:44.680 She apparently has never heard of federalism or the constitutional guarantees to the states.

00:20:50.920 Yeah. And she again, she ignores the actual words of the Constitution to make up her own contrived version of of these individual rights.

00:21:01.220 And you're right. She ignores the delegation. 0.59

00:21:03.920 If it wasn't specifically granted to the federal government in the Constitution, then the rest, all everything else is delegated to the state.

00:21:11.060 And she ignores that constitutional provision as well.

00:21:13.040 So there's nothing about what she says that's honest.

00:21:17.340 And she knows it.

00:21:18.540 She's she's very dishonest about what the Constitution says. 0.98

00:21:21.380 And she ignores the reality of the rights that it does give.

00:21:25.800 And the the the reaction of the left has been so different.

00:21:32.220 I'm thinking, what would have been the reaction?

00:21:35.380 What 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?

00:21:52.600 Listen to one other Democrat and and then I will have had enough.

00:21:58.000 And I'm sure you will in the audience as well to to the leftist reaction.

00:22:02.460 Here's Democratic Representative Maxine Waters calling for, well, pro-abortion extremists to react.

00:22:12.640 Here she is.

00:22:14.640 You see this time here.

00:22:17.020 You ain't seen nothing yet.

00:22:19.120 But women are going to control their bodies no matter how they try and stop us. 1.00

00:22:25.820 The hell with the Supreme Court.

00:22:27.800 We will defy them. 0.71

00:22:29.520 Women will be in control of their bodies. 1.00

00:22:32.220 And if they think black women are intimidated or afraid, they got another thought coming. 0.96

00:22:38.520 Black women will be out in droves. 1.00

00:22:41.240 We will be out by the thousands. 0.59

00:22:43.120 We will be out by the millions.

00:22:44.560 We're going to make sure we fight for the right to control our bodies.

00:22:50.100 Thank you.

00:22:50.880 Hello, everybody.

00:22:53.820 Maxine Waters with her usual eloquent response to two issues in which she finds herself in disagreement.

00:23:01.740 Your thoughts.

00:23:03.900 Look, it's it's obviously what she said is completely wrong.

00:23:07.960 We have we have elections.

00:23:09.920 Elections have consequences.

00:23:11.760 The people are the ones that are supposed to to make decisions about issues like this.

00:23:17.580 And 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.

00:23:29.400 But 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.

00:23:35.180 That's what this country is all about.

00:23:36.400 And they can vote with their feet if they don't like the state they're in because they don't like the abortion laws. 0.78

00:23:40.860 Guess what?

00:23:41.400 There's choices now.

00:23:42.780 And I know they like choices.

00:23:44.300 They talk.

00:23:44.720 They've been talking about choices since 1973.

00:23:46.860 There are choices now.

00:23:48.220 If they want to move to a state where abortion is legal, there are going to be states where abortion is legal.

00:23:53.080 So if people want to move to a state where your where life is protected, then they they're going to have those choices as well.

00:23:59.560 So I don't again, this is the left.

00:24:02.120 They don't like real choices.

00:24:03.420 They want to dictate to us outside of the Constitution, outside of our elected representatives, outside of our own vote.

00:24:09.740 They want to dictate to us how how we're going to act and what our rules are going to be.

00:24:14.540 And that's just not the way our Constitution was set up.

00:24:16.860 I'm sorry.

00:24:17.380 There are other countries that are set up that way.

00:24:19.000 And if you like that, you can choose that as well.

00:24:21.360 Well said.

00:24:23.960 I 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.

00:24:33.880 Huge victories for the rule of law, including, of course, overturning Roe v.

00:24:39.420 Wade, sending the issue of abortion back to the states.

00:24:42.760 Gun rights, gun rights, knocking down the New York state restrictions against concealed carry of a firearm.

00:24:52.360 And 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.

00:25:07.080 Uh, and by the way, uh, his punishment, they also ruled, uh, was illegal as well as unfair.

00:25:15.540 Uh, your reaction to, to those three victories, which have me walking around just singing hallelujah.

00:25:23.540 No, I agree with you.

00:25:25.220 You 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.

00:25:37.700 Whether it's the second amendment, which they despise, and, and, and you can see the president Biden despises the second amendment.

00:25:44.300 And you can see that even some of our, uh, Republican congressmen are not necessarily totally favorable to the second amendment.

00:25:51.320 The first amendment with this coach Kennedy, clearly another thing that they, they've assaulted. 0.96

00:25:55.620 You shouldn't be able to speak about the things that we don't want you to speak about, which is your fate.

00:26:00.200 Well, that was kind of fundamental.

00:26:02.180 It was the very first amendment they put in place.

00:26:04.420 And you'll notice both one and two, both first amendment one and first and second amendment two are much hated by the left.

00:26:11.200 And, and we're, they're under assault every single day.

00:26:14.080 So 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.

00:26:24.620 These are rights that were given to us by God.

00:26:26.640 They're inalienable and we, those rights are ours, whether they say they're, they are our rights or not.

00:26:32.940 And, and they are fundamental to this, to the survival, uh, of the Republic as well.

00:26:40.240 It'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.

00:26:49.900 Uh, and, uh, by the way, the fourth amendment is, uh, taking on a lot of hardship as well.

00:26:55.760 Uh, requiring due process of law.

00:26:58.840 The last thing that January 6th committee would want to see is that the last thing the Democrat party wants to consider is that amendment.

00:27:07.500 It 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.

00:27:17.720 It'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.

00:27:28.020 No, it is amazing.

00:27:29.240 I agree with you in the fourth amendment.

00:27:30.620 I've seen law enforcement, especially federal law enforcement.

00:27:33.480 They don't think they're held accountable for the fourth amendment and maybe they're not.

00:27:38.060 Who's going to hold them accountable.

00:27:39.620 I 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.

00:27:48.980 But it is obviously one of those bill of rights and it was listed.

00:27:53.140 It's number four.

00:27:53.840 It's pretty high up there.

00:27:54.880 And 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.

00:28:08.180 And that is not the country that we were, we, we were founded under.

00:28:11.860 As 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.

00:28:25.880 Uh, 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.

00:28:38.140 I, I just, I, what is the impact on the state of Texas specifically, uh, give us a sense of that.

00:28:46.720 So it's, it's pretty significant.

00:28:48.320 You know, we, uh, my wife's a state senator.

00:28:51.140 She'd actually passed the heartbeat bill and then also the trigger law.

00:28:55.340 So we already had taken the heartbeat bill all the way to the Supreme Court, November 1st, and we got a favorable ruling.

00:29:00.920 So 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.

00:29:08.280 With this, uh, the numbers should get even better.

00:29:11.280 And, and so, uh, I'm, I'm truly grateful for my wife for getting both of these passed through the Senate.

00:29:15.880 Obviously the House had to pass them as well, but, you know, we've got a problem in Texas.

00:29:20.540 The, the, the district attorney, some of them were, are Soros funded from some of the big counties like Dallas and Houston.

00:29:26.440 They're not going to, they're not going to criminally prosecute anybody.

00:29:29.540 They've already said, many of them have already said, we're not doing this.

00:29:32.720 The legislature can come back and fix that or not fix that.

00:29:35.700 That right now it's in some, many places we won't be able to criminally prosecute.

00:29:39.900 However, I do have the, the ability to civilly prosecute and the minimum fine for this is a hundred thousand dollars.

00:29:46.440 So I can tell you, we're going to use the full force of that law to, to make people pay.

00:29:52.800 If they're going to do abortions and hope that most DAs will prosecute. 0.82

00:29:57.000 And if not, that the legislature will give the, somebody else, maybe the, the attorney general's office, like many other states have concurrent jurisdiction.

00:30:05.420 So 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.

00:30:11.500 We can go back and have some type of accountability for them.

00:30:14.580 So they're not a rule and they're not the law unto themselves, which is what some of them think they are.

00:30:20.620 And the Austin city council, I understand some of their members, if not most want to decriminalize abortion in their city.

00:30:28.600 In response to the Texas trigger law is, is that legal?

00:30:33.680 No, 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.

00:30:38.940 I think like the Dallas County DA said it, there've been other DAs, probably Travis County, which is where Austin is.

00:30:44.960 So the, the, the way Texas works is the DAs are the only one that can prosecute crimes other than election fraud.

00:30:51.080 And 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.

00:30:59.360 We don't have that in Texas.

00:31:00.720 So 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.

00:31:09.160 That's all about show, not about anything that matters that I can tell.

00:31:13.460 So 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.

00:31:23.500 Well, we always give our guests here the last word, Mr. Attorney General.

00:31:28.440 And if you will, your concluding thoughts here on the great America show.

00:31:32.300 Well, as you mentioned, the Supreme court has come down with some pretty remarkable decisions in the last week or two.

00:31:38.100 And I, I'm just so grateful.

00:31:40.880 I mean, I didn't know how it was all going to work out.

00:31:42.680 I 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.

00:31:51.860 And, 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.

00:32:04.060 And there've been thousands of people who have given their lives to this cause.

00:32:08.400 And 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.

00:32:22.300 And, and, and, and, and you know what, America is a better place because of what has happened in the last week.

00:32:28.280 Amen.

00:32:29.440 Absolutely agree with you.

00:32:30.800 100%.

00:32:31.640 And 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.

00:32:42.000 It is so, uh, I don't know.

00:32:44.940 The 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.

00:32:58.340 Uh, and Ken Paxton, we thank you for all that you have done and for making, uh, contributing to the making of a better America.

00:33:08.120 Uh, God bless you.

00:33:09.820 And thanks so much for being with us here today.

00:33:12.000 Hey, well, thanks for having me on, especially given the importance of this issue to our country and to life.

00:33:19.140 Thank you.

00:33:20.300 Ken Paxton, attorney general, the great state of Texas.

00:33:24.300 Thanks everybody for being with us today.

00:33:26.760 Joining us tomorrow on the great America show will be the great American Carrie Campbell Severino.

00:33:32.480 She's president of the judicial crisis network.

00:33:35.280 As we take up the extraordinary and momentous Supreme court decisions of this past week.

00:33:42.000 On 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.

00:33:52.640 Please be with us for all that and more here tomorrow.

00:33:56.640 Till then, God bless you and God bless America.

00:34:01.480 America.

00:34:01.620 Now, as we'll find out.

00:34:09.220 Not good.

00:34:09.480 Stay tuned.

00:34:10.280 You're welcome.

00:34:11.260 Amen.

00:34:11.360 اي unhapple look at kcal the power of democracy and being with us.

00:34:12.540 Okay.

00:34:13.580 I'm away from that.

00:34:14.280 I'm gone to Turkey.

00:34:15.140 All right.

00:34:15.900 Could you, ema ereور about you gotta go?

00:34:16.220 I'll be with you and your figure.

00:34:17.040 Well, you're about to be with us.

00:34:17.740 Like, Walter surfaces.

00:34:18.140 How's your favorite.

00:34:18.720 iau, and that two times with your right?

00:34:19.840 You're about to be with you, yeah, and that one.

00:34:22.140 It possible, yeah.

00:34:22.740 Cause you will get hurt.

The Great America Show - June 29, 2022

AMERICA IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF HOW 5 JUSTICES RULED IN THE DOBBS CASE SAYS AG PAXTON

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