In this episode, Pastor Ken continues to discuss the problem of judges overstepping their authority and holding up President Trump's executive orders. The Supreme Court has now ruled that district judges cannot issue nationwide injunctions against Trump's immigration policies. What does this mean for the future of our nation?
00:02:07.360Another example would be LGBTQ curriculum in schools in the state of Maryland.
00:02:13.040A school board, actually, instead of a district judge.
00:02:15.660In this case, it was a school board that went against a law that was passed in Maryland
00:02:20.180that allowed for parents to withdraw their students, withdraw their children to opt out
00:02:26.560of certain lessons that contained LGBTQ propaganda.
00:02:31.800And now that law will go into effect and the parents will have that right over their children.
00:02:36.860It's been held up in the meantime. So this is a massive decision from the Supreme Court that allows our executive officials who are actually elected by the populace to be able to rule and carry out their job and push back on wickedness, particularly as it pertains to Donald Trump and ending birthright citizenship and hopefully, by God's grace, getting mass deportations.
00:02:59.700So where do we go from here? What are the next steps? We need more aggressive policies moving
00:03:05.360ahead. Now, the last thing that I'll mention is this, the dissenting judges. It was a 6-3 decision
00:03:10.820in the Supreme Court. Dissenting judges were Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor. And I would be
00:03:17.120remiss if I did not remind the listener, we're a Christian podcast. Isaiah says that one of the
00:03:24.020forms of God's judgment upon a conquered and rebellious people, God judging that nation,
00:03:30.480is that they would be ruled by women and children. I am aware that Coney Amy Barrett, she took the0.95
00:03:36.200right position. She even wrote the majority opinion on this matter. I'd like to see her go
00:03:41.700home too, right? Equal weights, equal measures. I'm going to be fair across the board, but it0.96
00:03:46.220should not come to us as a coincidence that you have three dissenting opinions, three people
00:03:50.440saying, no, let's keep the anchor babies, let's keep the immigrants, let's keep, you know, LGBT,
00:03:56.640you know, in schools, all these kinds of things. And the president, that the people of this nation
00:04:00.940actually chose to elect, he should have his hands tied behind his back. The three judges who
00:04:07.240dissented, again, Jackson, Kagan, Sotomayor, all three of them women, one of them, Kagan, is a Jew,
00:04:13.760and Sotomayor is a second-generation Puerto Rican immigrant. What we need, if we're going
00:04:21.620to succeed as a nation, we need many things. First and foremost, we need repentance of our sin and
00:04:26.460turning in faith to the Lord Jesus Christ. But in terms of practicalities, political solutions,
00:04:32.420we need men in office. We need them not to be Jewish or Islamic or anything else but Christian0.89
00:04:37.920men in office, and we need them to be American Christian men in office. I have a dream, brothers
00:04:44.140and sisters. It's a simple dream. I don't feel like it's that big of an ask, right? There's other
00:04:48.400things we could get more technical. I've talked in more specificities about my position in the past,
00:04:53.620but if I could just have three things, it would be this. When it comes to the political rulers,
00:04:57.360the civil magistrate in our nation, I would like them to be Christian American men. Christian
00:05:04.220American men. Think about how crazy that is. It's not just, oh, we're missing the Christian1.00
00:05:10.900piece because we're more of a secular. No, we don't have any of those three things. They're
00:05:15.220not men. They're not American. They're not American. We're looking at a mayor in New York0.99
00:05:21.260who is not an American. So we're looking at immigrants and women and Muslims and Jews and
00:05:29.000atheists as the rulers of our nation and wondering, what happened? What's the problem? What's going on
00:05:35.040here? It should not be a surprise. So let's tune into this episode now.
00:05:48.140All right, here we are, GA. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. We are going to do our best,
00:05:53.720and when I say we, I mean mostly me, to keep this episode on the short end. We all have
00:05:58.580obligations that we need to get to uh and it's friday and uh there's just a lot going on so i'm
00:06:03.840going to go ahead and let either michael or wes start off with this episode i'll jump right into
00:06:09.060the huge news i mean this ruling is incredible because what has happened so let's let's pull
00:06:14.400apart the executive order demanding an end to birthright citizenship so that was written in
00:06:18.680february and a number of different plaintiffs then filed suit saying hey we're seeking relief from
00:06:23.880what we view as an infringement upon our constitutional rights.
00:06:27.980These are people who were going to be deported
00:06:30.720or who were not going to be given citizenship.
00:06:32.720They're somehow going to be affected by it.
00:06:34.300So they said, we're somehow going to be affected by it.
00:06:36.280They appealed to the 14th Amendment, equal protection,
00:06:38.380and said, you need to put a halt on this.
00:08:17.480down hard with an incredible ruling saying okay sure maybe for that individual you can say listen
00:08:22.460she's been here so long we think she is is eligible for equal protection but it's for her only right
00:08:29.400all the rest of the people that is what the executive said and the executive has that power
00:08:34.600and so this is really an incredible ruling we're going to play a clip here from trump in a minute
00:08:39.040talking about it that all sudden opens up tons of other things and then we have of course the big
00:08:44.260beautiful bill senators are staying in dc over the weekend it mandates a minimum of a million
00:08:49.300deportations a year now that million a year is about 10 of what we really need correct right but
00:08:55.920but guys we've got to start somewhere and we can get into this in the end all of these these
00:09:00.860elections so putting at time money and effort into elections time and money into judicial review
00:09:05.660time in legal battles it can sometimes feel very frustrating you put all the money into an election
00:09:10.680and you don't win it or you elect someone and they get up and they betray you or you put money
00:09:15.560into a supreme court case and they end up ruling against a good example would be the abortion pills
00:09:19.900which the supreme court basically declined to say yeah they should stop being legal but we need time
00:09:26.460and these rulings today regardless of what you think about trump and we know the problems with
00:09:30.900the supreme court they're giving us time in god's grace if practically speaking we're talking about
00:09:37.200hundreds of thousands, if not a couple million people a year that are no longer eligible for
00:09:41.440citizenship just because they took a vacation in the United States. That's huge. That's millions
00:09:47.120more people over the next couple of years, even if we only have it for three years. That's millions
00:09:51.520more people that just simply won't be able to claim citizenship, won't be able to get the roots
00:09:56.000in here, won't be able to begin taking your social security, your this, your that. I'm white-pilled.
00:10:01.540It's Friday. I think this is great. And it kind of provides, all right, that was the next step.
00:10:06.080now we keep moving forward from there yeah right it's great yeah we we've talked about this before
00:10:10.740um i'll at least speak for myself um i i don't think i think the problems that we've created
00:10:15.280are too big i don't think we're going to be able to uh to fix them within the system uh not entirely
00:10:20.020so i don't i don't think we can just democracy our way out of this um i don't think we just got
00:10:24.220elect good people yeah yeah exactly i've thought that um you know when i was younger and and knew
00:10:30.180less of what was going on but i i just i don't think that's going to happen uh because i think
00:10:34.840that just even our system of government and you know a constitutional republic is what we're
00:10:39.300supposed to have uh that like all of our founders said that's that's fit for a particular type of
00:10:43.900person namely a moral upstanding religious person and we don't have that type of person today we are
00:10:49.680a nation filled with degenerates that said uh that that doesn't mean we shouldn't be accelerationist
00:10:55.520right so even if we think that this isn't going to get fixed um by just you know democracy you
00:11:00.940you know, even harder. And instead, it's probably going to get fixed by some kind of cataclysmic
00:11:06.340event, you know, some Cromwellian figure that takes power or balkanizing, you know, where
00:11:11.100the country ends up getting split up into three or four or five different countries. Even if you
00:11:17.140think that that's more likely, and you're a student of history, and you see that as being
00:11:22.020the most probable solution to the problems and what will likely occur, still, I don't want the
00:11:28.400nation. I have children. I don't want the nation to crash and burn. I don't want there to be blood
00:11:31.900in the streets. I don't want a civil war. Exactly. I don't want any of those things. And so if we
00:11:36.140keep heading that direction towards some kind of American Caesar or Balkanizing or whatever it is,0.87
00:11:41.540I would still like that to be as clean and peaceful of a process towards that switch0.94
00:11:46.960as possible. I would like it to be as few casualties, as few deaths as absolutely possible.
00:11:54.300So if we can, you know, give ourselves, buy ourselves a little bit of time by slowing immigration and deporting a bunch of people and these kinds of things as we continue to battle out, I think that that is a positive and that that's something that all of us, regardless of where you're at on the right, pretty much everybody who's right wing should be able to say, yeah, this is a win, we need more, but this is a win and we're grateful.
00:12:22.280Yeah. And I wanted to mention, this is a really important ruling that has needed to happen for a long time, because this little maneuver where a district judge gives a national injunction on an executive order or something like that, this is a newer idea.
00:12:41.820And it actually was never, you know, like if some of you are familiar with something like Robert's Rules of Order, which is how a board has to conduct itself.
00:12:52.120They agree these are the rules that we're going to use whenever we meet.
00:12:55.760We'll have motions, we'll have seconds, all of those sorts of things.
00:12:58.900Organizations have rules that they use to conduct their business.
00:13:03.180and there are certain rules for what judges are allowed to do what they're allowed to strike down
00:13:10.800that have just been built up over time that weren't part of the constitution but just over time they
00:13:15.740decided like this would be a good rule i'm not saying all of them have been good rules like
00:13:19.420judicial review i think was a problem but my point is this this thing where a small district judge
00:13:26.860can give an injunction that applies to a national group, a national class, a national
00:13:33.500kind of target is new. And it's never been introduced into the rules for how the government
00:13:41.460runs itself. And so we have actually needed clarity on this point for a long time. It was
00:13:46.260in the 1960s with the Civil Rights Act that judges first, they weren't giving national injunctions,
00:13:53.620but they were giving large injunctions to a school district.
00:14:21.040So from the 60s, and then it has just branched out until in the early 2000s and the 2010s was really when judges started giving national injunctions that would countermand an executive order for the entire country.
00:14:36.480And so this is something that that has done a lot of damage to just how presidents are able to.
00:14:44.540And and to be fair, conservative judges and liberal judges have done this against Republican presidents and Democratic presidents through the 2010s.
00:14:53.140nevertheless this is something that has that has yet to be decided and has really been kind of a
00:14:59.760loophole that courts have been able to exploit to have one judge basically impose his own view of
00:15:06.400the law or politics on the entire country which which when when i think uh uh amy coney barrett
00:15:13.380quoted ketanji brown jackson ketanji brown jackson had said at one point that we don't want um
00:15:21.500presidents to have um unlimited authority and we don't want judges to have it what really happens
00:15:27.420is we've just replaced the unlimited authority that the president is not supposed to have
00:15:31.760with a district judge who now speaks for for the entire country yeah i think amy said something
00:15:38.280along the lines of like um you know the this uh uh unharnessed uh executive power yeah it's like
00:15:45.780yeah so let's read this quote from her this is why we put on the flip side it's just unharnessed
00:15:50.560judicial power yeah there it is this is one of the greatest dunks yeah just two sentence dunks
00:15:55.900that you've probably i'd prefer to see it from a legal side i know you know honestly probably
00:16:00.780clarence thomas wrote that that's true i'll include that makes it better and it's because
00:16:04.820the majority collaborate clarence thomas they do collaborate he would be the guy on the supreme
00:16:09.380court well he's dunk a ball you know so i feel like i i would like to believe it's from clarence
00:16:14.460on the texas porn bill right oh good for him on the majority and kagan on the dissent he's my guy
00:16:31.000We will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself.
00:17:06.280But the judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation.
00:17:12.760In fact, sometimes the law prohibits the judiciary from doing so.
00:17:15.920See, for example, Mayberry versus Madison.
00:17:18.140Observing, going down, observing the limits on judicial authority, including as relevant here, the boundaries of the Judiciary Act of 1789 is required by a judge's oath to follow that law.
00:17:28.900And it's funny, she says again, Justice Jackson skips over that part because analyzing the governing statutes involves boring legalese.
00:17:35.580And she literally quotes her as in, guys, the weight of the Constitution, the weight of the original setup of judges, the weight even of the judge's oath of office, all testify against.
00:17:47.140You cannot have a judge in Hawaii at 2 a.m. in the morning say you can't deport 2 million people that are here illegally.
00:17:57.260Yep. Yeah. So really an important rule that I guess what we're saying is it seems most likely that this will unclog or unblockade a lot of the executive orders in other areas that Trump has has put into place.
00:18:16.720So he theoretically will be able to issue an executive order, and it won't be able to be blocked nationally by one district judge.
00:18:26.840So it's beyond, even though the deportation case that this came from is an important one that we want to win, it's much bigger than that.
00:18:35.200It really, you know, we need to get spending still, like you mentioned, Wes.
00:18:40.820But this is a huge impediment to the president being able to carry out what he's trying to do that theoretically has been lifted at this point.
00:18:50.380Let's watch a clip from him and then we'll go to our commercial break.
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00:26:36.960Okay. So one of the things that was notable about that decision was that it was six to three.
00:26:43.240And so all the quote and West, you said this already, the quote unquote conservative judges sided with with the administration on this question.
00:26:52.000Sometimes a legal case will come through the Supreme Court and it'll be a nine to zero decision.
00:26:57.880And that's usually on some procedure that, you know, all sides have to just agree.
00:27:02.620Yeah, like that was being misapplied. That was a procedure that clearly is wrong.
00:27:06.380But when you see a six to three decision, usually with the court that we have right now, that's an indication of sanity versus insanity, right?
00:27:16.520Even with our liberal, quote unquote, conservative justices, if all six of them side on one side of an issue, we don't get one or two of them going with the liberals.
00:27:25.600That's usually a pretty clear sign that even they have to recognize that this has to be the way that life and society and reality works.
00:27:37.620So the reason I'm bringing that up is the Supreme Court hears a lot of cases and then it issues rulings in batches.
00:27:44.540Well, a lot of rulings came out today, today, Friday the 27th.
00:27:49.180And so we're going to highlight a few of them that just came through.
00:27:52.820But the thing to note with this, these are not all of them that came through.
00:27:56.480I think there were like 20 or something like that.
00:27:59.000But the thing to note with this is all of these that we have on the screen were also 6-3 decisions.
00:28:05.780All the conservatives sided against the liberal judges in deciding this.
00:45:21.420So Michael and I are good friends and we have, you know, offline, we have regular meetups and we'll talk about where we're at and the whole voice, you know, like if he has a different opinion or if he's, you know, I just, I don't know if that's right, you know, and then I'll give my reasoning and sometimes we'll agree.
00:45:39.140But then there's other times where we disagree, but neither of us anathematizing either one,
00:45:44.040both of us with immense respect for one another as brothers in Christ.
00:45:49.120But it puts him in this, it's kind of an unfair situation is what I've come to realize,
00:45:54.520because I have kind of, I just haven't wanted you to go.
00:45:57.480So I keep saying like, yeah, okay, you want to transition out and I'll start working on
00:46:02.400that transition first thing in 2030, you know, I'll get right on it, you know, in the year
00:46:06.420of our lord 2035 you know um so i've been you know kind of dragging my feet and uh and he's like
00:46:11.560joel i i feel like i need to go and and one of the things that's helped me is him helping me see
00:46:16.360that when he does have a dissenting opinion and he could be right and we could be wrong or vice
00:46:21.180versa but when he does have a dissenting opinion he's he's trying like and i have never gave you
00:46:26.120know said you know like to west or michael that they can't ever disagree with me so i want to be
00:46:30.460clear with that but still even though that's not like some law of the land it's not a requirement
00:46:35.180it he's he's still you know he's just torn in this space of like i don't want the whole podcast to
00:46:41.400end up becoming a debate and so so he's sitting there trying not to argue but then if he doesn't
00:46:47.680voice his dissent if he doesn't voice that he disagrees then it's like he's on camera um right
00:46:54.000alongside us and if he's not dissenting then it then it comes across as though he has all the
00:46:59.000same views as we do and he doesn't and so it's not fair for you know when i'm going viral you
00:47:04.660know right wing watch a couple times but it's not fair if like right wing watch is picking me up you
00:47:09.660know and i'm going uber viral and the camera happens in that clip to shift to the wide shot
00:47:15.080and michael's sitting next to me he's like and he's trying his best yeah exactly he's trying his
00:47:21.860best not to like not to be argumentative and he doesn't want to be a concern bro because he's not
00:47:26.800he always voices these things very maturely and he never anathematizes or anything like that so
00:47:32.920he's trying not to be a concern bro but on the other hand he's like yeah Joel I don't know if I
00:47:36.180necessarily want to um want you to to uh drag me in front of millions of people on your viral
00:47:42.440circuits when I don't even agree with the position that you're espousing you know so it's not really
00:47:47.500fair for him to um you know it's it's either so I'm either either a concern bro on the show you
00:47:55.360know designated concern bro uh so now I have voiced my dissent so now I'm I'm not you know
00:48:00.200getting dragged you know when you get dragged on the internet i'm not getting dragged for an opinion
00:48:04.060that i don't even hold uh but then i'm a concerned bro and i'm kind of dragging back the show and it
00:48:09.500becomes more of a debate and less of like a positive vision of we think this and we're trying
00:48:14.560to push forward towards that um and so yeah so the more we've talked about it michael has been
00:48:19.360very gracious and helped me to see um he's basically kind of like a genie in aladdin he's
00:48:25.380like you know free me you know yeah you have a third wish like set me free joel let me let me
00:48:31.040just do my thing and so anyway so we love each other my wife loves his wife our families are
00:48:35.640close all those kinds of things his oldest daughter will occasionally babysit our kids
00:48:39.220and so um everything is my kids do piano lessons with your mom that's right my mom teaches piano
00:48:44.080lessons with your kids so uh so everything is good uh over here there was one thing that tipped it
00:48:48.640over the edge though that i just want to address the rumors i bought a subaru no that's not true
00:48:54.060i did not buy a subaru yeah he's like the one thing that uh tipped it over edge you would think
00:48:58.220it was nick fuentes in the thumbnail but it was actually the fact that he bought a subaru and we
00:49:02.680kicked him off and i bought a tesla last week and he's just like this is going too many different0.70
00:49:06.620directions west is tesla i'm tesla maxing and i'm super maxing too many gay cars out there um so0.62
00:49:12.020anyway so that we wanted to let you guys know about that and then a lot of these things we want
00:49:16.020to keep close to the chest uh because uh there's more specificity that we're not ready to include
00:49:22.500at this juncture and so we're going to wait a little bit later but i'll give you kind of some
00:49:26.660generalities of future vision for right response um we are going to continue kind of much the same
00:49:32.480so what will the show be like starting next week um it's going to be me and wesley todd and then
00:49:38.040occasionally we're going to be piping in different guys you guys have seen when we have people
00:49:41.080remotely uh join and then there'll be other times where uh you guys saw when michael was out on
00:49:46.120vacation this last week we had uh antonio uh join us antonio's a member of good standing in our
00:49:51.300church and um and and so uh antonio kind of michael now is officially going to be transitioning out
00:49:57.640and antonio is not a full transition in but kind of um coming coming in a little bit uh because he's
00:50:05.140he still has other endeavors and and other um uh work responsibilities and things like that but we
00:50:10.380are going to be moving towards uh antonio being more of kind of our our third host and so for the
00:50:17.100remainder of this year you'll see more of him but you won't necessarily see him every episode but
00:50:21.540you'll see more of Antonio and we think he's done a great job and has some good things to say
00:50:25.980and then you also will see us you know probably piping in some more guests getting some more
00:50:30.320voices outside of right response ministries and then in terms of topics and themes much the same
00:50:35.580political cultural theological that said the new year this is what I can't really divulge at this
00:50:42.140point, but we have massive plans for the year of our Lord, 2026. And we're going to be starting
00:50:48.080the very first week of January. And we have secured funds, funding, and all these different
00:50:56.260things that we need in order to do some things that I think will be shocking and surprising
00:51:03.160for everyone. And I think incredibly exciting for everyone. So Right Response is going to be taking
00:51:09.900it um to a whole nother level and not just you know a new studio although it actually does
00:51:14.640involve a new studio but not just like uh we've in the past it's like we upgrade our studio you
00:51:18.980know or we move to you know back in the day it was just me you know we moved to co-host
00:51:23.500but this is going to be uh blow all that out of the water so it's not just a studio change and
00:51:28.880not just maybe a new co-host um but some some big changes um big projects uh for uh for right
00:51:37.360response. And so we're excited about that. And we will probably and we'll give more announcements as
00:51:42.680we get closer. We still have, you know, six months, we're only halfway through this year. And this
00:51:46.740won't be until again, the first week of January. But we probably just kind of preparing you guys
00:51:52.000ahead of time. We're going to just keep doing what we're doing with Antonio popping in with guests,
00:51:57.040you know, piping in remotely, and probably go all the way through November. And then we will probably
00:52:03.860for the month of december go dark as the kids say not completely we'll probably do some reruns
00:52:09.720maybe have a few pre-recorded episodes uh but kind of take a break for instead of just the
00:52:15.080holidays at the end of the month um pretty much the entirety of that month to set everything in
00:52:20.960order and then uh and then launch uh with our our brand new idea that we have our vision that we have