Mike Davis | 03-24-25
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In this episode of The Stone Zone, host Alex Blumberg is joined by Mike Davis and Jasmine Crockett to discuss AOC's call for a physical attack on Sen. Ted Cruz. They also discuss the recent ruling by D.C. District Court Judge Jillian Bosberg that the President does not have the authority to deport terrorists and other illegals, including criminals.
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Joining me now is Mike Davis. He is the former chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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He's also the founder and president of the Article 3 project. As chief counsel for nominations for
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the committee, he advised Chairman Chuck Grassley and other senators on the confirmation of federal
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judges and other senior executive branch appointees. Actually, Mike Davis has served in all three
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branches of the federal government, including working for President George W. Bush in the
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Justice Department, working for House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and also working for current Supreme
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Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. We are pleased to have Mike Davis with us today. Mike, I have to ask you
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about this spasm of what appears to me to be coordinated violence against Tesla, against Tesla
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dealerships, against Tesla charging stations, against Tesla drivers and their vehicles. We're talking
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about Molotov cocktails, shootings, bombings, vandalism, arson. And listen to Congresswoman
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Jasmine Crockett talk about this. So I'll make sure that I keep it short, but I am truly here
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for very selfish reasons. Starting with, on March 29th, it's my birthday. And all I want to see happen
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on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down. Yes. And then here's the even more troubling comment,
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where she calls for a physical attack on Senator Ted Cruz.
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I think that you punch. I think you punch. I think you're okay with punching. You know, I think,
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and I love Colin. And I think towards the end, he started to punch a little harder.
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But like, it's Ted Cruz. I mean, like this dude has to be knocked over the head, like hard, right?
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Like, there is no niceties with him. Like, at all. Like, you go clean off on him, right?
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Mike, welcome to the Stone Zone. Your reaction?
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I would say this to these terrorists and those who are inciting these terrorists. There are new
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sheriffs in town. And those sheriffs are Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Cash Patel.
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And they've already made it very clear publicly that they're not going to tolerate this. So if people
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want to make political violence the norm in America, they're going to end up in prison.
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And we have seen that these are coordinated attacks, that they're central funding.
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Just as we found recently that in this massive rally that AOC and Senator Bernie Sanders,
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as the millionaire senator from Vermont held, that there was mostly astroturf. This is, I think,
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agate prop. This is a psyop to create the misimpression that the American people don't support
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the drastic reforms that President Donald Trump has embarked on. I have to ask, off the top,
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the ruling by Judge Bosberg in the District of Columbia, in that district, that the president
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doesn't have the authority to deport terrorists and other illegals, including criminals.
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Is he not vastly overreaching, going well beyond his authority?
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Yes. D.C. Obama Judge Jeb Bosberg, his orders are both lawless and dangerous. They're lawless
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because, separate from statute, the president, as the commander-in-chief under Article II of our
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Constitution, has the absolute constitutional power, in fact, duty, to repel invasion of our
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country. And that's exactly what's going on with these foreign terrorists, Trende Aragua from
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Venezuela or MS-13 from El Salvador. These are the most vicious terrorists and criminals in the
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Western Hemisphere. They are invading our country. They are kidnapping, robbing, raping, torturing,
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murdering. And the president is fulfilling his constitutional duty and his campaign promise
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to get these monsters the hell out of America. And this Judge Bosberg does not have the power to order
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what he's ordering. At best, this would be a habeas petition from these terrorists in El Salvador
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and Texas, not these activist lawyers running to these activist judges in D.C. and getting these
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illegal, unlawful TROs and other injunctions. And it's dangerous because this judge held this hearing
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two Saturdays ago during the middle of the ongoing military intelligence and law enforcement operation
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that exposed the operation, putting American and online lives in grave danger. This Judge Bosberg ordered
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the planes turn around with terrorists, which is insane. We saw the security footprint in El Salvador with
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hundreds of officials ready to receive these terrorists. We probably did not have the same
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footprint in America because no one would ever imagine that a judge would open up a hearing during
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the middle of the operation and order planes turn around. He didn't know the fuel levels when it was
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flying over the Gulf of America. It's just absolutely insane that this judge ordered this, and it's dangerous
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because why would a foreign leader trust that a secret operation with the president will remain
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secret? Why would a foreign leader want to put his neck on the line to do a foreign operation with the
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president of the United States if an activist judge is going to expose it and sabotage it? In the meantime,
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you have other federal judges with other rulings. You have a judge in California ruling that the
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president cannot fire some 16,000 probationary, pardon me, he cannot fire federal employees at will and has
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ordered him to rehire some 1,600 probationary employees. Yet another judge has ruled that he cannot ban
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transgender people in our military. This is judicial tyranny, but for those who say,
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oh, those judges need to be impeached, impeaching a federal judge is an extraordinarily high bar. First
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of all, you need grounds. I'll let you address that. But it's also secondarily, it's much like the
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impeachment of a president. The impeachment in the House is merely an indictment. It would go to a trial
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in the Senate, and you would need a two-thirds vote to remove a federal judge. Very difficult, no?
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Yes, but I think it serves as an important attorney. Look, I've never called for a judge to be impeached.
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I have never called for anyone to ignore a judge's order until now, because what Boesburg did
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is not only so lawless, it is very dangerous. It put American and allied lives in jeopardy,
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and it hindered the president's ability to conduct foreign affairs then and in the future if you can't
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trust the president, right, if you're a foreign leader. And so I have called for both the president
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to ignore this lawless order. This judge is doubling down, trying to get operational details
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about the military mission to which this judge is absolutely not entitled. He says he has a security
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clearance. Well, guess what? You may have a security clearance, but you don't have the need to know.
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So you don't get this information, judge. It's not your job to meddle in military affairs. And I
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think impeachment, you're right, it's a high bar. It's unlikely to succeed in the Senate,
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but I want to make the process the punishment. I want this to serve as a deterrent. I was the
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chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee with the oversight portfolio
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for the federal judiciary. I know that calling for impeachments will get the chief justice's
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attention. And the point of this is to the chief justice, he needs to get his judicial house in
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order. And if he refuses to do it, Congress is going to do it for him, whether it's impeachment,
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whether it's stripping jurisdiction from these judges, whether it's taking away funding,
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there needs to be serious reforms to these activist judges courts. So this so they stop
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sabotaging the president. When we come back, we're going to talk to Mike Davis about these other
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illegal actions and whether President Trump's appeal to the Supreme Court can be successful.
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Whatever you do, you're in the stone zone. Don't touch that dial. We'll be right back with Mike Davis,
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former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the latest judicial tyranny. We're talking with Mike
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Davis, the former chief counsel for nominations to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He's also the
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founder and president of the Article III Project. That's A-3-P. The Article III Project defends
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constitutionalist judges and the rule of law. Mike, tell folks where they can go to get more
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information on your great organization. I appreciate that, Roger. Article3project.org,
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Article3project.org. It is a very worthy nonprofit. Mike is a fighter for the Constitution,
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for the America First agenda. Mike, the Justice Department has filed a motion to disqualify
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U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell from overseeing a lawsuit brought by the hard-left Democrat activist
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law firm Perkins Coy. Perkins Coy, of course, is the law firm that commissioned the Steele dossier.
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I'm very familiar with Judge Howell. First of all, remember that she ordered President Trump's
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own lawyers to testify against him in the so-called documents case, clear violation of the Sixth
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Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. She also essentially upheld the unconstitutional gag order
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on me when I went to trial in the Russian collusion hoax frame job in Washington, D.C.
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Nowhere does it say that if you were charged with a crime, you lose your First Amendment free speech
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rights. I filed a writ of mandamus, and she sat on it for eight months while I was savaged by CNN and
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the Washington Post, and then ruled just before trial that my motion was not yet ripe for a decision
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because I had not asked Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who placed the unconstitutional gag order on me,
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to remove it. So tell us about your views on this case. What are Judge Howell's conflicts of interest
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in the Perkins Coy matter? Well, what the Trump Justice Department has raised in its motion to
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disqualify Judge Beryl Howell is that she's just demonstrated repeated hostility to President Trump,
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and they've documented multiple instances where she's been publicly hostile. For example, she appeared
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at a women's white-collar defense association gala back in March of 20, or actually, I'm sorry,
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it had been November of 2023, and she delivered a speech there, and she talked about essentially
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how we're at a crossroads as a country, and essentially Trump was a dictator who was going
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to destroy America, is her thesis for her speech back in 2023. Well, obviously, if you think a party
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before you is a dictator, and you've got out there and said that he's a dictator, essentially,
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you're probably not going to give that party a fair shake before your courts.
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You know, I had that same experience in D.C. The judge, in my case, Amy Berman Jackson, praised
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the jury when they came back with a guilty verdict, and then when we learned that the jury forewoman,
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who had said during jury selection and throughout my trial, she was unfamiliar with me, she wasn't
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familiar with my case, had been attacking me and Donald Trump by name regarding the very case in
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which she had been selected as a juror. Thanks to the journalist Mike Cernovich, we learned this.
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The judge insisted that that was not evidence of bias, and she refused to give me a new trial.
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She also said in my sentencing that I had been convicted of covering up for Donald Trump. That
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was not a charge, and there was nothing to cover up. It was only later, after I was fully pardoned,
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and BuzzFeed sued the U.S. Justice Department to get the long-redacted, long-hidden final report from
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Robert Mueller, removing all the black marks that covered the sections about me, that Mueller himself
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admitted that he had found no evidence of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other
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crime, and that the problem with prosecuting me for any of those things was that there was no factual
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basis for the charge. Nonetheless, I have experienced the D.C. swap firsthand. Do you think now that the
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president has a good chance of getting the Supreme Court to step in in all of these federal actions,
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where you have politically motivated judges exceeding their authority and essentially
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challenging the executive authority given to the president of the United States in the Constitution?
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Well, I would say this to the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts. The legitimacy of the
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federal judiciary is on the line, and when the federal judiciary loses its legitimacy, with the
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American people, it loses everything. It does not have an army to enforce its orders. It relies on
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the executive branch. And you have President Trump campaigned. He campaigned on the fact that he's
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going to hire Elon Musk, set up the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, root out waste,
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fraud, and abuse, secure our border, and deport these illegal immigrants, particularly foreign terrorists,
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Trendy Aragua and international gangbangers, MS-13. And President Trump is doing the unthinkable. He's
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actually doing what he promised American voters he would do, and he's doing it fast. President Trump
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is not stealing legislative power from Congress under Article I. He's not stealing judicial power from the
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Supreme Court under Article III. He is exercising core article to executive power. And you have these
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activist judges who are serving as the last line of defense for the Trump resistance, because Trump
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won a broad electoral mandate, 312 electoral votes, all seven swing states, the popular votes. He kept
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the House. He won a comfortable margin in the Senate. The American people gave President Trump and his
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allies a mandate to do what he promised he would do. These activist judges are not exercising judicial
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under Article III. They are exercising judicial sabotage of the President's Article II powers. And if the
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Supreme Court does not stop this, if the Supreme Court does not stop these lawless, temporary restraining
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orders in name only, when they're actually legislation from the bench, and executive orders from the bench,
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if the Supreme Court does not get its judicial house in order, if the Chief Justice does not
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stop these activist judges from sabotaging the presidency, then it's going to be, this is going to end very
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badly for the judiciary. Because if the Chief Justice won't get its house in order, Congress will, through
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impeachment, through appropriations, through oversight, through jurisdiction stripping. This is
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unacceptable what these activist radical judges are doing. And it's only gotten worse because the Chief
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Justice Justice and Justice Barrett failed to do their job three weeks ago and stopped Judge Ali from
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sabotaging the President on foreign foreign aid. And that only had boldened. And now we have judges trying to
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sabotage military operations. It's unacceptable.
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It's extraordinary to watch the left insisting that Elon Musk has no authority, that he can't possibly dig
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into not millions, not billions, but trillions of dollars of waste, fraud, and corruption, when of
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course, his authority flows from the Chief Executive. The Chief Executive has the power to grant him that
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authority. The same people say that he wasn't elected. Well, Dr. Fauci was not elected. The
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difference is that Elon Musk's public service is probably costing him money, whereas Dr. Fauci and
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his wife, both federal bureaucrats, made millions and millions of dollars on the vaccinations that they
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were pushing and trying to mandate. Who could be in favor of waste, fraud, and corruption? It is a sure bet
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that those who are yelling the most have the most to hide. And USAID, which was, I think, nobly caused by
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President John F. Kennedy, as a way to fund Central and South American countries who are fighting communism, has
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morphed into a slush fund for the radical left. It is essential, the Supreme Act. I'm not much of a vote counterer. I've been
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disappointed in Judge Barrett, and I don't know at the end of the day whether this court will stand up and
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support what the American people overwhelmingly voted for in the last election. I think we have to pray for
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that. Again, Mike Davis joining us. Mike, tell us one more time where people can go to the Article 3
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Project that you so ably run. I appreciate that, Roger. It's article3project.org, article3project.org.
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You can follow us on social media, donate, and the most important thing your listeners can do is take
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action. All right. Many thanks to our guest, Mike Davis, and for all of our listeners here in the
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Zone. Until we meet again, God bless you, and Godspeed.