Ep. 2228 - STILL WINNING: Senate Passes Big, Beautiful Bill, PLUS Supreme Court Sides With Trump!

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Alrighty, folks, so the winds keep coming for President Trump. On Saturday night, Senate Republicans finally passed their version of the big, beautiful bill, the one big, beautiful bill. This is the tax bill that is going to retain President Trump's tax cuts from 2017.

It is also going to provide funding for building the wall and other immigration enforcement matters. It is going to provide certain subsidies in certain areas, going to take away subsidies in other areas. The vote was incredibly close. Two GOP senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky, of course, of course, and Tom Tillis of North Carolina, who opposed some of the cuts to future spending in Medicaid in particular. They opposed. But the bill passed 51-49 in terms of starting debate.

On the legislation, that means that in all likelihood, this bill is going to come to a vote in the House of Representatives. Sometime this week, President Trump's goal of getting this thing done by July 4th is going to be kept, according to Politico. The vote came after a day-long scramble by GOP leaders to win over several Republican senators who were viewed as undecided or who had vowed to block debate over their opposition to pieces of the bill.

including an extended negotiating session that unfolded with various senators and Vice President J.D. Vance while the vote was underway. Now again, Ron Johnson, Senator Ron Johnson, he's been a guest on the program of Wisconsin. He had opposed the bill. He apparently won a promise of an amendment vote related to the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. That proposal would end the 90 percent federal cost share for new enrollees under that arrangement, which got one of the big.

aspects of Obamacare. Basically, it says that if the states want Obamacare, they're going to pay more for Obamacare. Why should the federal government have to subsidize all of that? Senate Majority Leader John Thune declined to comment on those concessions, but Johnson suggested that Thune and Trump would support the amendment which had first been promoted by Florida Senator Rick Scott. So there are enough sort of giveaways to the fiscal hawk wing to get Ron Johnson on board.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah also was part of the huddle, and he told reporters that part of the conversation focused on deficit reduction. Now again. There could theoretically be a blow up before this is all said and done. But President Trump personally intervened Friday and Saturday to shore up the whip count. He did aggressively lobby Tom Tillis on Friday night and then he attacked him publicly, but he lobbied some of the other senators as well.

Apparently, J.D. Vance interceded after the vote was called to win over Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, and then he went to work on the other holdouts as well. Senator Josh Howley also jumped on board. So, again. We'll see what the final result here is. However, it looks like the big, beautiful bill is moving toward passage. Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, he said, listen, it's time to vote. Enough of this. Look, I believe in teamwork.

It gives you somebody to blame. But at some point, you've got to make a decision. Now, our quarterbacks are John Thune and Mike Crapo. They're both rock stars. They're trying to make everybody happy. It can't be done. We have cussed and discussed and re-discussed. We need to start voting. Everybody needs to adult real hard. And the jackassery has to stop. I have encouraged John and Mike to tell everyone, look, we're going to start voting tomorrow at noon. If you're not happy.

offer an amendment. We'll have a full amendment process. But here's the bottom line. In any legislation of this magnitude, Some people are just going to have to settle for a ham and egg sandwich without the ham. That's just the nature of the beast. And I think that if you put everybody to the test and say, look, this is why God made votes.

It's time. Vote. I think the bill will pass. Senator Kennedy is correct about that. As I said from the very outset, with regard to the one big, beautiful bill, the choices were this. High taxes and high spending.

or less high taxes and slightly lower spending than that. Those were the choices. There was no bill here that was going to fix America's massive deficit problem or massive debt problem. There is not the support in the American body politic for that sort of thing. The real changes that need to be made.

are not going to be made around the edges. There's not even support to go back to 2019 levels of spending, which again, would not fix our national debt. It would be a lot better, but it wasn't going to fix our national debt. Senator Katie Britt of Alabama also came out praising the big, beautiful bill. Here she was.

We have been working tirelessly. I think today we finished our 51st meeting on the big, beautiful bill, talking about different perspectives, trying to make sure that it's the very best product for the American people. We're going to ensure that we secure our border, that that's not just.

for now that what we're doing that for generations to come we're going to make sure that the defense capabilities are of the utmost importance and that our warfighter is the best trained equipped and ready across the planet i think we have seen over the last several weeks and this week in particular

How important that is. We're going to unleash American energy, Kellyanne. We know it's important not only for our economy, but it's also important for national security. And then when you look at the tax breaks that we're going to have for every day, hard working.

President Trump has ensured, whether it's no tax on tips or no tax on overtime, that we are putting the American people first. We're giving them more of their hard earned money right back in their pocket. And we're going to make significant strides. Again, a lot of this is true. And some of the moderates in the House and in the Senate have come around. So, of course, have some of the fiscal hawks. Mike Lawlor, who is a sort of holdout on the...

Bill, given the fact that he's from New York and a lot of the Congress people from New York are Republican, are worried about losing their districts if they do not get SALT deductions that are high enough. SALT, of course, are state and local tax deductions taken before the federal tax income is actually established.

He came out in a Saturday interview and said he supported the latest version of the state and local tax deduction in the Senate's megabill, praising it as a big win. He said in negotiation, you've got to know how to define a win and to take yes for an answer.

The latest Senate bill raises the SALT deduction up to $40,000 through 2029. Now, again, these are policies I don't like. I don't like the state and local tax deduction. I think it's ridiculous. I think it's insane that the taxpayers of Florida who do not pay. A state income tax are supposed to subsidize people who live in New York and California so that the state of New York or the state of California can continue to maintain these massively high taxes on their own citizens. With that said.

When you make a big piece of legislation, it is a game of horse trading and swapping and all the rest. And it's actually gotten worse since the death of so-called earmarks. So earmarks were all those things everybody hated. where a senator would have a bridge named after him in a federal bill, and was like, ah, that's super corrupt, it's super terrible. Okay, but here's the problem.

Everybody in Congress has to show their district they brought home the bacon. So it either comes home in the form of a post office named after them, or it comes in the form of a gigantic provision that provides for state and local tax deductions.

I'd much rather have the post office named for Mike Lawlor in his local district than have this gigantic state and local tax deduction in the state of New York. But they got rid of your marks, and thus you are stuck with actually bigger spending in many ways than you would have had.

If you just had the sort of Christmas tree where people put ornaments on the Christmas tree. And meanwhile, Josh Hawley, who was a holdout on the big, beautiful bill, he said on Saturday that he would back the signature legislation. He said, I'm going to vote yes on the bill.

He said he was satisfied by a change that would help delay implementing changes to the provider tax language, which most states use to help cover Medicaid costs. He said he was also encouraged by an increase in the rural hospital fund, which means his state will get more Medicaid funding for the next four years.

So again, much of the sort of solve here was bigger spending in certain areas. Now, the place that really did get slapped was green energy. And this led Elon Musk to come out and condemn the bill.

Again, quote, the latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country. He called it utterly insane and destructive to give handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future. Now, again. One of the problems for Elon and for many of the people in sort of the tech space in the bill is that the bill gets rid of a lot of tax subsidies for...

electric vehicles. It does provide certain tax subsidies for the coal industry. It also apparently provides a sort of excise tax on wind farms and solar cells past 2027. So the bill... is, in fact, a slap against green energy. But here's the question. Can green energy actually live up to its promise? Or is it going to have to be subsidized by the American taxpayer forever?

What is the goal here? Bottom line is this for all of this. Again, the horse trading will continue. There will be many more changes before we reach the final version of this bill, because once it passes the Senate, the House has already passed its own version. Then they have to go to reconciliation. A committee gets put together. They negotiate.

I'm sure they're going to be negotiating all through the night, many times this week until this thing actually gets passed. But if the bill were not to pass, you would see the severe possibility of a true economic downturn. Because the reality is that there's some economic data suggesting that a downturn may be headed for us anyway. And there's some weakening economic data, even despite the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hitting all-time highs right now, that it's recovering.

according to the Wall Street Journal. Investors may not think the economy is taking off, but they're probably relieved the worst-case scenarios feared in recent months have not yet come to pass. Trump's tariffs, deportations, and cuts to the federal bureaucracy have bent the economy, but they haven't broken it.

The S&P 500 plummeted 19% from its previous high in February to its 2025 low on April 8th. Behind that drop, fears that Trump's threatened tariffs of his highs 145% on China and 50% on other major trading partners would send inflation and interest rates up.

sat business and consumer confidence and sparked a recession. Instead, President Trump, of course, significantly dialed back a lot of those gigantic tariffs. In recent months, business confidence fell amid those tariff threats, but businesses kept investing in equipment, factories.

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The last thing President Trump wants or needs is an economic downturn. The big, beautiful bill will provide a sense of stasis and calm to the markets that has been lacking for the past several months. So that's a big victory for President Trump. It's a huge victory for Senate Majority Leader Thune. If the Republicans are able to cobble together a majority in a Senate where they have only 53 seats and in a House where they have a majority by a couple of seats, that is indeed.

a piece of tremendous legislative leisure domain. By both Speaker of the House Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Thune, President Trump gets another huge victory. Speaking of huge victories, on Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three separate rulings, all of which benefit...

people who are conservative, one of which benefits the Trump administration in particular. So the most hotly covered of these particular opinions is Trump versus Casa Inc. This is a case connected with the executive order that President Trump issued.

immediately upon entering office, suggesting that the executive branch should no longer recognize, quote unquote, birthright citizenship for people who do not have at least one parent who's an American citizen. So the basic idea is that if you come across the border illegally.

with your spouse, and then you drop a baby in the United States. That baby should no longer be considered a citizen. Now, there are two real issues here. One is the meaning of birthright citizenship. And that is an interesting, fascinating argument about the meaning of the clause. In the 14th Amendment, Clause 1 and Section 201 of the Nationality Act of 1940, which suggests that you have to be subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

in order to be a citizen of the United States. So if you're a Mexican citizen and you are subject to the jurisdiction of Mexico, but you're here illegally and therefore not subject to the jurisdiction of American law in the same way as a citizen, really.

You should not be treated as a citizen and neither should the baby that you have in the United States. That's the case made by the Trump administration. On the other side of the ledger, people will argue that since essentially the beginning of the 20th century. Birthright citizenship has been the predicate law for immigrants coming to the United States ever since a Supreme Court case called Wom Kim Ark. Okay, but...

That particular matter was put to the side in this case. The real question was whether a district court judge can issue a nationwide injunction to stop the implementation of the executive order. So here the question is one that we've seen over and over and over again. That question is, can a district court judge say, based on a single case of California or New York or Hawaii, that all across the country, an executive order or piece of legislation...

cannot go into effect based on a single district court judge somewhere out there. And the answer the court found is absolutely not. That's ridiculous. You cannot have individual district court judges moving beyond the scope of their authority

in order to declare nationwide injunctions. Essentially, if you come to a district court judge and you say this law has violated my rights, the district court can put an injunction on the federal government with regard to you, you are the plaintiff, but it can't put an injunction.

on everyone across the entire land vis-a-vis this law. The opinion was delivered by Amy Coney Barrett. So first of all, I'd like to point out that all the people who were ripping on Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society.

Full disclosure, I was a member of the Federalist Society when I was in law school because it was the conservative institution and is the conservative institution for law students and legal professionals. People who are ripping on Leonard Leo for suggesting Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court of the United States.

Let me just point out that just because she doesn't vote the way you want on every single case does not make her David Souter. It does not make her Justice Breyer. She is a very textualist judge. So she wrote the opinion of the court. And it is a very clear opinion. She says that the United States courts are not capable of simply issuing at the district court level nationwide injunctions. Why? Well, because there is no actual predicate.

Congress has never granted federal courts the authority to universally enjoin the enforcement of an executive or legislative policy, as she says in this opinion. She says the government. is likely to succeed on the merits of its argument regarding the scope of relief. A universal injunction can only be justified as an exercise of equitable authority, but Congress has never granted federal courts that sort of power.

The Judiciary Act of 1789 endowed federal courts with jurisdiction over all suits in equity. And still today, the statute is what authorizes the federal courts to issue equitable remedies. But that is not total equitable authority. So.

In other words, they would have to have a special delegated authority, quote, neither the universal injunction nor any analogous form of relief was available in the High Court of Chancery in England at the time of the founding. Equity offered a mechanism for the crown to secure justice. where it would not be secured by ordinary and existing processes of law. But that never extended to the idea of gigantic nationwide injunctions, even going all the way back to the founding era.

As Justice Barrett points out in a 6-3 majority for the court, that there is no longstanding record. of universal nationwide injunctions being issued by courts. The universal injunction was conspicuously non-existent for most of our nation's history. Its absence from 18th and 19th century equity practice settles the question of judicial authority.

That the absence continued into the 20th century renders any claim of historical pedigree still more implausible. Even during the deluge of constitutional litigation that occurred in the wake of ex parte young throughout the Lochner era at the dawn of the New Deal, universal injunctions were nowhere. to be found. So as Justice Barrett points out, there is no serious history of a nationwide injunction issued by a district court. You cannot just have one judge in Los Angeles, California.

issue an injunction on all national law based on a singular case brought before the court. So there is a rather hilarious portion of this opinion. And that is where Justice Barrett, as well as the rest of the court, absolutely rips into Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has seized.

the high ground as the worst member of the court. So I thought it was Sonia Sotomayor by a long shot. Sonia Sotomayor is an awful justice, truly dumb. She writes horrible opinions. Elena Kagan, who is dean of the Harvard Law School and I was there, is a smart person with whom I disagree.

Justice Sotomayor has evidenced zero smarts. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has evidenced not only zero smarts, but zero actual principles. So this opinion just rips apart Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent, which. Honestly, it sounds like it was written by a first year law school student who is familiar with online memory, but not with law. The opinion says Justice Jackson chooses a startling line of attack that is tethered neither to any sources nor, frankly, any doctrine whatsoever.

Waving away attention to the limits on judicial power as a mind-numbingly technical query, she offers a vision. of the judicial role that would make even the most ardent offender of judicial supremacy blush. In her telling, the fundamental role of courts is to order everyone to follow the law full stop.

And, she warns, if courts lack the power to require the executive to adhere to law universally, courts will leave a gash in the basic tenets of our founding charter that could turn out to be a mortal wound. Rhetoric aside, says the opinion.

Justice Jackson's position is difficult to pin down. She might be arguing that universal injunctions are appropriate, even required, whenever the defendant is part of the executive branch. If so, her position goes far beyond the mainstream defense of universal injunctions. At best as we can tell, though, her argument is more extreme still, because its logic does not depend on the entry of a universal injunction.

Justice Jackson appears to believe the reasoning behind any court order demands universal adherence, at least where the executive is concerned. In her law-declaring vision of the judicial function, a district court's opinion is not just persuasive, but has the legal force of a judgment. Once a single district court deems executive conduct unlawful, it has stated what the law requires, and the executive must conform to that view, ceasing its enforcement of the law against anyone, anywhere.

We will not dwell on Justice Jackson's arguments as Justice Barrett, which is at odds with more than two centuries worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this. Justice Jackson decries an imperial executive while embracing an imperial judiciary.

No one disputes the executive has a duty to follow the law, but the judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation. In fact, sometimes the law prohibits the judiciary from doing so. See Marbury versus Madison. What a slap that is just for the lawyers in the crowd. Marbury versus Madison is like the number one constitutional law case because it establishes the idea of Supreme Court judicial oversight of legislative action or executive action.

Right. That is the idea of Marbury versus Madison and established judicial review. But what it found was that James Madison, who was then president, had violated the law. But but it also held that the court couldn't actually issue a writ of mandamus ordering him to follow it. So that is such a, that's like you're a first year law school student. And so you do not get to lecture us.

If you don't know Marbury versus Madison, you just don't know what the hell you're talking about is basically the idea here. What a brutal put down by the majority of the court against Justice Jackson. And again, her dissent is indeed quite. Astonishing. Not only is it laden with terrible arguments, but it is written with actual memes. I mean, she actually says at one point, as I understand the concern.

In this clash over the respective powers of two coordinate branches of government, the majority sees a power grab, but not by a presumably lawless executive choosing to act in a manner that flouts the plaintext of the Constitution. Instead, to the majority, the power-hungry actors are... Wait for it, the district courts. Okay, like, can I just point out, putting wait for it in a Supreme Court opinion like that, between two ellipses, you're not writing for X.com, Justice Jackson.

You're making a ridiculous argument, but you're arguing it in the worst possible way also. So just a brutal fate for Justice Jackson in that particular case. But what does that mean? Well, it means that the presidents of the United States can... Now move forward with the implementation of his executive orders until the Supreme Court weighs in on the actual law at issue for the whole country, which is how the appellate courts work.

So in other words, this does not mean that President Trump can now simply expel all kids who are born of illegal immigrant parents. That's going to be appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court. It'll be ruled on in October and the court will probably find, I would imagine, by maybe a vote to seven to two or six to three, that actually birthright citizenship is what the Constitution orders or at least what precedent requires. It'd be kind of shocking if the Supreme Court...

found the other way, regardless of my feelings about the issue. And for the record, I think that actually birthright citizenship is not mandated by the Constitution. President Trump, for his part, put out a statement on Truth Social, quote, giant win in the U.S. Supreme Court. Even the birthright citizenship hoax has been indirectly hit hard. It had to do with the babies of slaves. Same year, not the scamming of our immigration.

process. What he means by that is that birthright citizenship is not what is meant by the 14th Amendment when it says that people who are born or naturalized in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. He means correctly, that enslaved people are citizens. That's what the 14th Amendment was designed to do. Congratulations to Attorney General Pambani, Solicitor General John Tauer, and the entire DOJ.

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Some of the cases we're talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore. That was meant for the babies of slaves. It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country. on a vacation this was in fact it was the same date the exact same date the end of the civil war it was meant for the babies of slaves and it's so clean and so obvious but

This lets us go there and finally win that case because hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship, and it wasn't meant for that reason. It was meant for the babies of slaves. So thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with these numerous policies and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding.

suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries and numerous other priorities of the American people. We have so many of them. And so, again, President Trump triumphal about this Pambani, the attorney general, she points out that these nationwide injunctions are basically coming from some of the most liberal courts in the country. To put this in perspective.

There are 94 federal judicial districts. Five of those districts throughout this country held 35 of the nationwide injunctions. Think about that. 94 districts and 35 out of the 40 opinions with nationwide injunctions came from five liberal districts in this country. No longer. So.

She is right about that. Chief Justice Roberts made a good point. So Chief Justice, again, I oppose his nomination. I don't think he's been an amazing justice. I think that he is more of a judicial pragmatist than he is a true textualist or originalist. But he makes the point that.

It's not your job to decide in advance what the outcome of the case is going to be. It's your job to actually look at the case. So this is a slap against Ketanji Brown Jackson, among others. I don't start by saying if. this comes out this way, this thing is going to happen, and that's a bad thing as opposed to that. You start out with your rules about construction, about the application of precedent and all that. Now, that leads you to a result that you look at and say, well, that's...

That can't be. That's pretty bad. Then you want to go back and look at your suppositions. But, you know, sometimes the result is certainly not maybe one you would have liked, and maybe it's one that seems pretty surprising. But you do have to keep in mind it's not your job to decide what the right results should look like. It's your job to do the legal analysis to the best you can.

If it leads to some extraordinarily improbable result, then you want to go back and take another look at it. But I don't start from what the result looks like and go backwards.

That is the way that you're supposed to approach the law. That obviously is not true for many people on the left side of the bench. Scott Jennings over on CNN, who does a great job. He actually quoted Elena Kagan, who voted the other way on this particular case. from 2022 about nationwide injunctions in which he felt precisely the opposite when it was a non-left-wing court holding up an action of Joe Biden.

I was trying to sort out my feelings on this matter, and I came up with a quote from a very smart lawyer. And I just want to quote it because I think she was right when she said it. It just can't be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks. Justice Elena Kagan in 2022 said that, of course, when we had a Democratic president. Now, she voted against the decision on Friday. Just goes to show you that some of these folks really are hacks.

Okay, now, again, he is totally right about this. Members of the media, of course, went insane. They've been declaring that imperial presidency is the thing since Trump. Okay, here's the reality. The power of the executive has expanded continuously.

for an extraordinary period of time in this country. That's particularly true since the Obama era. Since the Obama era, when Barack Obama decided that he was going to use a pen and a phone, he said this, if I can't get things done through legislation, I will just use my pen and my phone to do things. Since that happened, executive power...

has increased tremendously. All the way up to and including, of course, Joe Biden, who tried to use OSHA. We had to sue him to stop this. OSHA to cram down a vax mandate on 80 million Americans. Okay, so don't lecture me now. about how now we have a king. All the same people who are complaining about Donald Trump now were very happy when Joe Biden was using executive authority to illegally alleviate student loans. Here's CNN's Gretchen Carlson, however, doing this routine.

The first thing that came to mind today to me was that we may now have a king. This is so different from how the separation of powers have worked in this nation for decades and decades. Look, big picture, yes, huge win for Trump. But something I want to bring up tonight is that I believe this will change the way that politicking works in America. Because this won't just be for President Trump.

And if a Democrat would become president in three and a half years, they would be given the same power. So this will change the way in which we politic in America, I believe, unless Congress steps in and supersedes this. So, I mean, again, that's an insane statement. We have a king now. This is literally always how policy has worked. If you think that there's any president in American history who would have sat by while a district court judge simply annulled.

presidential edicts across the entire land, you're out of your mind. That's not a real thing. Meanwhile, Jen Psaki says, well, you know, the only reason the courts are even issuing these injunctions is because Trump is dictatorial. Or maybe the reason they're issuing these injunctions is because many of these judges in district courts in left leaning areas are of the political left, maybe. So the only institutional bulwark against Trump's autocratic impulses.

has been the third branch of government, the courts. And as Trump has pushed the limits of his power, the courts have had to check him over and over and over again, largely the lower courts. issuing nationwide injunctions to halt his executive orders as they decide what authority he actually has under the Constitution. In fact, Trump's actions have been so extreme

The courts have had to use that power to stop them more than any other president in modern history. I'm sorry, just because the courts are doing it more to Trump does not mean that Trump is more dictatorial. It might mean that the courts are trying to seize more power. MSNBC's Ellie Mistel, who for some reason is the legal analyst over there. He and Ali Velshi decided to talk about what if Trump wanted to murder you? Would the court stop it?

Imagine Donald Trump wants to do something illegal to you, Ali Velshi. Imagine that he wants to murder you. Imagine that he and Stephen Miller release an entire policy explaining about how they can murder Canadian journalists. Journalists who are working in America because they're taking the jobs from real American journalists, right? So he's going to murder you. So you, Ali Velshi, you go to court.

You go to court in the Southern District of New York and you say, like, I don't think this murder thing is constitutional. It's clearly illegal. It's clearly constitutional. Donald Trump and Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller shouldn't be able to have a plan to murder me.

And the court says, you're right, Ali Velshi. There's no way Donald Trump is allowed to murder you. We're going to have an injunction. We're going to stay the executive order saying that he's going to murder Canadian journalists. And so you're like, great, awesome. And you go home. And then Pat Kiernan shows up, and he's like, what about me? I'm also a Canadian. Ashley Banfield shows up. I'm also a Canadian. What about me? And the court's like, I can't help you, because Ali Velshi is the one.

who sued. So, Pat Kiernan, if you don't want to be murdered, you have to launch your entire own lawsuit in the Southern District of New York again to make sure that Donald Trump doesn't murder you. Okay, so first of all... If President Trump were to create an executive order to murder actual journalists, the Supreme Court would immediately take that up immediately. There is an acceleratory process by which the Supreme Court can take up these cases very quickly.

He would be struck down by the Supreme Court. I love that they have to go to the worst that would happen here is, President Trump might want to murder everyone, and so everyone would have to bring an individual lawsuit, but the Supreme Court would never take it up. What ridiculous speculative nonsense. Because the actual reality is that the other way is that any district court anywhere in America can simply invalidate a presidential action for the entirety of America. Always.

That is the case that Ellie Mistel and the rest of these folks are making, and it failed at the Supreme Court level. Okay, so that was case number one. In a second, we'll get to the socialist takeover of New York and, you know, some bad history associated with this sort of thing first.

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All righty. Meanwhile, case number two, the Supreme Court ruled in a case called Mahmoud v. Taylor. That parents have the right under the First Amendment freedom of religion to opt their kids out from classes, particularly for youngsters, that involve indoctrination into LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign of propaganda. The opinion here written by justice.

Samuel Alito. Again, a 6-3 decision. And basically, what he finds here is that parents have shown they are entitled to a preliminary injunction. Again. There can be an injunction from the top level from the Supreme Court. A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses a very real threat of undermining the religious beliefs and practices the parents wish to instill.

And a government cannot condition the benefit of free public education on parents' acceptance of such instruction. So this particular case, Montgomery County, small children were being referred to particular books and classes.

on transgenderism and same-sex marriage that were designed to indoctrinate in a set of values. And the opinion quotes from these books. There's one called Prince and Night, which, quote, tells the story of a coming-of-age prince whose parents wished to match him with a kind and worthy bride.

After meeting with many ladies, the prince tells his parents he is looking for something different and a partner by his side. And later, the prince falls into the embrace of a knight after the two finish battling a fearsome dragon, and then the entire kingdom applauds on the two men's wedding day. And then there's another book called Love, Violet, which is about a young girl named Violet who has a crush on her female classmate, Mira.

And the girls end up together, of course. And then there's books on transgenderism and all the rest. And basically, the board contends that they must teach kids this stuff without telling parents and without giving parents an opt-out. That is the idea. The board provided teachers with a guidance document suggesting particular responses to inquiries by parents according to the opinion. For example,

If a parent were to ask whether the school was attempting to teach a child to reject the values taught at home, teachers were encouraged to respond that, quote, teaching about LGBTQ plus is not about making students think a certain way. It is to show that there is no one right or normal way to be.

But that, of course, is a form of indoctrination because, of course, the left believes that there is a right way to be, which is to be on the left wing. And religious parents believe there's a right way to be, and that is to be religious. You're going to have to pick a set of values. There is no apolitical when it comes to these sorts of questions. The board rescinded parental opt-outs. So more than a thousand parents signed a petition asking the board to restore those opt-out rights.

and the board was unmoved. Instead, they decided that they basically needed to indoctrinate the kids. And so the court found no, this is a violation, clearly, of parental rights. Parents are not forced to turn their kids over to the state.

so that those kids can be indoctrinated in left-wing social policies. At its heart, says Samuel Alito, the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment protects the ability of those who hold religious beliefs of all kinds to live out their faiths in daily life through the performance of religious acts. And for many people of faith across the country, there are few religious acts more important than the religious education of their children. Of course, of course.

In light of the record before us, says the court, we hold the board's introduction to the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign inclusive storybooks combined with its decision to withhold notice to parents and to forbid opt-outs substantially interferes with the religious development of their children.

That is, of course, exactly right. Naturally, Justice Sotomayor dissents, and she suggests that, well, this could mean that you can opt out your kid from teaching about evolution. Well, no, evolution... is a scientific theory. It is not laden with values. If you were to suggest that evolution means that human beings are purely animals with no moral obligations, that would be religious indoctrination. Teaching kids the theory of evolution is a different thing.

In the same way, if you were to teach public school kids that the law of the land is men can marry men and women can marry women, that would not actually be a violation of religious freedom. It would be a violation of religious freedom if you started talking about the morality of that particular type of relationship.

Again, this is something that the court makes absolutely clear. Justice Sotomayor, of course, relies on the evolution canard in order to suggest that if you oppose same-sex marriage, then you're basically a new earther. And that everything, that you're basically a religious fundamentalist, which of course is not remotely the case. You can be anti-same-sex marriage just based on natural law teaching. Essentially what the left opposes here in the end is...

parents having control of their own kids. As Matt Barnum writes over at the Wall Street Journal, the ruling says parents can generally opt out of instruction that contradicts a child's religious upbringing. It marks another step toward putting parents in charge of determining what their kids are exposed to in school. Eric Baxter, lawyer for the Beckett Fund, says public schools are not an instrument of the state to force children into conformity. They serve the needs of the parents. Naturally.

Left wingers say that this is weaponizing against teachers. Well, teachers are not supposed to be opposed to the agenda of parents. They're supposed to have the same agenda. The whole reason why this has become an issue is because teachers unions and teachers.

have decided in many cases that they are more important than parents and they get to treat the kids as their laboratory experiments in morality they wish to purvey. Okay, so that is case number two. Very good case. Case number three, another 6-3 decision.

This one holds in Free Speech Coalition versus Paxton that actually the state of Texas can put age restrictions, age verification restrictions on pornography websites. Now, again, it is kind of amazing that this ever had to go to the Supreme Court. Basically, a bunch of.

libertarians and porn companies said that it was a violation of free speech to suggest that there be a window saying that you have to pledge that you are 18 years old and we have to verify via ID that you're 18 years old before you can access pornography.

And Justice Thomas says, no, that's that's ridiculous. He says to determine whether a law that regulates speech violates the First Amendment, we must consider both the nature of the burden imposed by the law and the nature of the speech at issue. Our precedents distinguish between two types of restrictions on protected speech, content based laws and content neutral laws. Content neutral laws are subject to an intermediate level of scrutiny. Not all speech is protected.

including obscenity, defamation, fraud, incitement, and speech integral to criminal conduct. History, tradition, and precedent, says Justice Thomas, recognized states have two distinct powers to address obscenity. They may proscribe outright speech that is obscene to the public at large, and they may prevent children from accessing speech that is obscene to children. Now, again, the left-wing view of this is that it is a deep and abiding violation of free speech.

to say that you have to verify the age of people who are accessing pornography online. The importance of President Trump having won in 2016, astonishing. Because the court would be ruling the opposite way on all of these questions if Hillary Clinton had been president of the United States starting in January of 2017. Okay, meanwhile, the other big continuing story of politics in the United States, of course, is...

the impending election of Zoran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. So Zoran Mamdani, he continues to be as radical as it is possible to be. He is sympathetic to jihadism. He is effectively communistic in his approach to the markets. He is, in fact, racist against white people. And there's no other way to read the agenda that he has spelled out publicly. And of course.

He's doing all of this as a sort of revolution against Trump, of course. Here is Armandani over the weekend suggesting that he is Trump's worst nightmare. I am Donald Trump's worst nightmare as a progressive Muslim immigrant who actually fights for the things that I believe in. And the difference between myself and Andrew Cuomo is that my campaign is not funded by the very billionaires who put Donald Trump in DC. I don't have to pick up...

up the phone from Bill Ackman or Ken Langone. I have to pick up the phone for the more than 20,000 New Yorkers who contributed an average donation of about $80 to break fundraising records and put our campaign in second place. Okay, so that was, of course, from a little bit earlier in the campaign. Now he's a nominee for the Democratic Party. He was asked by CNN, what are your feelings about capitalism? His answer was, I don't like it. Do you like capitalism?

No, I have many critiques of capitalism. And I think ultimately the definition for me of why I call myself a democratic socialist... is the words of Dr. King decades ago. He said, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, there must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country. And that's what I'm focused on is dignity and taking on income inequality.

And for too long, politicians have pretended that we're spectators to that crisis of affordability. We're actually actors. And we have the choice to exacerbate it, like Mayor Adams has done, or to respond to it and resolve it, like I'm planning to do.

He does not like capitalism, you understand? He's in the greatest financial center in the history of the world in New York City, and he does not like capitalism. That would seem to be a bit of a warning flag, you might think, especially given the fact he's a career useless person. He's a 33 year old who's never held a solid job a day in his life until he's going to become mayor of the biggest city in the country and a financial center of the West. He grew up in the home of a radical.

anti-colonialist, in scare quotes, professor at Columbia University who's sympathetic to every form of radicalism, and an Indian-American mother who made radical left-wing films in Hollywood. That is his upbringing. Rich. privilege, as left-wing as possible, became a citizen rather late in life, and now is running for mayor of New York on the platform of I hate capitalism, and I hate Donald Trump, and also white people are bad, according to the New York Post. New York.

City mayoral candidate Zorn Mamdani wants to hike property taxes for, quote, richer and whiter neighborhoods. It says that in his campaign platform, quote, shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.

And now that's just plain racist and also a violation of the Civil Rights Act. We're not allowed to use the law to discriminate against people on the basis of their race, obviously. Pretty astonishing that he is saying that sort of stuff. out loud. But again, he can say all of this sort of stuff because being a radical with the college educated white liberal base is the feature, not the bug.

And there's so many people who are rational, who are hearing all this and like, wait a second, how's this guy going to win? And the answer is he's going to win because of this. Because the virtue signaling on the left is just that strong. It is that important to be radical. And the omni-cause must prevail.

They're going to elect a guy who literally said that violence is an artificial construction. Here he was, not all that long ago, talking about violence while he was promoting defunding of the police. Oftentimes we've even found as legislators, when we go into these courts, the term violent crime is even used when people are stealing packages. Violent crime is even used when people are accused of burglary and there happens to be a housing unit in that same dwelling.

violence is an artificial construction. We have to be very clear that what is happening here with these district attorneys, that is violence. That is violence of the highest degree. Violence is an artificial construction, you see. When somebody does something violent, or when they break in, or when they burglarize your home, that's non-violent. It's an artificial construction. Well, this is leading the cops to say, every cop in the city is going to leave, according to the New York Post.

A New York City-led by Zarin Mamdani will mean a two-pronged breakdown of public safety, crime spiraling out of control, and NYPD officers leaving en masse, according to experts in veteran cops.

They believe the U-turn during the final weeks of his primary campaign away from defunding the police was just a craven political move to score votes with undecided voters. Scott Monroe, president of the NYPD Detectives Endowment Association, said, quote, the city would be totally unsafe for people who live here.

I go to bed and worry about the phone ringing. I'm worried about my members getting killed. I don't want to plan any funerals, he added. If you put a guy like him in there, our people are going to get hurt. Nobody's going to want the job. It's going to put recruitment back five more steps.

NYPD brass are quietly bracing for a potential mass exodus. I've had guys call me and say, if he wins, I'm quitting. A police source said of Momdani, it's just weird that New York City would vote for him. I know he's not here for the police. Well, no, he's not. He's there for the radicalism. He's there for the radicalism. And that's demonstrated by how he was getting his support, which was partially out of the state of New York, largely.

from groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He's receiving support from, apparently, Linda Sarsour, terrorist supporter. According to justthenews.com, Jerry Dunleavy writing, Zoran Mamdani's relationship with Sarsour went largely unremarked during the primary race for City Hall, even though he campaigned alongside her and she called him her friend.

Apparently, he embraced a nearly decade-long association with Sarsour as he rose from activist to New York State Assemblyman, and now the Democrat Party's nominee to run America's largest city. Their views on the Jewish state law enforcement and far-left policies have been closely aligned.

Literally the day after October 7th, he tweeted, peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid and condemned Israel on October 8th. That is who he is. He is a radical and the radicalism is the thing that people like about him. in New York City. By October 13th, he was saying that Israel was, quote, on the brink of genocide and he was arrested while protesting Israel.

Not Hamas, of course. And now he's pledging that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to New York, he will try to arrest him. He co-founded the Bowdoin College chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. a group that instructed its chapters on October 8th to celebrate a historic win for the Palestinian resistance. He expressed his love for the Holy Land Five.

Those were the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation convicted in 2008 for fundraising for Hamas. Again, not a shock. His dad compares Israel to the Nazis. Both of his parents have sided with the Columbia protest encampment. Of course. And naturally, this means that Mamdani has earned at least a hat tip from the horseshoe theory right. They say they don't agree with his policies, but they do like that he hates Israel.

Is it because people are so like desperate for government run grocery stores or love socialism or love like foreign born midwits running their cities? Probably not. That guy was the only person in the New York City mayor's debate. to say he wanted to focus on New York City. All the candidates were asked, if you could visit a foreign country, what would it be? And they, of course, all had an answer. I think most said Israel. Great. And he said, I wouldn't go anywhere. I'd stay in New York.

And like if I want to meet Jewish constituents, I go to their synagogues, their homes or whatever. But I'd be here in New York because that's what I'm doing. I'm running New York. That's my job. Well, he gave the right answer. He gave the right answer. He gave the right answer at least. And he's talking. I totally oppose his program. Absolutely.

I don't think it works, but he's talking about economics. Yep. And everyone else is talking about foreign policy. Why is it hard to talk about economics, domestic economics? I don't know. Apparently they don't know how to fix it. Unbelievable.

Okay, again, saying that you oppose his agenda and then praising him for talking about economics as a communist is pretty incredible. But again, the horseshoe theory there is all about the fact that Mamdani hates Israel. And so, of course, do some of the people that you just saw on your screen. which is why they've been expressing so much support for all of the opponents of Israel that they can find on their shows. And that's kind of an amazing horseshoe theory thing happening.

right there, because that's not actually what Mamdani said. If you actually go back and watch the debate, he didn't say, I don't want to focus on the Middle East. I just want to focus on what's happening here. He literally said he believes in the disestablishment of Israel as a Jewish state. That's what he actually said during the debate.

So that's a complete mischaracterization in order to defend Mamdani, because Mamdani is, of course, a rabid Jew-hater, a full-scale anti-Semite who supports terrorism. And this does say something about the radical left. The anti-Americanism, the anti-capitalism, the anti-Israel, the anti-Jewish of it, they are all linked. They are all of a piece. It's all about destroying systems that are successful. It's all about that. It's, by the way, also linked to anti-Christianity.

All of these things are of a piece. The omni-cause exists because of its omni-opponent. And the omni-opponent is the system. Capitalism. Free markets. Private property. Free speech. strong foreign policy in the face of nefarious and evil enemies, traditional values like church or synagogue, right? Those are the things these people oppose. And you saw them in living color.

in Glastonbury over the weekend. So Glastonbury is apparently a giant music festival that happens in the UK broadcast on the BBC. And at this gigantic music festival. in Glastonbury, there was a person that I had never heard of, who you also probably have never heard of, calls himself Bob Villain, right? As opposed to Bob Dylan. And...

And this person got up in advance of a band called kneecap, which has, of course, gone out and campaigned against Israel and talked about how evil Israel is. And he decided that he was just going to call for the death of IDF soldiers. And also, he was going to shout about how the West should essentially fall.

Here's what he had to say, shouting at a gigantic crowd of people flying flags for Palestinians, terrorist groups, and all the rest. These are the people the West has imported and then trained their own children to follow. Good job, West. Excellent job. We've done it all, alright? From working in bars to working for Zionists. And if we can do this, I promise you Zlot, you can do absolutely anything that you put your mind to. I'm telling you this.

Free free free free Have you heard this one though death death to the IDF death death to the IDF? This was broadcast on the BBC Hell yeah, from the river to the sea, Palestine must be, will be, inshallah, it will be free. So I'm just going to point out Hamas is not going to attack that music festival.

not like the Nova Music Festival, because all of the Hamas stans are in the crowd at this one. Maybe Hamas is attending. They found some of their favorite bands. This was broadcast in Living Color on the BBC. By the way, it wasn't just that this... human piece of dreck suggested death to the IDF. He also ran around the stage shouting, quote, I heard you want your country back. Shut the up.

Okay, that's what he said on the stage there. So first of all, great ad for Nigel Farage's reform party, which says, get all of these people out of our country. Great ad for them. But this is indicative of a rise in not only... It's all the things. It is hatred for the West. It is hatred for the civilization that has granted them all of their power, all of their economic might, all of their privileges, all of their free speech. And that, of course, is combined.

With the reason why they hate Israel. They don't hate Israel just because it's filled with Jews. Of course, that's one reason. They also hate Israel because Israel, they believe, is an extension of the quote-unquote colonialist West. That is the real reason they hate Israel. So, again, disgusting. And vile, but indicative of a new left wing base that exists across the political boundaries that separate so many of our countries, but unites the left wing base. And so what does this say?

Well, it says that something ugly is coming. Something very ugly is coming. When you look at Zahra Mamdani, I was spending the weekend doing some reading, and one of the books that I've been reading, I usually read several books at a time, is a memoir, famous memoir, by a writer named Stefan Zweig.

who's the author of a wide variety of books, some of them made into movies. He wrote a book called The World of Yesterday, talking about growing up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and then living through two world wars and what it was like.

And he has a section that really struck me, thinking about New York City, thinking about London, the major cities of the West these days. It really struck me. He was talking about Carl Lugar. Now, for those who don't know their World War II history, Carl Lugar preexisted World War II by... 40 years, Karl Luger was elected mayor of Vienna on an openly anti-Semitic platform. And Stefan Zweig was a resident of Vienna at the time. And he talks about how Vienna was a cosmopolitan city where people...

from all walks of life would go, they would enjoy, everybody had equal rights, and it all existed under the stability of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. And then things started to fall apart. Karl Luger was elected in 1897.

to become mayor of Vienna on an openly anti-Semitic platform. The reason he's an important historic figure is not because he was mayor of Vienna. The reason he's an important figure is because there was a young person living in Vienna at the time. His name was enough Hitler, and Hitler was a big admirer.

of Karl Luger. He saw his success and he decided he was going to emulate that success. And so Stefan Zweig talks about this, now writing retrospectively in 1942. He writes this, quote, were the ruin of the bourgeois and the small employers and manufacturers by hand.

An able and popular leader was Dr. Karl Luger, who mastered this unrest and worry and, with the slogan, the little man must be helped, carried with him the entire small bourgeois and the disgruntled middle class, whose envy of the wealthy was markedly less than the fear of sinking from its bourgeois status into the proletariat.

It was exactly the same worried group which Adolf Hitler later collected around him as his first substantial following. Karl Luger was also his prototype in another sense, in that he taught him the usefulness of the anti-Semitic catchword. which put an opponent before the eyes of the broad classes of the bourgeois, and at the same time, imperceptibly diverted their hatred from the great landed gentry and the feudal wealthy class. ... ... ... ... ... ...

Der Schoen Karl, the Viennese called him, the handsome Karl. He had been academically educated in an age that placed intellectual culture over all else. He had not gone to school in vain. He could speak in a way that appealed to the people. He was vehement and witty, but even in the most heated speeches, or at least those that were thought to be heated at that time, he never overstepped the bounds of decency. His Streicher, Julius Streicher, was the publicist for Hitler.

A certain mechanic named Schneider, who operated with legends of ritual murder and similar vulgarities, was carefully held in check. Luger was modest and above reproach in his private life. He always maintained a certain chivalry toward his opponents.

When his movement had finally captured the Viennese Town Council and he, after Emperor Francis Joseph, who detested the anti-Semitic tenancy, had twice refused to sanction it, was appointed burgomaster, his city administration remained perfectly just and even typically democratic.

OK, he was accompanied at the time by the rise of another party called the Christian Social Party in Vienna, which was anchored in the industrial centers. And it made up for its unimportance by wild aggression and bridal brutality. They dominated the university hall.

They engaged in actual violent attacks. The police, who because of the ancient privilege accorded to the university were not allowed to enter the hall, had to look on inactively from without and see how these cowardly ruffians worked havoc. and could do no more than carry off the wounded who were thrown bleeding down the steps into the street by these nationalist rowdies. So great was the abhorrence of the tragically weak and touchingly humane era.

For any violent tumult or the shedding of blood, the government retired in the face of the German national terror. So these two forces is what Stefan Zweig is talking about in his memoirs. The force of Karl Lugar, Gentile, anti-Semitic. playing on a feeling of the quote-unquote economically dispossessed who aren't quite poor. So lower middle class people, highly educated, who are seeking someone to blame. And so the anti-Semitism was a feature, not a bug.

And the German National Party, which invaded the universities and did violence. Does this sound familiar at all? And a state that was unwilling to do anything about it, that sat aside in the name of gentility and civility. Does that sound like anything? Again. That doesn't mean that we're existing in 1897 Vienna. What it does mean is that when you look at what happened in Glastonbury, again, in the UK, which is a country that prosecutes people for tweets that they find inappropriate.

And yet they have thousands of people chanting in unison, you want your country back, shut the F up. And also death, death to the IDF, a call for murder of Israeli soldiers in solidarity with actual terrorists. If that is the future of the West, then the West is scrued in a massive, massive way. Now, again, what's amazing about all of this is that we are now living in an era.

where the West should be in its ascendancy if it did not have to deal with this fifth column of people who hate their civilization, the scavengers, as I've called them, this coalition of scavengers. Right now, the West is in its ascendancy, not in its decline. Over the weekend, President Trump championed a peace deal that he has now cut between Congo and Rwanda. Apparently, a peace agreement brokered by the White House to stem the bloodshed.

In Congo, where a militia allegedly backed by Rwanda occupies vast swaths of land, was signed in Washington, D.C. on Friday by officials of those two African nations. Here is President Trump explaining that he is brokering peace throughout the world. This is a tremendous breakthrough. In a few short months, we've now achieved peace between India and Pakistan, Israel and Iran, and the DRC in Rwanda.

A couple of others also, Serbia, you know, they were getting ready to go to war with a group I won't even mention because it didn't happen. We were able to stop it. So, again, he's right about that. He also continues to maintain his strength in the face of an Iran that pledges nuclear development. He says to Ayatollah Khamenei, listen, you keep lying and saying that you won. You didn't. You got your ass kicked.

I'm putting out a little statement. I'm going to respond to the Ayatollah's statement yesterday that we won the war. We won the war. And I said, look, you're a man of great faith. A man who's highly respected in this country. You have to tell the truth. He got beat to hell. And Israel was beat up, too. They were both beat up. And it was a great time to end it. It was quick.

They got the hate out a lot of hate a lot of hate would be great if they didn't have that hate but the last thing they're thinking about is nuclear weapons right now He is right about that. And then he adds, listen, if they start developing nuclear weapons, we'll bomb them again if we have to. Would you consider bombing the country again? Without question. Absolutely. Turned out to be unbelievable. But, you know, our incredible flyers and our...

I call them the shots. These guys are unbelievable. From 52,000 feet, they hit the equivalent of a refrigerator door. They actually hit it right in the center, so it's much smaller than that. So, again, he's right about all of this. At a time when the West should be resurgent and on the upswing. Instead, you do have America's major cities, New York City, L.A., Chicago being run by full-scale left-wing nutcases.

who are deeply ensconced with hatred for their own civilization. Same thing has happened in London. Same thing is happening in the UK. It's been happening in France as well. It's a serious threat to the West. The biggest threat to the West is not external at this point. The biggest threat to the West is internal.

The red-green alliance, the communist socialists and the Hamasniks coming together in hatred of their own civilization, which ties into July 4th. July 4th is coming up. It's going to be great. I hope you're going to have a wonderful Independence Day celebrating the foundation of the greatest country in the history of the world. And we should talk about...

a myth that has been purveyed about July 4th and about the United States in general. This, of course, is the 1619 myth that America was founded on slavery and that the Revolutionary War was fought for the preservation of slavery. There are so many lies that are told about our civilization. particularly about the foundation of our civilization, in order to somehow claim that our civilization should therefore be torn down. If you were to pull the morons at Glastonbury.

or the Democratic primary voters for Zorn Mamdani about what they think of the United States, they would surely agree with the myth that America was founded on slavery. And it's not true. So first of all, let's take a moment to debunk this myth. A huge number of the founders overtly opposed slavery in principle, even those who were hypocrites and held slaves themselves.

did not provide significant defenses of slavery. That included George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Washington said, quote, there's not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for its abolition. Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence called the slave trade an extra. Of course, Benjamin Franklin.

James Madison, John Adams, very passionately, Alexander Hamilton spoke against slavery as well. Now, why was slavery included in the Constitution of the United States originally? The answer was because there were still slave holding states in the United States. Many of the northern states were not slave holding states, but the southern states were. And the question was, could you get together a coalition to defeat the British or could you not? And this was not a fight.

on behalf of promoting slavery. Slavery remained legal in the British Empire until 1833. So this was not a fight in which one side was pro-slavery and one side was anti-slavery. Far from it. The leaders in America ideologically were not in favor of slavery. There was a practical on the ground consideration, which was that many of the southern states were reliant on slave labor. Again, that's an evil not to be excused, but to claim that the Revolutionary War was about slavery.

is to be ignorant of history. And in fact, as soon as the revolution began, there were eight states that immediately came out and started Abolishing slavery, Vermont, 1777, Pennsylvania, 1780, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 1783, Rhode Island and Connecticut, 1784, New York, 1799, New Jersey, 1804. As Arthur Millick of the Heritage Foundation points out,

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 of the Constitution says that Congress could prohibit the importation of slaves starting in 1808. The goal was to phase slavery out on the continent. On the first day that clause was operative, Congress passed, and President Thomas Jefferson, famous slaveholder, signed that prohibition into law. In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance was passed, which outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territories. Seven years later...

Congress made it illegal to build ships for the purpose of the slave trade. It's important to debunk some of these myths because those myths are then the basis for claiming that the West is uniquely evil. Slavery is a virtually universal human institution that is, in fact, evil.

but was also universal. The question isn't whether the founding fathers were hypocrites about slavery. Some were, some weren't. The question is, why did it take the West to end slavery? In fact, slavery is still practiced in many of the areas that are favorites of the Glastonbury crowd.

Many of the places that they are claiming are havens of freedom that require less of a heavy Western hand are places that are still running slavery. A huge amount of the Middle East still engages in slavery, not Israel. By many of its opponents. This is the point here. July 4th spells a clarion call for human freedom. And it has been seen that way by right-minded people ever since.

This is why the very famous Frederick Douglass speech about what is 4th of July to the slave, it doesn't say that the 4th of July is bad. It says that the problem with the 4th of July is that the principles that the founding fathers sought to instill had not yet been realized. That is the right approach.

A historically accurate and mature approach, as opposed to this leftist scumbag wing that simply suggests the West is uniquely evil, when in reality, the West is uniquely good. Alrighty, coming up, we'll get to...

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