Welcome. It is Verdict with Center. Ted Kruz.
Nice to have you with us on this Wednesday morning, and we get to start with good news center, and that is there are three different rulings that have come down from the Supreme Court, all in favor of the Trump administration.
Well, that's right, and it's very encouraging. You know, we've talked about at length on this podcast how the law fair that is unfolding against the Trump administration. The pattern of nationwide injunctions has in the last three months exceeded what has happened in the last twenty years. It's exceeded what happened in the entire twentieth century in terms of
the number of nationwide injunctions issued against the Trump administration. Well, the good news is, in the last couple of days, we've had not one, not two, but three Supreme Court victories for the Trump Department of Justice against these nationwide injunctions. We're going to break down all three of them, and layout we've talked about on this podcast, how the principal check on this abuse of power that's going to be effective is the appellate process and the Supreme Court. It's encouraging.
Now we have three victories. We're also going to talk about a new report from DOGE that over four million social Security numbers were given to illegal aliens, people who are not US citizens. And finally, we've seen the growing pattern of men competing in women's sports. This past week, it went viral a woman competing and fencing faced a man, a man identifying as a woman, and she declined to compete. The woman took a knee and ended up being disqualified.
Disqualified because she declined to compete against a biological man.
That was wrong.
That was an abuse of power. And as the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, I am holding USA fencing to account. We're going to explain all of that and what the consequences are.
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No, that's exactly right.
And let's start with the most prominent one, which is the Supreme Court on Monday lifted a judge's order that had blocked the deportation of suspected Venezuela and gang members to a to a prison in l Salvador. And it was the true Trump administration was removing these gang members under an eighteenth century law known as the Alien Enemies Act.
And you'll recall a district judge, James Boseberg, had ordered the halt of the removals under the Act, and in fact, President Trump had called for Judge Boseberg's impeachment as a result of that. Well, the Court issued a five to four decision that blocked the judge's order stopping the deportation. The vote was five to four, so it was close,
five to four. It was a procureum decision. In the majority were the Chief Justice Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, and a whole lot of attention has been focused on the fact that amy Cony Barrett voted with the liberals on this, and so it was a five to Ford decision. Nonetheless, it's a victory in that what the court concluded was that if you wanted to challenge the deportation, that you could not do so in
d C, which is where they filed the case. Instead, you had to file it as a habeas corpus petition. What is a habeas corpus petition? It Habeas corpus is a Latin term. It means produced the body, and habeas corpus is a civil avenue to justify someone's unlawful detention. But the court said, look, these individuals, these gang members were detained at the time the case was filed in
South Texas. They said, the right place to file the case is in South Texas, not d C. They weren't being held in DC, they were being held.
In South Texas.
So the right avenue to challenge this was to file a habeas corpus petition in South Texas. And they said you shouldn't do so as a class action on behalf of everyone, which is what had been done here. Rather each individual defendant if you have a claim. So look, if you've been detained, if you're getting ready to be deported, and they say you're a Venezuelan gang member, if you have a claim that I'm not a Venezuelan gang member,
the facts are wrong. They said, the avenue to do that is go and file a hevieas corpus petition in the location where you're being detained. That was five to four. I wish it had been nine to zero. That was clearly right now. The court did say that anyone who is being detained and being deported, they should have reasonable notice under due process to have the challenge to the
opportunity to challenge their detention and deportation. But this victory is a big, big victory in what had been I think in egregious order from the district court trying to stop the deportation of really, really dangerous criminals.
Well, let me ask you a question because you mentioned it there, and I think it'd be crazy if I didn't ask it, because there's some of you asking why was there a what many would consider a conservative justice go with the Democrats in this decision. As an aside here that was obviously part of the headline that we saw on social media.
Yeah, look, I don't have a good answer. I think it is unfortunate. I disagree with her decision on that. In this case, look the left, but both the Democrats and activist judges and left wing radical legal groups are challenging any deportation. The Trump administration relied on a law called the Alien Enemies Act, which is a law that was signed into law by in seventeen ninety eight by
President John Adams. And what the Trump administration did is it classified a transnational criminal gang trender Aragua as an arm of a hostile government Venezuela. And based on that law, there are very broad legal authorities to deport those who are part of a hostile government waging war on the
United States. That was the basis of the deportations. The district judge, Judge Boseburg, had tried to shut down all these deportations, and thankfully the Supreme Court, by a votified to four ended that and said, if you got an issue with a particular deportation, bring a case, but bring it in the location where the individual is detained. And they did say you got to give them a reasonable
time to challenge it. And so that that presumably will slow down the deportation slightly, but I don't expect it will slow it down much. It may slow it down a matter of days rather than months.
And to be clear, this is a victory because it allows the President to continue doing what he wanted to do when it comes to deportations. If this would have gone the other way, this could have been catastrophic.
No, that's exactly right. Look, the election in November was a clear mandate to secure the border and to end the invasion at our southern border, and the Trump administration has been following through on that mandate and has been deporting vast numbers of criminal illealiens. The left is losing their mind, and that that is was the basis of
this injunction. Thankfully the Supreme Court reversed that. Now there's another victory that occurred, which is another five to four decision where the Supreme Court concluded that it was okay to cancel six hundred million dollars in teacher training grants, sixty five million of that had yet to be distributed. And there you had a different majority. You had Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsich, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Cony Barrett. So she was in the five to four. The Chief
Justice joined the liberals. So in the Venezuelan case, Amy Cony Barrett joined the liberals. In the case about canceling the teacher training grants, it was the Chief Justice who joined the liberals. And what the court concluded in this other case is that that should have been brought in the Court of Federal Claims. That if you have a claim against money being given from the federal government, that the proper venue for challenging that is the Court of
Federal Claims. Now, look, some might say, God, these decisions are narrow and technical, and they are. But that being said, they're nonetheless victories against district judges that are engaged in law fair that are trying to shut down the Trump administration's agenda and the agenda they were elected to implement by the American people.
So when you look at this, these really these three big decisions, does this also empower the Trump team and administration to do their job now saying hey, we now know that when we go to court, we're going to be our site is going to be at least listened to, and it's not stacked against us, and we're doing the right thing within the law.
So yes and no. No, we've only talked about two of the cases. Let me talk about the third one. The third one was there was an order from a district judge that was ordering the Trump administration to reinstate sixteen thousand federal employees that it had fired. Yeah, and that went to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court actually by a voter seven to two, reversed it. And and and and they said, uh, that that the these
federal employees did not have to be reinstated. The two liberal justices that dissented were Sonya Sotomayor and Katanji Brown Jackson. But the full court what happened in that case, It was an injunction that was issued by Judge William Alsop who was who's a district judge in San Francisco, and he required the reinstatement of probationary employments at multiple agencies
that the Trump administration had sought to dismiss. Uh. The judge was appointed by Bill Clinton, and the judge concluded that the administration hadn't followed the proper procedures for the for the firing. Well the Supreme Court disagreed, and seven to they reversed that, which is yet another victory. So if you look at the combination of these, you have a victory for deporting violent criminal gang member illegal aliens.
You have a victory for canceling grants that were given and grants that were given, in the Trump Administration's view, inappropriately. And you have a victory for dismissing sixteen thousand, primarily probationary employees from federal agencies. In all three of them, you had federal district judges that had stepped in and said, no, we're going to stop you from carrying out this agenda.
And in all three of them, the Supreme Court, albeit on technical grounds, reversed or vacated the district court's orders. This is a very, very good development because it's exactly what we talked about the remedy for lawless decisions by district courts. The best remedy is the appellate process and the US Supreme Court. Now we've talked about on this podcast, how there are other remedies, how Congress could pass legislation
limiting nationwide injunctions support that. In fact, i'm the co sponsor of legislation to do that, but the problem is the Democrats will filibuster that. It will never get sixty votes. Another possible remedies impeachment. It is possible the House of Representatives could impeach a district judge who had egregiously abused his power. That takes simply a majority vote in the House of Representatives two utter and eighteen. The Republicans could
vote to do that. However, to convict a judge under the constitution takes two thirds of the Senate, which means we would need a lot of Democrats. We would get zero, So impeachment will not be an effective remedy either. That means we really are dependent on the pellet process of the Supreme Court. And I'm very encouraged to have three victories within just a couple of days.
Yeah, these are big victories.
And this is also, like you said, gonna encourage I think the Trump administration to continue to make bold moves and say, hey, you guys want to sue, go ahead, We'll see you in court and we'll see what happens there.
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taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. And this was all done on purpose by the prior administration.
Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, there's a great story about this in the Daily Wire. It begins with quote, according to the latest numbers reported by the Department of Government, efficiency.
Doge.
Nearly four million non citizens were issued social Security numbers in the United States during former President Joe Biden's time in the White House. Stuart Varney broke down some of the details during Tuesday Mornings broadcast of his Fox Business show, showing how the numbers exploded from two hundred and seventy thousand, four hundred and twenty five in Biden's first year in office up to two million, ninety five thousand, two hundred and forty seven in his last year as president.
And in fact, we've got that audio Stewart, I want to play it for everybody.
Take a listen.
Doze exposed our immigration asylum disaster. That was the tip of the iceberg.
Now here's the story.
Doze has found that Immigration gave a work authorization document to illegals just five months after they filed for asylum. That document allowed them to work while they waited to hear whether their asylum request of being accepted or denied. So they could work as an illegal. Knowing it would take years before their case was heard, the Immigration Department mailed them a social Security number, no interview, no proof of identity to put it in the mail. Here's your
number in twenty twenty one. Does says two hundred and seventy thousand new aliens were issued social Security numbers five hundred and ninety twenty twenty two, nine hundred and sixty four thousand twenty twenty three, and two point one million in twenty four right before Biden left office. Dose also discovered that one point three million aliens are now receiving medicaid. Millions received driver's licenses, Some registered to vote, and Doe
says some actually did vote. Try and square that against Democrat claims that Musk is destroying social security and cutting Medicaid is not destroying. He's weeding out people. Don't qualify who is really guilty of misinformation in this case, it is not Elon Musk.
By the way, One of the things that he said there was we were mailing out these Social Security cards to people that had had no proof of who they were, no proof of identity. Just here you go, sign up and bam, will give you a bunch of govermin aide, including as he mentioned, their medicaid.
Yeah.
No, it's an amazing quote. No interview, no proof of identity, just put it the mail. And the important thing to understand, this was not by accident. This is not because the Biden administration was incompetent. It's not because they're lazy. This was their intention. You don't go from two hundred thousand to two million in four years by accident. They made a conscious decision. Number one, the twelve million illegal immigrants that invaded this country under Joe Biden, they made a
conscious decision, let's open up our borders. We want this to happen. Number two, the four million non citizens who got Social Security numbers. They made a conscious decision. We want every one of them. Look the reason why I've had people ask me why would the Democrats allow this horrific invasion. It hurt them politically, It hurt them badly. Don't any of them say, gosh, this is egregious and
it's a simple political calculus. I believe the Democrats decided every illegal immigrant in America is a future Democrat voter, and so we'll take twelve million, even if it includes murderers and rapists and child molesters and gang members, because we want power, and so hand in hand with that is giving them so Security numbers. Even if it's fraudulent.
They don't care and and this is yet another example of the abusive power we've seen over the last four years, in particular that is being exposed by Elon musk Andy by President Trump.
So how do we turn this off? I mean, there's this many that are out there. And if you go back over the numbers that you that you mentioned and that Stuart mentioned there that the number of people that are that got these Social Security cards just in the fiscal year twenty twenty four over two million, about a million and twenty three five hundred or ninety thousand, almost six hundred thy twenty two and two hundred and twenty twenty twenty one.
How do we turn those off?
How do we say, no, you don't need this and you were given this was abusive power. No, we're not going to have you getting all this free garment. Aide is that where Congress has to step in and say, hey, we got to go back through all the son says and so security numbers that have been issued and connect the dots of those that were issued.
Are you getting government aid?
Yes, Congress should act, But at the same time, I think the Trump administration has ample authority to act, and I think Elon musk views that really is a very significant part of his mandate.
You know.
One of the things Stuart Varney reported on he said, quote Doge also discovered that one point three million Aliens are now receiving medicaid. Millions received driver's licenses, some registered to vote, and Doge said some actually did vote. Try and square that against Democrat claims that Musk is destroying so security and cutting Medicaid. He's not destroying He's weeding out people who don't qualify. Who's really guilty of misinformation in this case, it's not Elon Musk. And that point
I think is exactly right. That I think the Trump Adventists Station has a real mandate to go find waste fraud, abuse, and go find illegal immigrants that are wrongly receiving government benefits and cut them off. And I think Congress should back them up. But I also think the Trump administration is going to do so on its own, and I think that's fantastic.
Senator.
There's also another important story that is one that is I think exciting for transparency but also frustrating at the same time. You have opened an investigation into US Fencing over their transathlete policy. Give us the backstory on this and why you're so involved.
So USA Fencing has received widespread criticism for something that happened last week. Stephanie Turner, who's a female fencer. She refused to compete against a transgender opponent, a biological male who decided that he was a she. And what happened and is Stephanie Turner. Rather than compete against this biological mail, Stephanie Turner took a knee and as a result, she was disqualified from the tournament. She was given a black
card and disqualified from the tournament. It was treated as forfeiting. And I saw this frankly. I saw this on X I saw this on Twitter, and I thought this was outrageous because women should not be forced to compete against men in sports. That's not right now. As you know, I am the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The Commerce Committee has massive jurisdiction, as jurisdiction over roughly forty percent of the US economy. One of
the things we have jurisdiction over is sports. We have jurisdiction over collegiate sports, Olympic sports, and any kind of sports competition, and fencing is explicitly it is the vehicle through which the American fencing team in the Olympics has chosen. And so last week I launched an investigation and I sent an oversight letter to USA Fencing asking for the documents on what their policy is, how many transgender athletes have attempted to compete, how many women they have disqualified
for decline and compete, how many injuries have occurred. Look, there are biological differences. Men are made differently than women, and we've seen in many other sports significant injuries from women being forced to compete against biological men. And at the end of the day, the Congress has a very direct remedy, which is we have the ability to cease the designation and of USA Fencing as the organization that chooses US Olympic athletes. And so this oversight is an effort.
I want to get them to change their policy. I want to get them to protect women. I think women's sports matters, girls sports matters, and I don't think any women should be forced to compete against a man in sports. I don't think any girl should be forced to compete against a boy in sports.
What does it look like if they're actually held accountable for this.
What it looks like is they change their policies that that is my objective here, is to change the policy so that you don't end up having having women discriminated against and put in a position where they're competing unfairly, where they're put in a position where they're risking real, real injuries.
It'll be very interesting to see what that injury report looks like. Is there a timeline for them getting back to you with this request?
Sure?
So here's what I said my letter. I wrote it to the chief executive officer of USA Fencing, and I said, dear mister Andrews, it has come to my attention that USA Fencing is still permitting men to compete in women's
fencing in violation of federal law. I'm writing to ask why your organization is the recognized national governing body for fencing in the United States, but to remain so, it must comply with the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee rules and procedures, its statutory obligations to protect women, and President Trump's recent executive order on keeping men out of women's sports. If it does not and instead continues to put women at risk, Congress may be forced to terminate
USA Fencing's NGB certification. Last week, Stephanie Turner, from the Fencing Academy of Philadelphia competed at the USA Fencing sanctioned Cherry Blossom Open Circuit at the University of Maryland. The young woman was set to face a man who now claims to be a transgender woman and a fencing bans However, at the start of the match, Miss Turner bravely took a knee and refused to compete against her male opponent.
In response to this young woman's courage, tournament officials presented her with a black card and disqualified her from the entire tournament. USA's Fencing's Director of Communications, Brian Wendell, said the young woman's disqualification was quote the direct result of her decision to decline defense an eligible opponent, a supposed violation of the International Fencing Federation rules. He reiterated the
USA Fencing's remains committed to inclusivity. USA Fencing's commitment to inclusivity is nothing less than a full throat of support for males competing in women's sports in violation of federal law. As the recognized MGB for Fencing. USA Fencing is required to provide quote support and encouragement for participation by women were separate programs for male and female end athletes are conducted on a national basis, as well as quote safe
environments and sports. Failure to do so is grounds for the United States Congress to terminate USA Fencing certification as an MGB. And I go on to say that they have to comply with President Trump's executive order. And I point out that male fencers naturally possess inherent advantages over potential female competitors. Men tend to be taller, have greater muscle mass, and more testosterone, all advantages for fencing movements
like lunges, jumping, or leg power measures. And I point out that under the rules of the Senate, the Commerce Committee has a duty and an authority to review and study on a continuing basis both sports and sports agencies such as USA Fencing, and so I ask, I ask a whole series of questions, and I want documents and answers by April twenty first, twenty twenty five, and it's
documents about their transgender policy. How many men or transgender women currently compete in the women's division, in the last four years. How many bouts have occurred between transgender women and women? How many times did the female athlete prevail? How many times did the female athletes suffer an injury? Does USA Fencing comply with the President's executive order? And I have a whole series of additional questions, But this
is an example of holding to account. And you've got throughout sports these radical associations, organizations that have embrace the woke ideology. There's no difference between men and women, and that is profoundly unfair to women and girls competing in sports. And I'm going to do everything I can to stop it.
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