WEBVTT - Hour 1: The Ticking of Time 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.800 Hi friend, thank you so much for downloading this podcast 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:06.920 and I truly hope you hear something that edifies encourage, equips, enlightens, 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.520 and then gets you out there in the marketplace of ideas. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.440 But before you go, I want to tell you about 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.680 this month's truth tool. It's called Have You Ever Wondered? 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.720 And I absolutely love this topic because if you're like me, 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:19.600 going out into the night sky and looking up and 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.439 seeing a million stars, don't you just stop and think 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.560 about God? And are you not in a moment of 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.960 awe and wonder or looking out over the vast expanse 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.600 of an ocean and you start thinking, what is man, 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.800 that thou art mindful of him? And it makes you 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.240 wonder about the magnificence of God? I think that sense 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.480 of wonder was put there on purpose, and this wonderful 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.720 book includes a composite of multiple authors who have written 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.879 from their perspective as a scientist, or a historian, or 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.160 a mathematician or an artist, on why they all have 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.599 this sense of awe through the work that they do. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.120 In other words, the heavens declare the glory. And as 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.440 it tells us in Romans, we are really without excuse 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:00.150 because his handiwork is everywhere. And this book invites you 0:01:00.150 --> 0:01:03.510 to walk through the chapters written by people who all 0:01:03.510 --> 0:01:06.310 have a sense of awe and wonder when it comes 0:01:06.310 --> 0:01:09.110 to God through their various disciplines in life. It's an 0:01:09.110 --> 0:01:11.430 amazing book and it's yours. For a gift of any amount, 0:01:11.430 --> 0:01:16.270 just call 877 Janet 58. That's 877 Janet 58. Ask 0:01:16.270 --> 0:01:19.150 for a copy of Have You Ever Wondered? And we'll 0:01:19.150 --> 0:01:20.390 send it right off to you as my way of 0:01:20.390 --> 0:01:22.950 saying thank you, because we are listener supported radio. Or 0:01:22.950 --> 0:01:25.350 you can go online to in the market with Janet Parshall. 0:01:26.550 --> 0:01:29.389 When you're also on the website, consider becoming a partial partner. 0:01:29.390 --> 0:01:31.630 Those are people who give every single month at a 0:01:31.630 --> 0:01:34.110 level of their own choosing. 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Before they get started, let's take a quick 0:02:09.650 --> 0:02:11.810 look back at some of the highlights from the week. 0:02:17.450 --> 0:02:20.169 One of the things that we noted was that this 0:02:20.169 --> 0:02:24.970 all girls school, this all female institution of higher education, 0:02:25.250 --> 0:02:30.090 not only admits biological men who identify as women, but 0:02:30.090 --> 0:02:33.489 it also opens all of the bathrooms, locker rooms and 0:02:33.490 --> 0:02:38.410 housing accommodations to biological men as well. Which really brings 0:02:38.410 --> 0:02:41.489 us back to square one. If title nine was designed 0:02:41.490 --> 0:02:46.850 to protect biological girls and give them equal educational opportunity, 0:02:47.130 --> 0:02:51.329 what is a women's college doing admitting biological men? 0:02:51.730 --> 0:02:56.919 My whole nuclear family, praise the Lord came to Christ And, uh, 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.400 and we had an made if you ever saw the 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.399 movie The Help you. That's how it was with my 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.160 family and so many Jewish families in Portsmouth that we knew. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.600 And her name was Callie Goodman, and she prayed for 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.280 me for 22 years. I found this out after I 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:15.639 came to Christ, I didn't know. 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:16.280 Oh, wow. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:20.280 And she prayed for my whole nuclear family, uh, and 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.680 prayed my whole nuclear family into the kingdom of God. 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.560 Humans are part of this giant ecosystem that God's created 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.000 because of all those things. I have an even, I believe, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.400 deeper appreciation for the ways God's character is displayed through 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.040 everything that he's made. So I don't just see God's 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:44.040 beauty and glory, but I see all different kinds of attributes, 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:49.200 even through the lowliest little fish up to the biggest whale. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.560 There's so much to be learned about God's character from 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.340 his creation, and I'm really blessed to have a front 0:03:55.340 --> 0:03:56.340 row seat to that. 0:03:56.660 --> 0:03:58.660 We can listen to the voice of the one who 0:03:58.660 --> 0:04:01.820 gave us eternal life through His Son, Jesus. And when 0:04:01.820 --> 0:04:04.460 we give heed to that voice, and we surrender our 0:04:04.460 --> 0:04:07.460 thoughts and our minds and our bodies and our ways 0:04:07.460 --> 0:04:10.340 and desires and everything to him, it changes everything. It 0:04:10.340 --> 0:04:13.180 changes everything. It can change the entire course of your 0:04:13.180 --> 0:04:18.140 life because it affects everything around you, your relationships, your 0:04:18.180 --> 0:04:22.580 I mean, it affects everything. So I'm so grateful for Jesus. 0:04:22.620 --> 0:04:25.420 And I know that's an understatement and it's just a given. 0:04:25.620 --> 0:04:27.260 But if it wasn't for him, I would not be 0:04:27.260 --> 0:04:29.180 here today. I'm telling you, I would not be here 0:04:29.180 --> 0:04:29.940 without him. 0:04:31.740 --> 0:04:34.180 To hear the full interviews from any of those guests, 0:04:34.220 --> 0:04:37.419 go to In the Market with Janet Parshall and click 0:04:37.420 --> 0:04:40.419 on Past programs. Here are some other stories making headlines 0:04:40.420 --> 0:04:41.060 this week. 0:04:41.700 --> 0:04:43.700 As a cease fire sets in following more than a 0:04:43.700 --> 0:04:47.580 week of devastating airstrikes and rocket fire, Iran is cleaning 0:04:47.580 --> 0:04:51.900 up and cracking down. Officials and activists said Tehran has 0:04:51.900 --> 0:04:56.010 intensified mass arrests, executions and military deployments. 0:04:56.010 --> 0:04:59.290 In France, smoking will be banned on beaches, in parks, 0:04:59.290 --> 0:05:03.090 outside schools and in other public locations starting July. The 0:05:03.089 --> 0:05:03.890 government said. 0:05:03.930 --> 0:05:08.690 Chinese automakers have pushed to unlock Africa's underdeveloped potential with 0:05:08.690 --> 0:05:11.089 a focus on electric and hybrid vehicles. 0:05:11.089 --> 0:05:14.450 The custodians of trillions of dollars of global central bank 0:05:14.450 --> 0:05:18.330 reserves are eyeing a move away from the greenback, with gold, 0:05:18.330 --> 0:05:21.210 the euro and China's yuan all in favor. 0:05:22.570 --> 0:05:24.690 Janet and Craig have lots to share, and they'll put 0:05:24.690 --> 0:05:27.210 the first story on the table when we return. To 0:05:27.210 --> 0:05:29.849 get more information or to download the podcast of any 0:05:29.850 --> 0:05:32.810 of the interviews, go to In the Market with Janet Parshall. 0:05:45.770 --> 0:05:48.130 Have you ever wondered why music moves us so deeply, 0:05:48.130 --> 0:05:50.730 or why beauty takes our breath away? My Truth Tool 0:05:50.730 --> 0:05:53.160 this month is a thought provoking book that explores those 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.440 moments of wonder we all encounter. It's called Have You 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.760 ever Wondered? Consider how ordinary aspects of life point to 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.039 the extraordinary biblical truths. Ask for your copy of. Have 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:03.680 you ever wondered when you give a gift of any 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.400 amount to in the market, call eight 7758. That's eight 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.200 7758 or go to in the market with Janet Parshall. 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.839 Happy Friday to you friends. So glad we're going to 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.120 spend the hour together. Of course, Mr. Parshall is with 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.880 me because he does that on Fridays. We put on 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.080 our glasses the lens of Scripture. We take a look 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.520 at the stories being talked about in the marketplace of ideas, 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.440 and then we do some insight and analysis. It's never 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.640 boring because there's no shortage of things to talk about. 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.200 And I'm so glad that you and I are going 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.520 to learn how to be good Bereans, test all things, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.880 learn to think critically and biblically. Note to file. Not 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.000 a multiple choice test. It is a both and and 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.279 implying what the word has to say to the world 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.680 around us. It helps us grow up, right? Isn't that 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.880 what the directive is in Scripture? Get off that diet 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.620 of milk, Paul tells us. And get to a diet 0:06:51.660 --> 0:06:53.500 of meat, the meat of the Word of God, so 0:06:53.500 --> 0:06:55.820 he can get some spiritual heft on our bones. And boy, 0:06:55.940 --> 0:06:58.020 I have to do is spend five minutes outside your 0:06:58.020 --> 0:07:00.260 little tent and you realize that the winds are howling. 0:07:00.260 --> 0:07:03.620 All of creation is groaning and strong, brave, courageous Christians 0:07:03.620 --> 0:07:06.940 are needed now more than ever before. So having said 0:07:06.940 --> 0:07:09.060 all of that, roll up your sleeves. Keep your hands 0:07:09.060 --> 0:07:11.300 inside the car at all times, keep your seatbelt on 0:07:11.300 --> 0:07:12.740 and we're going to go round robin. In case you 0:07:12.740 --> 0:07:14.860 didn't know, today was a busy day at the United 0:07:14.860 --> 0:07:18.420 States Supreme Court. In fact, how many times do I 0:07:18.420 --> 0:07:21.140 always say this is the fireworks before the fireworks? Right? 0:07:21.140 --> 0:07:23.820 So this is the Friday before next Friday, which is 0:07:23.820 --> 0:07:25.980 the 4th of July. But if you're a court watcher, 0:07:25.980 --> 0:07:29.340 you know that their term ends on Monday because Tuesday 0:07:29.340 --> 0:07:31.700 is the 1st of July. That meant that all of 0:07:31.700 --> 0:07:34.940 the hot, controversial cases were going to get handed down, 0:07:34.980 --> 0:07:37.580 probably in mass toward the end of the term. And boy, 0:07:37.580 --> 0:07:40.500 oh boy, between yesterday and today, that's exactly what they did. 0:07:40.540 --> 0:07:42.980 And there are some winners in there, and I mean 0:07:42.980 --> 0:07:45.860 winners for us culturally, and I'm glad we're going to 0:07:45.860 --> 0:07:47.620 spend some time talking about it. So let me go 0:07:47.620 --> 0:07:50.290 to one, because I am. I am through the roof. 0:07:50.290 --> 0:07:52.050 I am so happy about this case. And Craig and 0:07:52.050 --> 0:07:53.210 I are going to tell you why in just a 0:07:53.210 --> 0:07:54.930 little bit, but I want you to hear this piece. 0:07:54.930 --> 0:07:57.170 It was actually done on one of the alphabet soup networks, 0:07:57.170 --> 0:07:58.770 and it was done in April when the High Court 0:07:58.770 --> 0:08:03.170 was hearing oral arguments in a case called Mahmoud versus Taylor. 0:08:03.170 --> 0:08:05.450 It does a great job of explaining the background. Have 0:08:05.450 --> 0:08:05.970 a listen. 0:08:06.330 --> 0:08:09.530 This is a case that began in a few Maryland classrooms, 0:08:09.530 --> 0:08:14.250 but the ultimate decision could affect public schools all across 0:08:14.250 --> 0:08:15.170 this country. 0:08:15.450 --> 0:08:16.850 We will prevail. 0:08:16.890 --> 0:08:20.050 In a fight over parental and religious rights. The nine 0:08:20.050 --> 0:08:23.930 Supreme Court justices waded into the classroom at issue whether 0:08:23.930 --> 0:08:27.690 Montgomery County, Maryland, should reinstate an opt out policy for 0:08:27.690 --> 0:08:31.730 parents who don't want their children, some as young as kindergarten. 0:08:31.770 --> 0:08:36.450 Learning from books containing LGBTQ and other controversial themes. 0:08:36.490 --> 0:08:40.809 There wasn't coercion here that it was mere exposure. I 0:08:40.850 --> 0:08:45.290 understood from the record that all that was required is 0:08:45.290 --> 0:08:47.870 that the books be put on the bookshelf. 0:08:47.910 --> 0:08:50.709 It has a clear moral message and it may be 0:08:50.710 --> 0:08:52.670 a good message. It's just a message that a lot 0:08:52.710 --> 0:08:54.350 of religious people disagree with. 0:08:54.390 --> 0:08:56.710 One of the picture books mentioned the story of a 0:08:56.710 --> 0:08:59.470 prince and a male knight who defeat a monster and 0:08:59.470 --> 0:09:03.110 fall in love. Grace Morrison and other parents are suing, 0:09:03.270 --> 0:09:08.390 arguing the opt out policy was removed in 2023 without notice. 0:09:08.429 --> 0:09:12.190 This is basically restoring the rights that parents have had 0:09:12.190 --> 0:09:13.350 in Montgomery County. 0:09:13.390 --> 0:09:16.510 They want the opt out policy back in. The opposing 0:09:16.510 --> 0:09:18.470 side also at the court today. 0:09:18.670 --> 0:09:23.550 We know that a number of our kids are LGBTQ plus. 0:09:23.830 --> 0:09:26.830 And the reality that we're talking about today is people 0:09:26.830 --> 0:09:31.709 want to erase us from books. They want to erase 0:09:31.750 --> 0:09:33.590 us from existing. 0:09:33.630 --> 0:09:37.990 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, suggesting the court's final decision could 0:09:37.990 --> 0:09:39.750 affect more than the curriculum. 0:09:39.790 --> 0:09:43.710 What about a trans student in the classroom? There's a 0:09:43.710 --> 0:09:47.460 student who's in the class, must the teacher notify the 0:09:47.460 --> 0:09:51.580 parents of the student's existence and give them an opt 0:09:51.580 --> 0:09:54.459 out to not be in the same classroom with this child? 0:09:54.500 --> 0:09:56.460 No, we've never said that there's an independent right to 0:09:56.460 --> 0:09:59.540 be noted for schools to anticipate what parents might object to, 0:09:59.540 --> 0:10:01.540 but when parents know something, there could be a sincere 0:10:01.580 --> 0:10:02.500 religious burden. 0:10:02.540 --> 0:10:04.900 Ultimately, the majority of the court seemed to favor the 0:10:04.900 --> 0:10:08.059 arguments by the parents. A decision is expected in this 0:10:08.059 --> 0:10:10.100 big case by the end of June. 0:10:11.059 --> 0:10:14.140 And guess what? It's the end of June. And guess what? 0:10:14.140 --> 0:10:17.260 The decision came down today. And guess what? It is 0:10:17.260 --> 0:10:20.260 a 6 to 3 victory. I'm going to turn to 0:10:20.300 --> 0:10:23.940 another alphabet soup outlet. They'll give you their take on 0:10:23.940 --> 0:10:26.340 what the court did today. And then this fellow sitting 0:10:26.340 --> 0:10:27.940 next to me, who knows the law inside out and 0:10:27.940 --> 0:10:29.740 upside down, is going to offer a lot of insight. 0:10:29.740 --> 0:10:33.420 So here's a CBS news report on today's victory for 0:10:33.420 --> 0:10:34.340 parents rights. 0:10:34.700 --> 0:10:37.980 The bottom line is that the parents lodged a First 0:10:37.980 --> 0:10:42.500 Amendment claim, saying that it violated their free Exercise Clause 0:10:42.540 --> 0:10:46.929 rights to not have notice and an opt out provision 0:10:46.929 --> 0:10:53.130 when their children were read. LGBTQ inclusive educational materials at school. 0:10:53.170 --> 0:10:56.210 Justice Alito wrote the opinion. It looks like it is 0:10:56.210 --> 0:10:58.690 exactly as we talked about a few moments ago. Vlad 0:10:58.730 --> 0:11:01.970 a win for the parents. I saw very briefly the 0:11:01.970 --> 0:11:06.290 majority saying that parents have genuinely held beliefs and that 0:11:06.290 --> 0:11:11.010 it substantially infringes on those beliefs, not to provide them 0:11:11.010 --> 0:11:14.089 with notice and an opt out when certain materials are 0:11:14.090 --> 0:11:16.690 read to their parents. I think this is part of 0:11:16.730 --> 0:11:20.050 a larger theme of this court being very protective of 0:11:20.050 --> 0:11:25.650 the rights of religious objectors and protective of free Exercise 0:11:25.650 --> 0:11:29.850 Clause rights. Um, Vlad, as we talked about before, I 0:11:29.850 --> 0:11:32.930 think the fascinating part of this will be looking to 0:11:32.929 --> 0:11:38.290 see exactly how the court creates the standard for determining 0:11:38.290 --> 0:11:41.850 when parents are entitled to notice and an opt out. 0:11:42.010 --> 0:11:46.150 I think my guess again, looking extremely fast, which is 0:11:46.150 --> 0:11:49.550 that the court is going to stay fairly close to 0:11:49.590 --> 0:11:54.470 these particular facts and, uh, try and highlight that this 0:11:54.470 --> 0:11:58.630 is not open season for parents to start saying we 0:11:58.670 --> 0:12:01.150 don't want our children to hear X and to hear Y, 0:12:01.190 --> 0:12:04.190 and to hear Z, because you do want to provide 0:12:04.190 --> 0:12:09.470 school boards with some ability to dictate their curriculum. Um, 0:12:09.470 --> 0:12:12.670 so again, this case, as we talked about before the break, 0:12:12.670 --> 0:12:16.990 I think predicted a win for the parents, a win 0:12:16.990 --> 0:12:20.829 for those claiming that their free Exercise clause rights are 0:12:20.830 --> 0:12:25.390 infringed upon. And again, the real question here will be 0:12:25.990 --> 0:12:28.670 how the opinion is drafted in order to make sure 0:12:28.670 --> 0:12:31.829 that school boards can still dictate large portions of their 0:12:31.870 --> 0:12:32.829 own curriculum. 0:12:33.230 --> 0:12:35.550 Well, it was drafted beautifully. And by the way, I'm 0:12:35.550 --> 0:12:38.510 glad I pointed out CBS. I'm glad I underscored Alphabet Soup. 0:12:38.550 --> 0:12:42.660 Now that's a bias. And that little slanted word there. 0:12:42.700 --> 0:12:46.860 Objective there. Rather subjective viewpoint on the case comes through 0:12:46.860 --> 0:12:48.300 loud and clear. Now I'm glad I'm going to turn 0:12:48.300 --> 0:12:50.420 to this fellow here. So let me just tell you 0:12:50.460 --> 0:12:52.420 five seconds by way of background. Again, this was a 0:12:52.420 --> 0:12:54.980 fascinating case in terms of being a very eclectic group 0:12:54.980 --> 0:12:58.660 of parents. There were Orthodox Christians, there were Muslim parents, 0:12:58.860 --> 0:13:01.500 there were parents of various different worldviews. But what pulled 0:13:01.500 --> 0:13:04.619 them all together was the fact that they said, absolutely not. 0:13:04.780 --> 0:13:06.860 We don't want our child exposed to this. We want 0:13:06.860 --> 0:13:08.820 the right to opt out. And for a while, Montgomery 0:13:08.820 --> 0:13:11.140 County Schools let them opt out and then abracadabra, without 0:13:11.140 --> 0:13:13.780 giving any reason, they pulled off and said, you can't 0:13:13.820 --> 0:13:16.060 opt out. Well, that's when you know they're moving from 0:13:16.059 --> 0:13:19.260 educator to propagator, okay, now they're going to be propagandizing 0:13:19.260 --> 0:13:21.660 the kids. And the parents said, no, we want to 0:13:21.660 --> 0:13:24.420 be able to say if it's violative of our sincerely 0:13:24.460 --> 0:13:27.140 held beliefs, we have the right to opt our child out. 0:13:27.140 --> 0:13:29.939 What's so cool, Craig, is when the decision came down 0:13:29.940 --> 0:13:31.940 and it was six three, let's call him out, okay? 0:13:31.980 --> 0:13:36.579 It's the three liberal female justice again Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson. 0:13:36.580 --> 0:13:40.410 All of them were the three that in the final decision. 0:13:40.410 --> 0:13:44.209 The brief even includes pictures from the books that were 0:13:44.210 --> 0:13:46.689 used in this classroom. Why is that so cool? Because 0:13:46.730 --> 0:13:49.530 do you understand, friends, that in Board of Education meetings 0:13:49.530 --> 0:13:51.130 all across the country, all you have to do is 0:13:51.130 --> 0:13:53.490 spend five minutes on X and you're going to see 0:13:53.490 --> 0:13:57.130 how many parents show up and they read from these books. 0:13:57.290 --> 0:13:59.490 They tell the school board, this is what my child 0:13:59.490 --> 0:14:01.650 is being exposed to, and how many times their mics 0:14:01.650 --> 0:14:05.210 were cut, or some sitting school board member would say, 0:14:05.210 --> 0:14:07.850 that's inappropriate speech here. Oh, it's okay for Suzy in 0:14:07.850 --> 0:14:09.569 second grade to get it, but it's not okay for 0:14:09.570 --> 0:14:11.490 Susie's dad to read it at a school board meeting. 0:14:11.490 --> 0:14:14.449 I get it. Makes perfect sense. And so the Supreme 0:14:14.450 --> 0:14:19.650 Court in The Ultimate Parents Move actually includes the language 0:14:19.650 --> 0:14:22.770 and pictures from some of these books to make the point. 0:14:22.770 --> 0:14:27.170 So there's no ambiguity. Craig. We desperately needed a reaffirmation 0:14:27.170 --> 0:14:29.330 of parents rights, so take it from here. This was 0:14:29.330 --> 0:14:30.690 stunningly important. 0:14:30.730 --> 0:14:34.330 Yeah, it was, first of all, because the Supreme Court 0:14:34.530 --> 0:14:37.530 has sort of danced around the edges of the issue 0:14:37.530 --> 0:14:42.790 of parental rights versus the overwhelming power of public school 0:14:42.790 --> 0:14:48.750 officials to indoctrinate, to control, and to give permission to 0:14:48.790 --> 0:14:53.830 or deny permission for opt outs when the parents object 0:14:53.830 --> 0:14:57.070 based on free exercise of religion, which of course is 0:14:57.070 --> 0:14:59.790 embedded in the First Amendment. So you'd think there shouldn't 0:14:59.790 --> 0:15:04.750 be any argument in this case. The bottom line result 0:15:05.910 --> 0:15:07.710 and the reasoning we'll get to in a second. But 0:15:07.710 --> 0:15:12.070 the bottom the bottom line result is that the Supreme 0:15:12.070 --> 0:15:17.630 Court told Montgomery County, go back. And at least for 0:15:17.630 --> 0:15:21.150 the time being, as this case moves on, you're going 0:15:21.150 --> 0:15:24.110 to be required to have the same opt out you 0:15:24.110 --> 0:15:27.510 originally granted. And there was, by the way, no evidence 0:15:27.510 --> 0:15:33.390 whatsoever in the factual record that they stopped the original 0:15:33.390 --> 0:15:38.020 permission for opt out for people who, based on faith objections, said, 0:15:38.020 --> 0:15:40.260 I don't want my child to be exposed to this 0:15:40.300 --> 0:15:43.300 in the grade school. Remember, this is not seniors in 0:15:43.300 --> 0:15:46.900 high school ready for college. These are grade school children. 0:15:47.740 --> 0:15:50.060 And there was no evidence that it was found to 0:15:50.060 --> 0:15:53.780 be infeasible, unfeasible for them. Well, we tried it, but 0:15:53.780 --> 0:15:56.860 there were administrative nightmares that we couldn't, you know, cope 0:15:56.860 --> 0:15:59.780 with the problems. No, there was no evidence of that, 0:15:59.780 --> 0:16:03.420 that it was not feasible. It was feasible. Original originally. 0:16:03.420 --> 0:16:05.380 And then they decided to take it away. So that's 0:16:05.380 --> 0:16:07.460 the bottom line in terms of the result. But the 0:16:07.460 --> 0:16:11.300 reasoning of the case is very important. It's been more 0:16:11.300 --> 0:16:14.620 than I'd say, about four and a half decades since 0:16:14.620 --> 0:16:21.020 the Supreme Court has dealt front face, uh, on the, the, 0:16:22.180 --> 0:16:25.500 the bottom line and the top line of what happens 0:16:25.500 --> 0:16:29.660 when there's a conflict between the sincerely held religious beliefs 0:16:29.660 --> 0:16:33.460 of parents who send their children with their tax dollars 0:16:33.460 --> 0:16:37.760 to a public school, a government school, and that government 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:41.920 public school says, no, that child belongs to us now, 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.120 the village, not the parents, and we will force them 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.880 to be exposed to this possible indoctrination of social values 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:55.080 that violently conflict with the religious beliefs of the parents. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.000 So it's been four and a half or so decades 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.280 since they went into that case and the Yoder case. 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:06.240 Amish families. The Amish families won, the public schools lost 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.520 in terms of forced education in general. So this is 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.600 a massive clarification of the fact that parents have the 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.760 fundamental constitutional right to direct the education and the morals 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.359 and the religious beliefs of their children, not the public school. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.000 So when we come back, let's talk about what some 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.880 of the justices wrote in their opinion and how this 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.800 will affect all 50 schools, and what parents can expect 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.790 in terms of being able to be the final arbiter 0:17:34.950 --> 0:17:38.110 of what Johnny and Susie have to be exposed to. 0:17:38.510 --> 0:17:40.389 This was also, by the way, not just shoring up 0:17:40.390 --> 0:17:42.510 parents rights. This is a shoring up of the First Amendment. 0:17:42.510 --> 0:17:45.510 So this was essential, timely, and with all of the 0:17:45.510 --> 0:17:48.790 challenges out there to parenting our children and our free 0:17:48.790 --> 0:18:00.669 exercise clause. Well, this is important. More after this. 6 0:18:00.670 --> 0:18:03.550 to 3 the U.S. Supreme Court hands down a decision 0:18:03.550 --> 0:18:07.550 for parents for protecting the free exercise of religion clause 0:18:07.910 --> 0:18:10.229 in the case Mahmoud versus Taylor. I cannot tell you 0:18:10.230 --> 0:18:12.470 how significant and how important this is. And I told 0:18:12.470 --> 0:18:14.630 you it was biggie, and I told you it would 0:18:14.630 --> 0:18:18.070 be the fireworks before the fireworks. And they waited almost 0:18:18.070 --> 0:18:19.949 until the very last minute of their term to be 0:18:19.990 --> 0:18:22.070 able to hand it down. So it was just a 0:18:22.070 --> 0:18:24.629 Samuel Alito who wrote for the majority. Again, remember, it 0:18:24.630 --> 0:18:27.430 was 63 female justices. In fact, a lot of these 0:18:27.430 --> 0:18:29.350 decisions we're going to we're going to talk about that 0:18:29.350 --> 0:18:31.820 were handed down were all six, three, six, three, six, three, 6363. 0:18:31.859 --> 0:18:35.340 Same three dissenting judges every single time. The three liberal females. 0:18:35.619 --> 0:18:38.460 So Justice Alito explained that the right to exercise religion 0:18:38.460 --> 0:18:41.220 includes the parents rights to direct the religious instruction of 0:18:41.260 --> 0:18:44.340 their children and putting parents on the sidelines, which is 0:18:44.340 --> 0:18:46.620 Montgomery County. Exactly what they did when they said, you 0:18:46.619 --> 0:18:49.940 can't opt your child out while schools impose their own 0:18:49.940 --> 0:18:53.739 sexual ideology on children, obviously interferes with that, right. So, 0:18:53.780 --> 0:18:56.300 as Alito explained and I'm quoting him now, the board's 0:18:56.300 --> 0:18:59.780 introduction of the LGBTQ plus inclusive, that was their title, 0:18:59.780 --> 0:19:05.060 LGBTQ Plus Inclusive storybooks, combined with its decision to withhold 0:19:05.060 --> 0:19:09.340 notice to parents and forbid opt outs, substantially interferes with 0:19:09.340 --> 0:19:13.300 the religious development of their children. That is what every 0:19:13.300 --> 0:19:15.460 mom and dad who's been showing up at these school 0:19:15.460 --> 0:19:18.700 board meetings for the last two years has been saying, 0:19:18.700 --> 0:19:20.660 so you can cut their mics all you want to. 0:19:20.700 --> 0:19:22.379 We thank you so much for your service on the 0:19:22.380 --> 0:19:25.780 school board. But you got to understand, they're not your children. 0:19:25.780 --> 0:19:27.619 They're the children who are of the people who are 0:19:27.619 --> 0:19:31.440 coming to the microphone saying, no, absolutely not with my child. 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.320 And then the paradox and the farce of all of this, 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.119 of the opera buffa that this is, is that you 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:38.960 can say to a parent, no, you can't read that here. 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.920 It's inappropriate, but you can read it in second grade. Okay. 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.160 So again, many parents don't have any choice. They have 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.119 to send their child to a public school. And so Alito, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.840 recognizing that fact, wrote that it is the government's the 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.480 government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.480 them to submit their children to instruction that pose a 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:03.520 very real threat of undermining hugely important words coming from 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:07.960 a Supreme Court justice. Burdens the religious exercise of parents 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.480 who require them to submit to children. To submit their 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.760 children to instruction that poses a very real threat of 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.640 undermining the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.719 to install. So that raises a question. Let me go 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.280 back to something that was gently referred to on that 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.040 CBS story, which is, okay, this is a victory now 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.750 in Montgomery County, Maryland, but this is going to impact 0:20:29.750 --> 0:20:33.470 50 states across the country. So those liberal propagandists who 0:20:33.470 --> 0:20:36.470 are in the classroom, who do not respect or cherish 0:20:36.470 --> 0:20:40.070 the First Amendment or choose to acknowledge the sincerely held 0:20:40.070 --> 0:20:42.430 religious beliefs of parents, they're going to have to put 0:20:42.430 --> 0:20:44.910 down these books. And if Susie's mom says, I'm opting 0:20:44.910 --> 0:20:47.629 my child out, there aren't strong footing to do that now, 0:20:47.630 --> 0:20:48.470 it seems to me. 0:20:48.910 --> 0:20:52.109 Yeah, I think so too. The elements that the court 0:20:52.109 --> 0:20:54.109 looked at here. First of all, they look at the 0:20:54.109 --> 0:20:58.670 past legal precedents for this. And clearly there was precedent 0:20:58.950 --> 0:21:02.270 in prior cases. I mentioned the Yoder case, the Amish 0:21:02.310 --> 0:21:06.030 families who objected to compulsory public education after a certain age, 0:21:06.270 --> 0:21:09.669 and the Supreme Court, uh, two and a half, four 0:21:09.670 --> 0:21:13.389 and a half decades ago, agreed with them at that point. Uh, 0:21:13.510 --> 0:21:18.070 the Barnette case versus West Virginia, that was a compulsory, um, 0:21:18.790 --> 0:21:24.149 recitation of the, uh. You know, a creed that the. 0:21:24.950 --> 0:21:25.750 Pledge of Allegiance. 0:21:25.910 --> 0:21:29.449 The pledge of Allegiance. That from a creed standpoint, any 0:21:29.450 --> 0:21:35.050 creed Jehovah's Witnesses object to. So, uh, for them, any 0:21:35.050 --> 0:21:40.530 creedal acknowledgement like that, um, is, uh, is verboten. And 0:21:40.530 --> 0:21:42.730 the Supreme Court agreed. Now, that was a free speech 0:21:43.010 --> 0:21:47.889 case with religious underpinnings, uh, as was Yoder. But Yoder 0:21:47.890 --> 0:21:53.210 was free exercise, uh, combined with the idea of parental rights. 0:21:53.330 --> 0:21:58.130 This was, uh, this case, the Mahmood case is, uh, 0:21:58.130 --> 0:22:04.129 very explicit about the fact that if there is actual 0:22:04.450 --> 0:22:10.450 objective or even implicit coercion of a child in terms 0:22:10.450 --> 0:22:15.090 of what they call normative values that conflict, we're not 0:22:15.090 --> 0:22:17.889 talking about facts. We're not talking about, you know, I 0:22:17.890 --> 0:22:21.010 don't believe in mathematics in my family, uh, as a 0:22:21.010 --> 0:22:23.490 matter of religion. So we want our child to be 0:22:23.490 --> 0:22:27.760 opted out of mathematics classes. Um, or I want them 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:31.000 not to be exposed to history because I, you know, 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:34.480 my family denies that the Holocaust ever took place. That 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:38.200 is a different situation. Uh, this is where the Supreme 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:41.199 Court looked at the curriculum, and they came to a 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:44.600 conclusion that, in fact, that's that's why they made it 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:47.719 very plain in their decision what this curriculum was. They 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:54.040 said it's normative on one view of sexuality and gender identity. 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:59.400 And that's really indoctrination, number one. So it's coercive. But 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:03.600 number two, it directly burdens families that say, no, we 0:23:03.600 --> 0:23:07.280 absolutely don't believe in that normative approach. And again, it's 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:10.200 not math. It's not history. Uh, it was really a 0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:13.320 course on sexuality for kids in grade school. 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:16.200 That's why Sotomayor, in oral arguments, when they were doing 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:19.119 the back and forth with the parties who were arguing, 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:22.640 she talked about the difference between coercion and exposure. Well, 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:24.830 it was a form of coercion if you don't allow 0:23:24.830 --> 0:23:26.869 Johnny to opt out of the classroom and he's forced 0:23:26.910 --> 0:23:29.350 to have to hear it, that's the very working definition 0:23:29.350 --> 0:23:31.669 of what it means to be coerced, is it not? 0:23:31.710 --> 0:23:36.030 Yeah. You don't need physical coercion. You don't need proof 0:23:36.030 --> 0:23:38.830 that they tied them to their desk. As a matter 0:23:38.830 --> 0:23:41.670 of fact, the Supreme Court for years. Remember when we 0:23:41.670 --> 0:23:44.629 had the rash of cases around the country, uh, that 0:23:44.670 --> 0:23:47.270 had been going on for quite a while, where the 0:23:47.270 --> 0:23:51.950 valedictorian of a high school class, um, delivers a speech, 0:23:51.950 --> 0:23:53.710 and they happen to be a Christian. And so they 0:23:53.710 --> 0:23:56.869 share their personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and the school 0:23:56.869 --> 0:23:59.070 finds out about it in advance and say, no, you 0:23:59.070 --> 0:24:04.830 cannot infuse your faith. Uh, and finally, one of those cases, uh, 0:24:05.310 --> 0:24:09.989 it was a rabbi who, uh, was invited to speak and, uh, 0:24:09.990 --> 0:24:13.270 the Supreme Court said, no, that's that's a, that's an 0:24:13.270 --> 0:24:16.550 unwilling audience that shouldn't have to be exposed to that. Well, 0:24:16.550 --> 0:24:18.950 now it's turned around in the right way. 0:24:19.310 --> 0:24:22.810 So, Alito says perfectly, a government burdens the religious exercise 0:24:22.810 --> 0:24:24.929 of parents when it requires them to submit their children 0:24:24.930 --> 0:24:28.410 to instruction. That poses a very real threat of undermining 0:24:28.410 --> 0:24:31.810 the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to install. 0:24:31.810 --> 0:24:35.409 Such interference, we have observed, carries with it precisely the 0:24:35.410 --> 0:24:39.210 kind of objective danger to the free exercise of religion 0:24:39.210 --> 0:24:42.970 that the First Amendment was designed to prevent. Great day 0:24:42.970 --> 0:24:45.930 for parents and a wonderful victory. Thank you Lord. Back 0:24:45.930 --> 0:25:00.370 after this. What's the goal of in the market? I'll 0:25:00.369 --> 0:25:02.609 tell you. 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Then they'll pack up, they'll lecture, they'll write books, 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:44.679 they'll travel abroad, and then they'll get ready to start 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:48.000 all over again the first Monday in October. So another 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:51.040 case had to do with free speech and pornography. And 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:54.000 I want you to hear a state rep and why 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:57.760 this particular person is arguing for kids to have access 0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:00.480 to pornography just by way of background. Have a listen. 0:26:00.680 --> 0:26:03.800 We should all recognize the dangers that unrestricted access to 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:08.200 explicit content poses to young minds. Studies have shown that 0:26:08.200 --> 0:26:14.440 exposure to pornography can lead to issues like predatory behavior, abuse, anxiety, depression, 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:18.720 and distorted views of relationship. Present day pornography is not 0:26:18.720 --> 0:26:22.780 the same as things we found in magazines from the 70s. 0:26:22.820 --> 0:26:26.420 Simply naked pictures. Pornography. Pornography of this day and age 0:26:26.420 --> 0:26:30.380 is more likely to be violent, sadistic, and have emotionally 0:26:30.380 --> 0:26:35.780 traumatizing content that children are unable to handle. In 2022, 0:26:35.900 --> 0:26:40.260 a report noted that 54% of teens surveyed first saw 0:26:40.300 --> 0:26:45.500 online pornography at age 13 or younger, with 15% exposed 0:26:45.500 --> 0:26:50.460 before age 11. The Institute for Family Studies highlights that 93% 0:26:50.460 --> 0:26:54.820 of boys and 63% of girls report exposure to internet 0:26:54.820 --> 0:26:59.300 pornography before age 18, with the average age of first 0:26:59.300 --> 0:27:00.940 exposure being 12. 0:27:01.260 --> 0:27:05.379 These parameters could limit young people's access to sexual and 0:27:05.380 --> 0:27:10.580 reproductive health care information on websites that might fall under 0:27:10.580 --> 0:27:14.620 the definition of obscenity, but really be intended for educational 0:27:15.020 --> 0:27:17.220 purposes for their use. 0:27:18.290 --> 0:27:23.090 Yeah, two different reps, two different worldviews. Big chasm between 0:27:23.090 --> 0:27:26.090 the two. Big problem, particularly with number two. You see 0:27:26.090 --> 0:27:28.010 this guys? No no no. This is going to prohibit 0:27:28.010 --> 0:27:29.890 their education. You know, we want them to be able 0:27:29.890 --> 0:27:33.010 to be exposed to these things because hey they got questions. 0:27:33.010 --> 0:27:35.410 Yeah I'll bet they do. So in the United States 0:27:35.410 --> 0:27:37.570 Supreme Court today answered some of those questions in a 0:27:37.570 --> 0:27:41.850 case called Free Speech Coalition v Paxton. Here is a 0:27:41.850 --> 0:27:44.530 report from CBS that tells you the outcome. 0:27:44.770 --> 0:27:47.010 The one big case they decided was a challenge to 0:27:47.050 --> 0:27:51.610 a Texas law that basically imposed age verification requirements for 0:27:51.609 --> 0:27:55.010 people who wanted to access porn sites on the internet. 0:27:55.010 --> 0:27:59.370 The Supreme Court considered a First Amendment challenge. Basically, adults 0:27:59.369 --> 0:28:03.290 were challenging the law, saying that these age verification requirements 0:28:03.290 --> 0:28:06.170 infringed on their First Amendment rights to read content that 0:28:06.170 --> 0:28:08.930 they wanted to see on the internet. The Supreme Court 0:28:08.970 --> 0:28:11.890 reviewed the law and upheld it. They said the law 0:28:11.890 --> 0:28:16.160 was constitutional. They applied what's known as an intermediate Immediate 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:19.120 scrutiny test, which is not the test that the challengers 0:28:19.119 --> 0:28:22.320 were arguing for. They wanted it to be reviewed under 0:28:22.320 --> 0:28:25.160 a more strict standard of review, but the Supreme Court 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:28.560 applied an intermediate standard of review and held that Texas's 0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:32.400 law was permissible and survived constitutional scrutiny. 0:28:33.440 --> 0:28:35.080 Okay. Now there's an awful lot there, and you're going 0:28:35.080 --> 0:28:37.360 to break that down. And for the record, Your Honor, 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:39.240 I should point out that you briefed on this case 0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:41.600 and filed an amicus with the United States Supreme Court 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:44.320 on this particular case. So I know you're very happy 0:28:44.320 --> 0:28:47.320 because you were arguing for exactly the outcome that happened today, 0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:49.720 which is six three. So, first of all, the porn 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:52.400 industry is a multibillion dollar industry, and they want to 0:28:52.400 --> 0:28:54.480 get kids as quick as they can and as soon 0:28:54.480 --> 0:28:56.640 as they can, because once they've gone and they've gotten 0:28:56.640 --> 0:28:59.880 their whole neural pathways rewired, they're hooked for life. And 0:28:59.880 --> 0:29:01.400 now we're going to bring them in early so we 0:29:01.400 --> 0:29:03.920 can get them to be addicts to pornography. And they 0:29:03.920 --> 0:29:06.200 don't really care how much their lives get messed up 0:29:06.200 --> 0:29:08.640 or who gets hurt. And it is not, by the way, 0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:11.760 a victimless business by any stretch of the imagination. So 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:14.440 you'll get into the weeds. I know about this intermediate 0:29:14.440 --> 0:29:17.540 scrutiny in a minute. But just in common parlance, explain 0:29:17.540 --> 0:29:19.020 to us exactly what happened today. 0:29:19.460 --> 0:29:22.300 Well, first of all, you don't know the ball game 0:29:22.580 --> 0:29:26.500 without knowing who the parties are and who was trying 0:29:26.500 --> 0:29:30.300 to argue against Texas law that was passed by the 0:29:30.300 --> 0:29:35.980 Texas legislature that put restrictions on websites and on social 0:29:35.980 --> 0:29:41.980 media companies to have to provide age verification so that 0:29:41.980 --> 0:29:45.860 children would not be exposed to what we call obscene 0:29:45.900 --> 0:29:49.140 for minors. Now, first of all, Supreme Court has said 0:29:50.180 --> 0:29:53.300 for many, many years, obscenity as a rule, as a 0:29:53.300 --> 0:29:57.900 general rule is, is can be outlawed, can be prohibited 0:29:57.900 --> 0:30:03.540 by legislatures, even for adults. So obscenity as a as 0:30:03.580 --> 0:30:07.300 a rule, is not protected by the First Amendment. Now 0:30:07.300 --> 0:30:11.060 we have another category called obscene for minors. Meaning from 0:30:11.060 --> 0:30:14.570 the standpoint of a minor viewing Interviewing it. It is obscene, 0:30:14.570 --> 0:30:17.530 even if it's not deemed to be obscene for adults. 0:30:17.530 --> 0:30:22.010 And that obviously makes sense. The emotional development, spiritual, moral 0:30:22.010 --> 0:30:24.570 and so forth of a of a child is different 0:30:24.570 --> 0:30:28.890 than an adult, supposedly. Um, we allow certain speech to 0:30:28.890 --> 0:30:32.930 be exposed to adults that we don't for children. So 0:30:32.970 --> 0:30:39.370 that's the general framework. Now, what the the arguments against 0:30:39.370 --> 0:30:41.770 this law in Texas about just you got to prove 0:30:41.770 --> 0:30:45.810 your age with a variety of different mechanisms, uh, driver's 0:30:45.810 --> 0:30:51.970 license or other documents or, uh, any, frankly, any reasonable, uh, 0:30:52.090 --> 0:30:56.370 age verification system that isn't unduly burdensome, uh, could comply 0:30:56.410 --> 0:31:00.010 could comply with the Texas law. So who are the 0:31:00.010 --> 0:31:05.290 people arguing against it? It was the pornography industry and 0:31:05.290 --> 0:31:08.970 sex workers who were represented by the same group. In 0:31:08.970 --> 0:31:12.270 other words, these are people who want to put the 0:31:12.270 --> 0:31:17.910 vilest kind of, uh, emotionally damaging information and content and 0:31:17.910 --> 0:31:23.390 visual depictions in front of children, because what's their argument? Well, 0:31:23.430 --> 0:31:26.990 because a couple of some, some adults may have it 0:31:27.030 --> 0:31:29.670 have a hard time with this idea of I have 0:31:29.670 --> 0:31:33.230 to verify my age. I don't like that. Uh, it 0:31:33.270 --> 0:31:35.670 invades my privacy. Oh, in other words, you don't want 0:31:35.670 --> 0:31:40.070 the world to know. Or at least someone who's regulatory 0:31:40.310 --> 0:31:43.870 to know that you want to view this stuff. Well, 0:31:44.230 --> 0:31:47.630 that burden is not a substantial burden. The burden really 0:31:47.630 --> 0:31:50.990 is on the children whose lives will be destroyed or 0:31:50.990 --> 0:31:53.470 twisted as a result of this. In the Supreme Court 0:31:53.510 --> 0:31:59.110 decided that this is reasonable. Now, this intermediate, uh, intermediate 0:31:59.150 --> 0:32:03.550 scrutiny issue was very, very important because you really have 0:32:03.550 --> 0:32:07.510 three levels of scrutiny. One is strict scrutiny. And that's 0:32:07.510 --> 0:32:11.300 a very high standard that a state legislature or Congress 0:32:11.300 --> 0:32:14.900 has to meet, and very rarely can they meet that 0:32:14.900 --> 0:32:19.020 and have their law upheld without being struck down. Obviously, 0:32:19.020 --> 0:32:23.060 the porn industry and the sex worker industry wanted the 0:32:23.060 --> 0:32:26.980 highest level because they wanted a chance of winning this thing, 0:32:26.980 --> 0:32:31.020 hands down. Well, the court didn't give them that. Now 0:32:31.020 --> 0:32:34.900 the lowest level is called rational basis, and almost every 0:32:34.900 --> 0:32:38.780 law is upheld under rational basis. What they did is 0:32:38.780 --> 0:32:41.700 they struck a bargain and they had an intermediate standard. 0:32:41.700 --> 0:32:45.420 And I think, frankly, the brief that I wrote up 0:32:45.420 --> 0:32:51.620 for an organization American Principles project, we said, look, it 0:32:51.620 --> 0:32:56.860 passes either rational basis or intermediate scrutiny. Intermediate scrutiny simply 0:32:56.860 --> 0:33:00.220 means that you have to have a, quote, substantial state 0:33:00.220 --> 0:33:03.500 interest or governmental interest in protecting children. Doesn't have to 0:33:03.500 --> 0:33:05.820 be compelling. And you don't have to meet a number 0:33:05.820 --> 0:33:09.530 of other requirements in terms of making sure that you 0:33:09.570 --> 0:33:15.530 fashion this law perfectly without being overly broad or overly 0:33:15.530 --> 0:33:20.210 inclusive or under inclusive and all these technical requirements. No, 0:33:20.250 --> 0:33:24.610 it simply has to be a substantial interest, uh, and 0:33:24.650 --> 0:33:28.490 tied to a reasonable result in terms of how you legislate. 0:33:28.490 --> 0:33:31.130 So the bottom line is this states can now and 0:33:31.130 --> 0:33:34.570 by the way, there are more than 20 states already 0:33:34.570 --> 0:33:38.170 with similar laws similar to Texas. So this is a 0:33:38.210 --> 0:33:42.570 very important case because now it affects a number of states, 0:33:43.450 --> 0:33:46.650 these laws and they can put them into effect. And 0:33:46.690 --> 0:33:51.170 of course the porn industry is, uh, angry upset because 0:33:51.170 --> 0:33:55.650 they're losing their, their money base, uh, because you have 0:33:55.650 --> 0:33:58.209 to pay to get onto these sites, many of them, 0:33:58.410 --> 0:34:02.050 and they hook you with free content. And then, uh, 0:34:02.050 --> 0:34:07.210 teenagers and middle schoolers can start using their parents credit 0:34:07.350 --> 0:34:11.390 card to try to overcome the barriers to being able 0:34:11.390 --> 0:34:14.710 to have exposure to this. So not only is it 0:34:14.750 --> 0:34:17.910 important from the standpoint of porn, it's also the first 0:34:17.910 --> 0:34:21.069 time the Supreme Court has really said there are reasonable 0:34:21.070 --> 0:34:26.069 mechanisms by which state legislatures or, and or Congress, and 0:34:26.070 --> 0:34:30.950 this is winding its way to Congress, uh, are to, uh, 0:34:31.150 --> 0:34:36.190 constitutionally going to be able to regulate social media giants 0:34:36.190 --> 0:34:39.630 who up to now have had carte blanche in doing 0:34:39.630 --> 0:34:42.589 whatever they want to do, and they are rogue nations 0:34:42.590 --> 0:34:45.350 in themselves. That's probably going to come to an end. 0:34:45.390 --> 0:34:49.270 So let me make this again in common parlance. So 0:34:49.270 --> 0:34:51.670 the United States Supreme Court basically lays out the framework 0:34:51.670 --> 0:34:54.509 and says, hey, it's constitutional. Now Congress can put some 0:34:54.510 --> 0:34:56.390 meat on those bones by saying, we're going to put 0:34:56.390 --> 0:35:01.270 in place legislative language that allows at the federal level anyway, 0:35:01.310 --> 0:35:04.390 some kinds of requirements for age verification. And we're also 0:35:04.390 --> 0:35:06.899 at the same time, because of the Supreme Court able 0:35:06.900 --> 0:35:09.060 to protect those 20 states that already have those laws. 0:35:09.060 --> 0:35:09.740 So it's huge. 0:35:09.780 --> 0:35:13.940 Yeah. Yeah. And this context happens to be porn, but 0:35:13.980 --> 0:35:18.180 that there can be a wide variety of harms to children. 0:35:18.420 --> 0:35:22.140 And there are on the internet and social media. And 0:35:22.180 --> 0:35:25.140 if the Congress now wants to take a look at this, 0:35:25.140 --> 0:35:28.420 with this new legal framework that the Supreme Court has given, 0:35:28.660 --> 0:35:32.900 is given a template for how it would look at 0:35:32.900 --> 0:35:37.020 some federal legislation to further protect children in terms of 0:35:37.020 --> 0:35:41.100 online harms. And I think there's some folks right now 0:35:41.100 --> 0:35:43.980 in Congress probably making sure they got ink in their 0:35:43.980 --> 0:35:48.700 pens to start working on that from a federal standpoint. 0:35:48.860 --> 0:35:51.700 And it's got the porn industry hopping mad. And I 0:35:51.700 --> 0:35:52.739 couldn't be happier. 0:35:54.739 --> 0:35:55.940 Your bias is showing. 0:35:56.300 --> 0:35:57.820 Yes. And may it ever be showing. 0:35:57.860 --> 0:35:59.580 Yeah. This man I have to tell you, this was 0:35:59.580 --> 0:36:00.420 never a free. 0:36:00.739 --> 0:36:01.899 It's it's a joke. 0:36:01.900 --> 0:36:05.770 Isn't it ironic that the Free Speech Coalition, which was 0:36:05.770 --> 0:36:09.370 a lobbying arm for the porn industry, was arguing it's 0:36:09.370 --> 0:36:12.210 a free speech issue. It is none of the free 0:36:12.250 --> 0:36:15.530 speech issues that the Supreme Court has looked at before, because, 0:36:15.570 --> 0:36:18.170 quite frankly, it was not a burden on free speech. 0:36:18.170 --> 0:36:20.529 It was a burden on the porn industry. And that 0:36:20.530 --> 0:36:21.250 doesn't count. 0:36:21.290 --> 0:36:25.250 Yeah, that's exactly right. Again, multi-billion dollar industry. You know, 0:36:25.250 --> 0:36:27.650 there is a comparison, is there not between Mahmud, the 0:36:27.650 --> 0:36:29.410 first case we talked about and this one, the Free 0:36:29.410 --> 0:36:32.250 Speech Coalition, Vpax. And at the center of both of 0:36:32.250 --> 0:36:36.170 these are our kids, our families. Satan hates the family 0:36:36.170 --> 0:36:39.330 first institution, God's grace and a place of perfection. No 0:36:39.330 --> 0:36:42.049 wonder they're under assault. So you know what? Here's that 0:36:42.050 --> 0:36:45.330 sound of that trumpet Nehemiah warned us about. Fight for 0:36:45.610 --> 0:36:48.530 your families today. You got a couple of great victories 0:36:48.530 --> 0:37:06.670 back after this. So we're going to talk about, yet again, 0:37:06.670 --> 0:37:09.270 another case, because this really is about something more than 0:37:09.270 --> 0:37:11.589 the way it'll be spin in the evening news. And 0:37:11.630 --> 0:37:13.790 of course it's going to be spun, because anytime Donald 0:37:13.790 --> 0:37:15.350 Trump is in the middle of a news story, it 0:37:15.350 --> 0:37:18.150 gets spun. So let me turn to another alphabet soup 0:37:18.190 --> 0:37:22.350 outlet and let you hear their summation of this landmark decision. 0:37:22.350 --> 0:37:23.270 Have a listen. 0:37:23.270 --> 0:37:26.029 In a monumental case before the Supreme Court, the justices 0:37:26.030 --> 0:37:29.549 ruling President Trump can move forward with implementing the end 0:37:29.550 --> 0:37:32.790 of birthright citizenship. The High Court today, focusing on whether 0:37:32.790 --> 0:37:36.230 district courts have the ability to issue nationwide injunctions on 0:37:36.230 --> 0:37:37.430 Trump's executive order. 0:37:37.430 --> 0:37:41.430 Thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to 0:37:41.469 --> 0:37:45.190 proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on 0:37:45.230 --> 0:37:46.830 a nationwide basis. 0:37:46.870 --> 0:37:51.149 The decision six three split along ideological lines. Justice Amy 0:37:51.150 --> 0:37:53.950 Coney Barrett, with the opinion of the court writing, universal 0:37:53.950 --> 0:37:57.350 injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given 0:37:57.350 --> 0:38:00.940 to federal courts. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing in dissent, descent. 0:38:00.980 --> 0:38:03.180 No right is safe in the new legal regime. The 0:38:03.180 --> 0:38:04.260 court creates. 0:38:04.300 --> 0:38:06.739 Birthright. That's a big one. 0:38:06.780 --> 0:38:10.060 President Trump signing the controversial executive order on day one 0:38:10.060 --> 0:38:13.820 of his second term, limiting U.S. citizenship only to children 0:38:13.820 --> 0:38:17.020 born in the U.S. to lawful permanent residents, ending a 0:38:17.060 --> 0:38:19.739 right that's been guaranteed by the Constitution for more than 0:38:19.739 --> 0:38:23.620 150 years. Federal judges in three states ruled the ban 0:38:23.620 --> 0:38:28.500 on birthright citizenship violates the Constitution's 14th amendment, issuing nationwide 0:38:28.500 --> 0:38:32.739 injunctions blocking it from going into effect. The Trump administration 0:38:32.739 --> 0:38:35.780 then making an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court during 0:38:35.780 --> 0:38:39.299 oral arguments in May. The administration argued the federal judges 0:38:39.340 --> 0:38:40.900 overreached their authority. 0:38:40.940 --> 0:38:44.020 This was only about whether the district judge could enjoin 0:38:44.020 --> 0:38:47.899 the enforcement of that nationwide. What will now see is 0:38:47.900 --> 0:38:51.180 the actual question of what the 14th amendment means, whether 0:38:51.180 --> 0:38:54.620 a president acting alone, without Congress, without an amendment to 0:38:54.660 --> 0:38:58.420 the Constitution, can change our understanding of how we've implemented 0:38:58.420 --> 0:39:00.360 that for the last 150 years. 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:02.520 And then beyond this case, this decision could have wide 0:39:02.520 --> 0:39:05.400 ranging effects on other issues. Other actions Trump is trying 0:39:05.400 --> 0:39:07.600 to press forward that have either been stopped or limited 0:39:07.600 --> 0:39:11.399 by the federal court. That includes funding freezes and mass layoffs. Liv. 0:39:11.440 --> 0:39:13.880 The Supreme Court, Perry russom channel seven Eyewitness News. 0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:16.000 Now that's their spin. There's a whole lot more to 0:39:16.040 --> 0:39:18.440 it than that. But before we kind of set the 0:39:18.440 --> 0:39:21.959 record straight here, the president did react to the decision today. 0:39:21.960 --> 0:39:23.520 Here's what he said this morning. 0:39:23.520 --> 0:39:28.640 The Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, 0:39:28.680 --> 0:39:32.560 the separation of powers and the rule of law in 0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:36.480 striking down the excessive use of nationwide injunctions to interfere 0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:40.440 with the normal functioning of the executive branch. The Supreme 0:39:40.440 --> 0:39:44.280 Court has stopped the presidency itself. That's what they've done. 0:39:44.560 --> 0:39:47.160 There are people elated all over the country. I've seen 0:39:47.200 --> 0:39:51.160 such such happiness in spirit. Sometimes you don't see that. 0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:54.120 But this case is very important. I was elected on 0:39:54.560 --> 0:39:57.680 a historic mandate, but in recent months we've seen a 0:39:57.870 --> 0:40:01.950 handful of radical left judges effectively tried to overrule the 0:40:01.950 --> 0:40:05.510 rightful powers of the president to stop the American people 0:40:05.510 --> 0:40:09.430 from getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers. 0:40:09.430 --> 0:40:13.509 And thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file 0:40:13.550 --> 0:40:16.910 to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined 0:40:16.950 --> 0:40:20.950 on a nationwide basis. And some of the cases we're 0:40:20.950 --> 0:40:26.030 talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes 0:40:26.030 --> 0:40:29.230 to the fore that was meant for the babies of slaves. 0:40:29.230 --> 0:40:31.590 It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system 0:40:31.590 --> 0:40:35.110 and come into the country on a vacation. This lets 0:40:35.110 --> 0:40:38.070 us go there and finally win that case, because hundreds 0:40:38.070 --> 0:40:41.550 of thousands of people are pouring into our country under 0:40:41.550 --> 0:40:44.390 birthright citizenship, and it wasn't meant for that reason. 0:40:45.190 --> 0:40:47.149 Now, let's pick up on the fact that why this 0:40:47.150 --> 0:40:49.950 case is significant and you may have voted for or 0:40:49.950 --> 0:40:52.870 against him. Actually, that's utterly immaterial. This is really a 0:40:52.870 --> 0:40:56.190 transcendent question about the separation of powers and whether or 0:40:56.300 --> 0:40:59.460 not if a president signs an executive order or pleads 0:40:59.460 --> 0:41:01.180 for an injunction to be put in place, whether or 0:41:01.180 --> 0:41:05.180 not a lower court judge has the right to supersede 0:41:05.380 --> 0:41:08.060 the authority of the executive branch of the government. It's 0:41:08.060 --> 0:41:10.460 a fascinating question. If you care about American civics, even 0:41:10.460 --> 0:41:13.259 if you're not interested in American jurisprudence, I think it's 0:41:13.260 --> 0:41:15.939 an important question. So again, six three, the same three 0:41:15.980 --> 0:41:17.779 dissenting on this one as the other two cases we 0:41:17.780 --> 0:41:20.900 talked about before. So Amy Coney Barrett talked about the 0:41:20.900 --> 0:41:23.980 idea of universal injunction. That's really kind of the spinal 0:41:23.980 --> 0:41:25.299 column in this whole case. What does it. 0:41:25.300 --> 0:41:32.339 Mean? Yeah. Well, let me contrast what the argument is, 0:41:32.420 --> 0:41:36.580 which is any birth from an illegal alien in the 0:41:36.580 --> 0:41:40.540 United States has birthright. Now, that's the constitutional question which 0:41:40.540 --> 0:41:44.020 the Supreme Court has not yet discussed, or at least 0:41:44.020 --> 0:41:47.500 they haven't decided yet. They had to clear, however, the 0:41:47.500 --> 0:41:55.160 issue of single judges being able to impose an injunction Nationwide. 0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:58.960 And when they took a look at that, they decided, 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:04.160 number one, based on the congressional history of how Congress 0:42:04.160 --> 0:42:07.600 has treated this, there's no indication Congress ever intended this. 0:42:07.600 --> 0:42:10.240 And by the way, Congress does have authority with regard 0:42:10.239 --> 0:42:13.920 to certain procedural aspects of the federal judiciary. There are 0:42:13.920 --> 0:42:19.240 separate branches, but Congress does have some limited ability to 0:42:19.920 --> 0:42:23.279 weigh in on procedural issues with regard to judiciary. And 0:42:23.280 --> 0:42:26.280 the Supreme Court said there's no history there. There's also 0:42:26.320 --> 0:42:31.280 really no history of good interpretation by the Supreme Court. Previously, uh, 0:42:31.440 --> 0:42:33.600 that there is such a right now, I will give 0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:39.080 you one hypothetical that might that might occur, let's say that, uh, 0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:42.239 one of the interpreters that our military used over in 0:42:42.239 --> 0:42:45.719 Afghanistan is a woman, and she happens to be pregnant, 0:42:45.719 --> 0:42:48.640 and she's an interpreter, a language interpreter. She's not an 0:42:48.640 --> 0:42:53.910 American citizen. When Afghanistan, of course, falls, and we retreat 0:42:53.910 --> 0:42:58.110 and we pull people back, including interpreters and people who 0:42:58.150 --> 0:43:01.629 have aided our military effort. We fly that woman back 0:43:01.630 --> 0:43:04.390 to the United States, not an American citizen, and that 0:43:04.390 --> 0:43:07.750 child is born. There's a good argument under the Constitution, 0:43:07.750 --> 0:43:11.910 just like the slavery issue, bringing people into the country, uh, 0:43:12.310 --> 0:43:15.910 either against their will or under those circumstances. But illegal 0:43:15.910 --> 0:43:18.790 aliens know that will now be decided, and it won't 0:43:18.790 --> 0:43:21.270 be on a single judge for the whole country. 0:43:21.469 --> 0:43:24.189 To that end, again, it was Justice Barrett who did 0:43:24.190 --> 0:43:26.750 write for the majority. And she said, in fact, this 0:43:26.750 --> 0:43:31.910 is interesting, Craig. She pointedly addressed Justice Jackson's arguments. And 0:43:31.910 --> 0:43:33.790 she said, and I quote, we will not dwell. This 0:43:33.790 --> 0:43:35.469 is in her written opinion. We will not dwell on 0:43:35.469 --> 0:43:38.870 Justice Jackson's argument, which is at odds with more than 0:43:38.870 --> 0:43:42.790 two centuries worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. 0:43:42.790 --> 0:43:48.350 We observe only this justice Jackson decries an imperial executive 0:43:48.510 --> 0:43:52.810 while embracing an imperial judiciary. What do you think of that? 0:43:52.850 --> 0:43:58.010 Yeah. Separate but equal. Okay. But not super equal. Right? Yeah. 0:43:58.050 --> 0:44:00.969 I love that language. And I love that decision. And 0:44:00.969 --> 0:44:04.090 we really came down with some blockbusters and I was 0:44:04.130 --> 0:44:06.770 you and I are rarely happy on all of those 0:44:07.050 --> 0:44:09.690 kind of cases at the end of a term. This 0:44:09.690 --> 0:44:13.410 time was remarkably positive for the American people and for 0:44:13.410 --> 0:44:14.770 upholding the Constitution. 0:44:14.810 --> 0:44:18.370 Yeah. So again, transcended issues. One parents, actually two, dealing 0:44:18.370 --> 0:44:21.850 with parents rights, whether they can opt their child out 0:44:21.890 --> 0:44:25.170 under the free exercise of religion clause, the second, protecting 0:44:25.170 --> 0:44:28.890 their children from being exposed to pornography on the internet, 0:44:28.890 --> 0:44:32.690 and the third, this idea of the separation of powers. 0:44:32.690 --> 0:44:35.569 And that's extreme. Forget who's in office. It is. That's 0:44:35.570 --> 0:44:39.250 the wonderful thing about these documents. They've long outlived anyone 0:44:39.250 --> 0:44:42.489 who's occupied the Oval Office or sits in Congress or 0:44:42.489 --> 0:44:44.850 even at the High Court. So this was important for 0:44:44.930 --> 0:44:48.049 making sure that the Constitution remains fully intact. Hope you 0:44:48.050 --> 0:44:49.569 have a great weekend. We'll see you next time on 0:44:49.570 --> 0:44:51.130 in the market with Janet Parshall.