1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Democracy under attack. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 2: The Supreme Court has in Colorado has disqualified Trump. 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: This is not a joke. From the twenty twenty four ballot. 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 2: Colorado Supreme Court ruled in a four to three opinion 5 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: that the Constitution's insurrection clause quote unquote prohibits former President 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 2: Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot for the presidency 7 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four. Now, this will be appealed to 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 2: the Supreme Court. I have no doubt that the Supreme 9 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 2: Court will overrule. But let me tell you what Colorado 10 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: is trying to do, and there's a good chance that 11 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 2: other states may do the same thing. 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: Quote. 13 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 2: The Court found, by clear and convincing evidence, the President 14 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: Trump engaged an insurrection, as those terms are used in 15 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 2: Section three of the Fourteenth Amendment. 16 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: The ruling reads the. 17 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 2: Provocating ruling particularly reverses a prior ruling from Colorado District 18 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 2: Judge Sarah Wallace, who ruled in November that Trump is 19 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 2: not an officer of the United States is defined by 20 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: the Fourteenth Amendment, and that the Amendment therefore cannot be 21 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: used to disqualify him by appearing on the Colorado primary ballot. 22 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 2: In his dissent, the Chief Justice in Colorado, Boatwright wrote, 23 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 2: quote dismissal is particularly appropriate here because the electors brought 24 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 2: their challenge without a determination from a preceding a prosecution 25 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: for an insurrection related offense with more rigorous procedures to 26 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 2: ensure adequate due process, in particularly reversing Wallace. The Court 27 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 2: all but dared the US Supreme Court to step in 28 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 2: by January the fourth of twenty twenty four saying this quote. 29 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: If review is sought. 30 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: And the Supreme Court before the state expires on January 31 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 2: January the fourth, twenty fourteen, then the state shall remain 32 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 2: in place and the Secretary will continue to be required 33 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 2: to include President Trump's name on the twenty twenty fourth 34 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 2: presidential primary ballot until the receipt of any order or 35 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 2: mandate from the Supreme Court. The ruling states, Now, the 36 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 2: Court disagreed with Trump's claims that his actions were protected 37 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 2: free speech, saying this, we consider and reject President Trump's 38 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 2: argument that his free speech on January the sixth was 39 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 2: protected by the First Amendment. The ruling reads, seemingly ignoring 40 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 2: Trump's calls for the day that day for protesters to 41 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 2: conduct themselves quote peacefully and patriotically. 42 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: He said that multiple times. 43 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 2: Now, the fact that at one point during his speech, 44 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: President Trump said this, everyone here will soon be marching 45 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: to the Capitol Building to peacefully and patriotically make your 46 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 2: voices heard does not persuade us that the district court 47 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 2: aired in finding that the first prong of the Brandenburg 48 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 2: test was met. They went on to say, and this 49 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 2: is when it gets into some legal jargon, but I 50 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 2: want you to hear what they said. 51 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: See Thompson five to ninety f. Sup. 52 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 2: Third at one thirteen Dash fourteen. This isolated reference cannot 53 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 2: insulate the President from the motion to dismiss. As a result, 54 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 2: the court determined only President Trump's speech proadly involved words 55 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: of incitement not protected by the First Amendment. Is what 56 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 2: they said in their response. Now, the Court's unilateral determination 57 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 2: that Trump engaged in insurrection comes despite Trump having never 58 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 2: been convicted of that or any other crime, or even 59 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 2: been charged in court with a crime of insurrection. He 60 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 2: was acquitted by the US Senate of charges of engaging 61 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 2: an insurrection, and continues to say, obviously there was no wrongdoing. 62 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 2: In support of its legal assertion, the Colorado Supreme Court 63 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 2: cited the US House January sixth Select Committee I'm not joking. 64 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 2: That same Stack committee that didn't play by the rules, 65 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 2: that put two Trump haters on there, one of them 66 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: Liz Cheney who's on MSNBC every single day. They said, 67 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 2: not only were they going to cite the US House 68 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 2: January sixth Select Committee, notwithstanding that Trump was acquitted by 69 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 2: the House charges in the Senate. Unsurprisingly, the all Democratic 70 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 2: porn appointed Colorado Supreme Court has ruled against President Trump, 71 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 2: supporting a Soros funded left wing group scheme to interfere 72 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 2: in an election on behalf of Crook and Joe Biden 73 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 2: by removing President Trump's name from the ballot and eliminating 74 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 2: the right of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate 75 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 2: of their choice. Democratic Party leaders are in a state 76 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 2: of paranoia over the growing dominantly President Trump as a 77 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 2: mass in the polls. They have lost FAI and the 78 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 2: failed Biden presidency and are now doing everything they can 79 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 2: to stop American voters from throwing them out of office 80 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 2: next November. The Colorado Supreme Court issued a completely flawed 81 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 2: decision tonight, and we will swiftly file an appeal to 82 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 2: the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request for 83 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 2: a stay of this deeply undemocratic decision. We have full 84 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 2: confidence that the Supreme Court will quickly rule in our 85 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 2: favor and finally put an end to these Unamerican lawsuits. 86 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 2: In another dissent, Justice Carlos Samor wrote, given the current 87 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 2: absence of federal legislation to and four section three, and 88 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 2: given that President Trump has not been charged PURSUINGT Section 89 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 2: twenty three eighty three, the District Court should have granted 90 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 2: his September the twenty ninth motion to dismiss that justice continued. 91 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 2: The court received and considered a partial congressional report, the 92 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 2: admissibility of which is not beyond reproach. I have been 93 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 2: involved in the justice system for thirty three years now, 94 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 2: and what took place here doesn't resemble anything I've seen 95 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 2: in a courtroom. The Colorado lawsuit is one of many 96 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 2: filed in states across the country citing the insurrection clause 97 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,679 Speaker 2: for booting Trump from the ballot. Liberal groups strategically filed 98 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 2: cases and jurisdictions across the country to keep Trump off 99 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 2: the ballot and what his supporters have termed lawfare. But 100 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 2: Trump has received favorable outcomes already in New Hampshire, in Minnesota, 101 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 2: in Michigan and before Tuesday ruling was overruled Colorado. Now, 102 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 2: the Supreme Court has never root ruled definitively, I should say. 103 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 2: Let me say that again, the Supreme Court has never 104 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 2: ruled definitively on the meaning of Section three of the 105 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 2: Fourteenth Amendment. Ballots for Colorado's primary, which take place March 106 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 2: the fifth of twenty twenty four, be certified by January fifth, 107 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 2: leading to the Colorado Supreme Court's deadline for the US 108 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 2: Supreme Court to act or he will be off the ballot. 109 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 2: This is an abuse of power on which we have 110 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 2: not seen, a level that we have not seen. 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Unsurprisingly, the aldemic 153 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 2: credit appointed Kylorada Supreme Court is rule against President Trump 154 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 2: supporting a Soros funded left wing group scheme to interfere 155 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 2: in an election on behalf of krook of Joe Biden 156 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 2: by removing President Trump's name from the ballot and eliminating 157 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 2: the right of Colorado voters to vote for the candidate 158 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 2: of their choice. Democratic Party leaders are in a state 159 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,520 Speaker 2: of paranoia over the growing dominant lead President Trump has 160 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: amassed in the polls. They have lost faith in the 161 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 2: Pail Biden presidency and are now doing everything they can 162 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 2: to stop the American voters from throwing them out of 163 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 2: office next November. The Kylorado Supreme Court issued a completely 164 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 2: flawed decision tonight, and we will swiftly file an appeal 165 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 2: to the United States Supreme Court and a concurrent request 166 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 2: to stay of this deeply undemocratic decision. We have full 167 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 2: confidence that the US Supreme Court will quickly rule in 168 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 2: our favor and finally put an end to these Unamerican lawsuits. 169 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 2: There is nothing in there that I don't agree, I 170 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 2: don't disagree with, Like this is spot on. 171 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: There's nothing in there. 172 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 2: Let me rephrase that there's nothing in there I don't 173 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 2: fully agree with, like one thousand percent. You have a 174 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 2: Colorado Supreme Court run by woe liberals who have decided 175 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 2: to go rogue and abuse their power. 176 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: And what they're. 177 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 2: Doing is they're encouraging election interference. They're encouraging that election 178 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 2: interference by doing this ruling, hoping that other states will 179 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 2: follow suit and do the same thing. That's the biggest 180 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 2: problem here, and it's unbelievably vile and disgusting that they 181 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 2: would be willing to do it this way, Which brings 182 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 2: me back to what Levin wrote about the Democratic Party. 183 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 1: He said this if. 184 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 2: The Democratic party, their media, and their academics cannot rewrite 185 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:02,439 Speaker 2: the Constitution by interpretation, then they argue for abolishing it 186 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 2: all together and replacing it with a more quote relevant document. 187 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 2: That's the Democrats' words, that is, a document that ensures 188 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 2: their monopoly power and destroyers are founding principles. After all, 189 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 2: how many times have they told us that the Constitution 190 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 2: was written by slaveholders, that perpetutes racism and inequity, and 191 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:24,839 Speaker 2: is illegitimate right. 192 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: They've been saying that a lot lately. You notice that 193 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: the same kind. 194 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 2: Of fraudulent approach is now before us with respect to 195 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 2: Section three of the fourteenth Amendment. He then says, here's 196 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 2: the text that these constitutional sabotage ors in the name 197 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 2: of the Constitution are desperately and cravingly insisting prevents the 198 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 2: former president Donald Trump from effectively running for a. 199 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: Second presidential term. 200 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:52,760 Speaker 2: It says this, no person shall be a senator, representative 201 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 2: in Congress, or elector of President and vice president, or 202 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 2: hold any office civil or military under the United States 203 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 2: are under any state who having previously taken an oath 204 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 2: as a member of Congress or as an officer of 205 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:10,680 Speaker 2: the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, 206 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 2: or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, 207 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 2: to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have 208 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 2: engaged an insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given 209 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,439 Speaker 2: aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, 210 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 2: by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove 211 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:41,080 Speaker 2: such disloyalty or disability quote. Levin writes, you need not 212 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 2: be an aging, retired judge, a washed up former law professor, 213 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 2: or never trumper academia in academia to notice that the 214 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 2: word president quote unquote cannot be found in this text. 215 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:01,439 Speaker 2: So why would the amendments, drafters, adopters, and ratifiers all 216 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 2: exclude the word president from the text but include virtually 217 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,720 Speaker 2: every other form of officeholder federal and state, elected and 218 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 2: appointed in the text. 219 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: Did they forget to add the word president? 220 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 2: Or could the reason possibly be that they did not 221 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 2: want to include the word president and therefore intentionally did not. 222 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 2: Of course, there is nothing anywhere that even suggests the drafters, 223 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 2: the adopters, or ratifiers intended otherwise. It took two Levin 224 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 2: Wright's never Trumper law professors, members of the Federalist Society 225 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 2: know less joining the Democratic Party mob over one hundred 226 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 2: and twenty five pages. They wrote to try to convince 227 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 2: us that by admitting the word president, not only did 228 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 2: the drafters, adopters, and ratifiers intend to include the president, 229 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 2: but the proper interpretation of the amendment and its construction 230 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 2: and application make it undeniable and clear. In fact, so 231 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 2: clear are these professors and their ilk that we are 232 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:12,520 Speaker 2: supposed to uh look at this and say, oh, we know, 233 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 2: we understood, or we can read the minds of the 234 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 2: intentions of the drafters, the adopters, and runifiers by, among 235 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 2: other things, the words as an officer of the United 236 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 2: States quote unquote. Thus this phrase, we are told, should 237 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 2: be read to include the word president, quote unquote. Therefore, 238 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 2: there was no need to single out by name the 239 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 2: most powerful and important governmental official in the entire country. Consequently, 240 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 2: the argument goes, of course, the president was intended to 241 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 2: be included in the amendment by general reference to quote 242 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 2: the word officer any why not question mark? After all, 243 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 2: the local South Carolina County commissioner was not specifically mentioned either. 244 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 2: This is preposterous, Levin writes, for most people, the absurdity 245 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 2: is self evident. Indeed, if they intend to include the 246 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 2: word president, or the president. 247 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: You'd think he would not only be mentioned. 248 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 2: But that he'd be at the top of the list 249 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 2: of officials included in the text. In fact, they even 250 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 2: mentioned elector of president and vice president, but not the 251 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 2: president himself. Moreover, what does the phrase shall have engaged 252 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 2: in insurrection and rebellion against the United States of America mean? 253 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 2: If you're going to bar the leading Republican candidate for 254 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 2: the presidency from even appearing on a state ballot, thereby 255 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 2: disenfranchising untold numbers of citizens who would like to vote 256 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 2: for him and potentially alter the course the outcome of 257 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 2: a presidential election, there should be some definitive way to 258 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,840 Speaker 2: know what this phrase means and who gets to make 259 00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 2: that decision. Obviously, as the Fourteenth Amendment is one of 260 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 2: these so called Civil War amendments, we know what was 261 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 2: meant when the amendment was ratified, engaging an insurrection or 262 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 2: rebellion on behalf of the Confederacy and against the Union 263 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 2: aka the Civil War. It wasn't very difficult to figure 264 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,919 Speaker 2: out who did or who or did not engage in 265 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 2: such activities or what was meant by insurrection or rebellion. 266 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 2: They didn't need law professors or members of the Democratic 267 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,160 Speaker 2: Party the party of the Confederacy to tell them either. 268 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 2: But did the drafters adopters and ratifiers in ten section 269 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 2: three to apply beyond the death of the last Confederate 270 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 2: question mark? Of course, there's no evidence that it did, 271 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:48,159 Speaker 2: other than the wishful meanderings and self serving declarations of 272 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 2: the proponents. Strangely, however, if that was the true intention 273 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 2: and purpose, the amendment doesn't provide any guidance on how 274 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 2: these decisions would be presented and resolved in the case 275 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 2: of a presidential candidate or president. I say strangely because 276 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 2: the Constitutional Convention the framers spent a great deal of 277 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 2: time debating and working through the way we elect presidents. 278 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 2: They came up with the electoral college system. It didn't 279 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 2: take long until it was evident that even that process 280 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 2: needed some adjustments, hence the twelfth Amendment to the Constitution. 281 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 2: If in eighteen sixty eight the Drafters Adopters and Ratifiers 282 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:32,119 Speaker 2: the fourteen Amendment intended it not only to apply to 283 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 2: a presidential candidate or president, but knew it could upset 284 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 2: the presidential election process, why did they say absolutely nothing 285 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 2: about it? For example, how is it determined whether a 286 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 2: presidential candidate or president engaged in an insurrection or rebellion 287 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 2: against the United States when he has not been charged with, 288 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 2: let alone convicted of such offense. Levin writes, you won't 289 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 2: find the answer and amendment that would seem to be 290 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 2: an essential question in need of a defentive answer. Did 291 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 2: the men behind section three in ten that a presidential 292 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 2: can be barred from a state ballot based merely on 293 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 2: accusations and accusations from whom the media, the Democratic Party, officials, operatives, litigators, 294 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 2: those in academia, never trumpers. In fact, the second impeachment 295 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 2: trial against Trump fell well short of the number of 296 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,600 Speaker 2: senators need to convict him for the events of January 297 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 2: the sixth. As a result, he was not barred under 298 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 2: Article one, Section three of the Constitution from holding and 299 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 2: enjoying any office of honor, trust, or profit under the 300 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:48,760 Speaker 2: United States, quote unquote. If anything, there was a constitutional 301 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 2: adjudication in Trump's favor. Indeed, on January the fourth, forty 302 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 2: eight hours before the so called January sixth insurrection, President 303 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 2: Trump offered to call up ten thousand National Guardenmen to 304 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 2: protect the Capitol Building in Congress during the official electoral 305 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:12,399 Speaker 2: College count the Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the DC 306 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:18,679 Speaker 2: Democratic mayor refused the offer. These facts are intentionally ignored 307 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 2: by the Biden regime Special Council, as they were by 308 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. So the so called January sixth Committee 309 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,000 Speaker 2: and the insurrection that took place admitted the fact that Trump, 310 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 2: on January the fourth, forty eight hours before the so 311 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 2: called insurrection, offered ten thousand National guardsmen to protect the 312 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:38,920 Speaker 2: Capitol Building. 313 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 1: Why do they ignore it? 314 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 2: They ignored it because the President clearly is not engaged 315 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 2: in an insurrection or rebellion when he offers thousands of 316 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 2: armed troops to do precisely the opposite. Moreover, does any 317 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 2: serious scholar believe that the post Civil War Congress was 318 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 2: so commit it to preserving federalism that it would have 319 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 2: written an amendment given a single state the power to 320 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 2: up in a federal presidential election. Would that Congress have 321 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 2: believed when it was drafting and adopting Section three that 322 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 2: it was granting power to a state official, say a 323 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 2: Secretary of State or attorney general, to unilaterally bar a 324 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:29,879 Speaker 2: leading presidential candidate from the state's ballot, thereby possibly affecting 325 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 2: the outcome of a national election, or for that matter, 326 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 2: even a state legislature. 327 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:36,439 Speaker 1: No way. 328 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:42,159 Speaker 2: Indeed, the post Civil War congresses were mostly hostile to states' rights. 329 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 2: Several Southern states remained occupied militarily in their territories until 330 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 2: they capitulated to the demands of the federal government. 331 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:53,200 Speaker 1: So what does this mean? 332 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 2: I want to go back to what Mark Levin wrote 333 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 2: about this and what the Constitution actually says, what the 334 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 2: Fourteenth Amendment actually says. 335 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 1: He says quote. 336 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 2: Putting aside all the issues raised previously, one can only 337 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 2: imagine the Pandora's box this would open. It was not 338 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 2: opened by the drafters, adopters, and rightifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment. 339 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 2: It is being opened by modern day sabatiers of the Constitution. 340 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,199 Speaker 2: This entire movement is a vile assault on the electoral 341 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 2: process directed at a single individual, Donald Trump. There is 342 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:36,119 Speaker 2: absolutely no constitutional basis for it. However, if it somehow succeeds, 343 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 2: the implications will live far beyond today. We are left 344 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 2: not with the rule of law, but the rule of men, 345 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 2: and in this case, the rule of Democratic Party officials 346 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 2: and operatives and their academic allies. The Party of the 347 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 2: Confederacy once again seeks to nullify the federal constitution and 348 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 2: the nation's electoral system, disenfranchising tens of millions of voters nationwide, 349 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 2: and push the country towards its breaking point from which 350 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 2: we may never recover. Levin also says this, It's worth 351 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 2: remembering that the Democratic Party and its surrogates are a powerful, 352 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 2: hungry lot. They are also driving other dangerously illegitimate and 353 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 2: self serving attacks on our voting system. How many times 354 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 2: have we heard from Democratic politicians, academics, media, and activists 355 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 2: that the electoral college should be abolished, that it is 356 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,400 Speaker 2: a racist system set up by white slaveholders to perpetute racism, etc. 357 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,919 Speaker 2: Of course, this is another anti American line. The purpose 358 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,480 Speaker 2: of electoral college is, among others, to ensure that all 359 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,879 Speaker 2: parts of the country have a say in the election 360 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 2: of a president and vice president, not just the most 361 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 2: populous areas, and to prevent mob role by way of 362 00:23:55,760 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 2: unchecked majoritarianism. Thus, the electoral College is an institutional block 363 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 2: on the Democratic Party's efforts to monopolize our voting system. 364 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 2: Since the most well popular, densally populated areas of the 365 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 2: nation are run by you guessed it, democrats, the Democratic 366 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 2: Party is behind another unconstitutional scheme that seeks to disenfranchise 367 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 2: tens of millions of Americans, specifically Republican voters, so they 368 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 2: called national Popular movement. They call it the National Popular 369 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 2: Vote Movement. It involves an interstate compact in which states agree, 370 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 2: in advance of actual voting to assign their electoral College 371 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 2: votes to the candidate who nationally receives the largest number 372 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 2: of popular votes, even if that candidate loses the popular 373 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 2: vote in their own state. This new movement, the National 374 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 2: Popular Vote Movement, is only triggered once enough states reached 375 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 2: the two to seventy majority under the electoral college system. 376 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 2: So far, the states that have joined the compact hold 377 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety six electoral votes. 378 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,400 Speaker 1: They're getting close, markle Van warns. 379 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 2: He says the Democratic Party is also relentlessly attempting to 380 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:20,120 Speaker 2: nationalize state voting systems to empower itself and destroy any 381 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 2: meaningful opposition from the Republican Party. The Democratic Party dressed 382 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 2: up this tyranny as a civil rights effort, was introduced 383 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 2: in the House by Nancy Pelosi's HR one, the first 384 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,360 Speaker 2: bill to be considered by the new Democratic majority when 385 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 2: she was in charge again. It would have effectively eliminated 386 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 2: state voter ID laws make it virtually impossible to clean 387 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 2: up voter registration lists, instituting online registration throughout the country, 388 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 2: virtually eliminating protections against absentee ballot fraud, provided for taxpayer 389 00:25:54,560 --> 00:26:01,240 Speaker 2: funding for congressional candidates, attack political speech by individuals and groups. 390 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 2: They call it democratic centralization. This is the party and 391 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 2: these are the people which cover from some odd thinking 392 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 2: professors who are organizing around a twisted fiction for banning 393 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 2: Trump from the ballot and disenfranchising his would be voters 394 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 2: in advance of an election. God bless Mark Levin for 395 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 2: writing this article. 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