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| Good morning. | ||
| It's Saturday, June 28th, 2025. | ||
| The Supreme Court closed out its session yesterday with several major rulings, with the conservative supermajority delivering several key decisions supporting President Trump's agenda. | ||
| One major victory for the White House, the court's decision to limit the power of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions, a tool many lower courts have used to block the implementation of dozens of President Trump's executive orders. | ||
| This morning, we want to hear your thoughts on the court's key decisions this session. | ||
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| Now, that key decision related to nationwide injunctions was tied to a case on birthright citizenship. | ||
| Here's a story about it on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. | ||
| Justices Curb Power of the Courts. | ||
| The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday limited the authority of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions, a decision that handed President Trump a victory in his battles with the judiciary, but left uncertain the fate of his push to curtail birthright citizenship. | ||
| The 6-3 decision, written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, faulted lower courts for granting universal injunctions that blocked President Trump's policy across the U.S. | ||
| The court said that because such orders go beyond providing relief to the plaintiffs, they likely exceed the authority Congress gave to district judges. | ||
| Barrett, however, left open the possibility that Trump's birthright policy could be blocked nationwide under lawsuits brought by New Jersey and other Democratic-led states, in contrast to companion cases filed by pregnant women concerned about their future children's status. | ||
| Now, for an overview of some of the decisions that came of the decisions that came down yesterday in particular, let's look at a graphic here, the one that I just mentioned, limiting the power of federal judges to grant nationwide injunctions. | ||
| That was that birthright citizenship case. | ||
| There was also a ruling that Maryland's school policy barring opt-outs for LGBTQ books violates religious rights. | ||
| Another ruling upheld Texas's age verification law for porn sites, and another preserved Affordable Care Act coverage of preventative health care. | ||
| And another upheld the phone and internet subsidy program for underserved areas. | ||
| And finally, a ruling that sided with a death row prisoner seeking DNA testing. | ||
| Now then, related to that birthright citizenship case again, yesterday, President Trump was joined in the White House briefing room by Attorney General Pam Bondi as well as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to deliver remarks celebrating the Supreme Court's ruling on federal judges' injunctions and birthright citizenship. | ||
| Here is a portion. | ||
| This morning the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law. | ||
| In striking down the excessive use of nationwide injunctions to interfere with the normal functioning of the executive branch, the Supreme Court has stopped the presidency itself. | ||
| That's what they've done. | ||
| And really, it's been an amazing period of time, this last hour. | ||
| There are people elated all over the country. | ||
| I've seen such happiness and spirit. | ||
| Sometimes you don't see that, but this case is very important. | ||
| I was elected on a historic mandate, but in recent months we've seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president to stop the American people from getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers. | ||
| It was a grave threat to democracy, frankly, and instead of merely ruling on the immediate cases before them, these judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation. | ||
| In practice, this meant that if any one of the nearly 700 federal judges disagreed with the policy of a duly elected president of the United States, he or she could block that policy from going into effect or at least delay it for many years, tie it up in the court system. | ||
| This was a colossal abuse of power which never occurred in American history prior to recent decades, and we've been hit with more nationwide injunctions than were issued in the entire 20th century together. | ||
| Think of it, more than the entire 20th century, me. | ||
| I'm grateful to the Supreme Court for stepping in and solving this very, very big and complex problem, and they've made it very simple. | ||
| I want to thank Justice Barrett, who wrote the opinion brilliantly, as well as Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas. | ||
| Great people. | ||
| Thanks for this decision and thanks to this decision. | ||
| We can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis. | ||
| And some of the cases we're talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore. | ||
| That was meant for the babies of slaves. | ||
| It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation. | ||
| Now some response from the Democratic side. | ||
| Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, said on X, the Supreme Court's decision to limit the courts of their long-held authority to block illegal executive actions is an unprecedented and terrifying step toward authoritarianism, a grave danger to our democracy, and a predictable move from this extremist MAGA court. | ||
| By weakening the power of district courts to check the presidency, the court is not defending the Constitution, it's defacing it. | ||
| This ruling hands Donald Trump yet another green light in his crusade to Unravel the foundations of American democracy. | ||
| Now, let's go to your calls with your thoughts on the Supreme Court's decisions this session. | ||
| But before that, I want to go over a couple of other decisions, not from yesterday, but from earlier in the session. | ||
| There have been several key rulings from the Supreme Court this term, including rules against Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding, upholding regulations of ghost guns to make them more traceable, upholding the state ban on transgender minors using puberty blockers and hormone therapy, siding with a straight woman in a reverse discrimination case, as well as siding against a disabled firefighter suing for health benefits discrimination, | ||
| the source of this list from USA Today. | ||
| Now then, let's hear from Anna in South Windsor, Connecticut on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Anna. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Good morning. | ||
| And happy both to everyone. | ||
| I think the Supreme Court, we have to trust them. | ||
| We have to put our trust in them that they would do the right thing for all the people. | ||
| And speaking of all the people, Chairman Powell, Chairman Powell, you are for all the people. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| We respect you. | ||
| You are real. | ||
| You are a real. | ||
| So, Anna, you're talking about the Federal Reserve Chairman, but I wonder which of the Supreme Court rulings this term you think are most significant. | ||
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Correct, Jimmy, there in helping me. | |
| Which one? | ||
| Yes, were there particular rulings from the Supreme Court or decisions this term that you think are particularly important? | ||
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You're taking up my time. | |
| But I heard the Supreme Court, I think they did well or whatever they tried to do. | ||
| I don't know enough about those to question them. | ||
| But I think Chairman Powell will make a great president. | ||
| And he's for all the people. | ||
| I trust him. | ||
| Next, we'll hear from Junietta in Northeast Maryland on our line for Republicans. | ||
| Good morning, Junietta. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| And what are your thoughts on the Supreme Court's decisions this term? | ||
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I think it's about time. | |
| I think that they let the lower courts embarrass America as a country. | ||
| And they should have sucked in before, but I'm very grateful for their choices. | ||
| All right. | ||
| And now we'll hear from Walter in Washington, D.C. on our line for Democrats. | ||
| Good morning, Walter. | ||
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Good morning, Ms. Adams. | |
| How are you? | ||
| I'm fine, thank you. | ||
| How are you? | ||
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I'm doing great, ma'am. | |
| Doing great. | ||
| The Supreme Court did an excellent job with the ruin, especially regarding birthright citizenship, because there's a lot of confusion with that. | ||
| I'll be as quick as possible with this. | ||
| But the foundation of the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship clause is from the Civil Rights Act of 1866. | ||
| Republican Senator Lyman Trumbull is the author of that clause. | ||
| It was written to give the children of the formerly enslaved black population citizenship because the entire Democratic Party of the day refused to recognize our ancestors as citizens. | ||
| Walter, can I pause you for just a moment? | ||
| I just want to read the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution for our audience, and then I'll get right back to you. | ||
| The 14th Amendment specifically says all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. | ||
| Walter, please continue. | ||
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Yes, and with that, the birthright citizenship clause made it clear from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 that it is not for ambassadors, diplomats, Native Americans, or anyone under a foreign power. | |
| That is, foreign nationals. | ||
| All four of these groups, their allegiance is to their nations, not to the jurisdiction of the United States. | ||
| And being that Native Americans lived in Maryland and Virginia, and they couldn't get birthright citizenship, and they were in the states because they were to their tribal nations, then Congress, who wrote our immigration laws saying you can't come in illegal. | ||
| And also, black scholar Dr. Claude Anderson, said that black folk are the only non-immigrant groups where they had the right and ratify three constitutional amendments to give us citizenships, but it was not written for. | ||
| Oh hello, you're still going Walter, you're fine. | ||
| Oh oh, I'm sorry. | ||
| What is being done here is the 14th Amendment. | ||
| They were being used for everybody. | ||
| That was not the original purpose of that. | ||
| It was only for black people because we were the only group that were denied citizenship. | ||
| And it's not seems like you support the Supreme Court's decision in, in this case, on university nationwide injunctions. | ||
| Let's hear from Ken in West Sacramento California, on our line for independence. | ||
| Good morning Ken. | ||
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Hello, I can't believe you're actually listening to me in Washington DC. | |
| Are you there? | ||
| Yes, we're here. | ||
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What are your thoughts on the Supreme Court's term, on what decision we're talking about? | |
| Whichever one you like, I believe that birthright citizenship should only be legal for those of the people who are only born here legally. | ||
| I mean really. | ||
| I mean, I'm totally a stupid human being. |