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Trump Losing Ballot Space - December 28th, Hour 3
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By the way, I was just thinking about this Logan.
We listened to that great music in the beginning by our friend John Rich.
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And then the bumper music that's played during the broadcast is by one of my favorite bands.
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Folks, I want to start this uh hour here with this breaking news from Jen Jenna Griswold.
She is the Secretary of State.
This is why you don't want this is why you want to be hoping we win and praying that we win at the Supreme Court, which I believe we will.
This is what she just tweeted out in the last, you know, four or five hours after we filed at the Colorado case to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and was disqualified under the Constitution from the Colorado ballot.
The Colorado Supreme Court got it right.
This decision is now being appealed.
I urge the U.S. Supreme Court to act quickly, given the upcoming presidential primary election.
So let me break this down for you.
Donald Trump engaged in insurrection.
Gee, there was a U.S. attorney investigating all matters surrounding January 6th.
Then Americ Gartland, the Attorney General of the United States, decided he would appoint a special counsel, Jack Smith, who then investigated for a year and a half.
They brought multiple indictments in multiple jurisdictions.
And here's the bottom line.
Ask me how many charges of insurrection have been filed against Donald Trump.
Zero.
Ask me how many times Donald Trump has been convicted of a charge he never faced.
Zero.
They had Opportunities to amend their indictments, supersede their indictments, and they didn't do it.
So then this Secretary of State thinks she can label somebody an insurrectionist here to get them disqualified.
To take your vote away.
And that's what you got to understand here.
We're talking about, you know, this is Donald Trump off the ballot.
But you know what this really is?
Your vote being eliminated.
If if Colorado gets their way.
Absolutely.
With 15 other states following suit or trying to.
Absolutely.
The courts have been good on those.
And like you said, it's on the basis of one person, Jenna Griswold.
Jenna has decided that Donald Trump has engaged in insurrection, and it's her decision that keeps us from being able to vote and keeps the Colorado GOP from being able to nominate him and get him on the ballot.
It's her decision that makes that so.
Except for one thing.
We filed at the Supreme Court of the United States yesterday.
And today, the plaintiffs in the case responded and saying, you know what?
We agree with the Colorado Republican State Central Committee.
That's the Republican GOP that the American Center for Law and Justice, my organization, our organization represents.
The case needs to be expedited at the Supreme Court of the United States.
So they know that.
So they agreed with that.
Now they're going to disagree with the law, but they agree it's got to be expedited quickly.
And just found out that they print the military ballots like in days that go out to the military.
So I, you know, if I was the Supreme Court, this is what I would do.
I would take these briefs, I would tell everybody to get their merits brief in, like, you know, in four days.
I've done it before.
And I would just decide the case, you know, I don't even know if argument's necessary.
I think just decide the case.
I hope Logan, the American people understand what is at stake here.
We have been successful in the other 14 cases so far.
All those are being appealed, though.
But this one in Colorado went rogue.
That will allow that's why California's looking at it now, Maine.
The list goes.
We will be in over 20 states by the my prediction is by the first week of January.
Yeah, I think people do need to understand the ramifications of this.
And I'm sure if you're listening to this largely, you're probably someone who supports President Trump or supports Republicans and conservatives.
But the implication on your kids and the contribution on your grandkids, the future of of really the way we vote just changes so dramatically if this is able to go through.
And I think a lot of people laughed it off at first.
And when you say that every other court has thrown it out, maybe they give them a reason to laugh at it.
But then when it actually comes down to it, this is added to the United States Supreme Court.
At the United States Supreme Court.
This is wild.
Yeah, you know what's interesting?
Will Haynes uh just pointed this out to me?
He said this.
He said, you know, originally, and this way this lawsuit was structured, and this is true.
She was the defendant.
Jenna Griswold was the defendant.
We had to intervene in the lawsuit, which she opposed, by the way, and we still got in, we won.
And President Trump had to intervene in the lawsuit.
If not, this was a this was home cooking.
This was crew, this organization, suing a friendly Secretary of State to remove the guy off the ballot with nobody involved that was really going to put up a defense.
That's what was at stake until we got involved in this.
And that's why you, concerned Americans, need to understand what's at stake in this.
And this is one case.
Now we just won in West Virginia.
They're appealing that to the Fourth Circuit.
Michigan just said, you know, no, we're gonna let them stay on the ballot.
And I think there's 15 other 14 or 15 other states involved right now.
And it will grow.
But we've got to kind of nip it in the bud, and we've done that by taking it on an emergency basis to the Supreme Court, and that's where it is right now.
Absolutely.
And like you said, the other states, there's pending cases in Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
So Oregon's been added to it, and so has West Virginia.
This is not just Colorado.
This is not just one state.
Like you said, it's gonna be 20 states, it's gonna be 20 plus states.
We have to make sure that we maintain the right to vote for the candidate of our choice.
I said this earlier, I'm gonna say it again.
You know, at the American Center for Law and Justice, we fight for religious liberty.
I mean, those kids that want to have Bible studies in their classroom, it was the ACLJ that was there to defend their right to have Bible studies.
Individuals that want freedom of speech and right to demonstrate and protest, we defend those rights.
None of it will matter.
Zero.
If you don't have the right to vote.
So when you ask me what's the somebody asked me the other day, what's the important most important case the American Center for Law and Justice ever took to the Supreme Court?
And we've been involved in.
I counted the other day, not just arguments here, but cases we've been involved in where we've had merits decisions, and it's 24.
And it's hard to say which case is more important than that case, but I'll tell you which case is the most important case.
This one.
Because if you lose the right, this is not my first rodeo with election cases.
Remember the McCain Feingold bipartisan campaign finance reform?
I argued that on an emergency basis at the Supreme Court of the United States where they're trying to tell minors, kids under 18, you can't even participate in a political campaign.
It violates federal election law.
We only won that nine to zero.
But that was on an emergency basis.
In that case, the Supreme Court was on break, came back in September, which they do not like to do when they take their end of June break till October and had to come back for the argument.
This case that we filed, Logan, now, so people understand I'm I'm holding in my hand.
You could hear it right here.
The motion to expedite consideration.
So we we've asked the Supreme Court to move quickly, and now the the respondents, which is this organization crew, they have agreed that it needs to move quickly as well.
Yeah, and that's uh what we do here at the ACLJ, always on the front lines here, working as fast as we can to get all of this taken care of.
So in that regard, let me explain what happened to us over the last five days.
So we get the decision from the Colorado Court, and the Colorado Court says if you file by January 4th, we he'll be able to stay on the ballot as long as it's pending at the Supreme Court.
Now, if the Supreme Court denied it, of course he wouldn't be.
So we have this case now at the Supreme Court in the United States, we're getting it ready to go to the Supreme Court in the United States, and it is literally the Thursday before Christmas weekend, or I think it may have been Wednesday.
And I said, Look, folks, this was last week.
I said, we got to get this thing.
Do not wait till January 4th.
Too many things can happen in cases like this.
Intervening incidents, other cases.
I said, this one's primed to go to the Supreme Court of the United States.
I want to file by midweek.
That was this week.
So right through the holidays, our team was working.
And I mean, I need to tell you something.
Our team at the American Center for Law and Justice, world class.
Great lawyers.
The senior lawyers are great, the young associates are great.
A great team effort here.
And the end result of that team effort was yesterday.
We filed before the Supreme Court of the United States.
We filed it late in the day.
Then you e-file it, then they give you a hard copy.
You got to serve the hard copy.
That was today.
We got a case number, 23696.
Within hours of that docket being filed.
I'm talking about within hours.
The other side came up and said, you know what, we agree that we disagree with what the law is, but we agree it's got to be heard quickly.
So we've got an expedited case at the Supreme Court in the United States that we put together through the Christmas uh holiday.
And here we are in between Christmas and New Year's, and the other side saying, hey, we want briefs in January 2nd and oral argument, I think January 19th.
Yeah, and it was because of the ACA ACLJ's appeal that then the Colorado Secretary of State announces that she has to include Trump on the primary ballot for the January 5th certification because of our filing.
Yes, so this is an important point.
I'm glad you mentioned that, Cece, and that is this.
Once we filed, even though she's already said he should be off the ballot, we don't want him on the ballot, but once we filed, she had no choice.
He had the right to be on the ballot under their own rules and guidance.
So we filed, and as soon as we filed, she came out and said a couple hours ago, he's on the ballot, even though I wish he wasn't.
But you also should be telling everybody that's listening to us how dangerous this is letting these Secretary of States or Board of Election Supervisors, Logan, decide this stuff.
It is dangerous for the country.
Yeah, I think that people need to understand the ratifications of a lot of these judges and what they can actually do and what they can't do.
When you have the when they think that this is what they can do, is worth sort of the concern.
I think you think about it, yeah.
You felt that way in a lot of these situations, not just this specific case.
But remember, they think they can do this.
They think they have the right to do this in the law.
That even if you're unelected, you could come in and start throwing people off ballots.
And look, we just have you know, somewhat in the last hour, uh, we've had a petition now in Wisconsin, the election commission, seeking to bar also President Trump from the ballot.
I just got that sent uh from our producer here.
So I mean, this is now happening.
Then it was you know put in by an owner of a brewery uh who filed the petition.
This is because anybody could do this.
Under the Colorados theory, you know, you mean Cece could decide, you know, we don't want Joe Biden to be on the ballot and Tennessee Let's file a motion to get him off because we've got a problem with uh sex trafficking in Tennessee and and drug fentanyl stuff.
You can't do that, folks.
The parties put up the candidates.
That's the way our electoral system works.
Now they are a brewery specifically known for being a progressive brewery.
What does that mean?
Could you look at it?
It's like imagine every sort of trope that you could throw.
I mean, they have an AOC IPA.
So you can you know.
You want to explain that to me because I'm not gonna do that.
It's like craft beer is an IPA, but that's a fun uh an AOC one like for Alexander Clay.
Yes, all of their collections are uh So a progressive brewery, they have a pro choice wine.
Like this and it goes to choice wine.
So this is yeah, it's yeah, it's uh it's a business decision.
Because I wondered when it when you told me a brewery, I'm like, I don't feel like that's good for business.
And then I looked it up, I go, oh no, it's right on.
Yeah, it's right.
It's right on Brain.
Right on Brain.
Yeah.
So I mean, I got I guess I got a lot to learn on that front.
But what I don't have time to learn because it's moving at rocket speed is the Supreme Court of the United States.
By the way, I'm gonna say this, and this is gonna make me sound old, and it's true.
I've argued cases in the eighties, nineties, two thousands, two thousand and tens, two thousand and twenties.
It's true that you did that, or it's true that you are old.
It's true that I did that in both.
Experience, I will say.
How about this?
Experience.
You said I looked younger than the guy we saw on TV today.
Yeah, well, you're like, this guy's younger than me.
And I was like, well, I mean, that's yeah, it it's you did.
I'll give you a compliment then.
Now I take it back.
You're taking it back.
The old saying I have experience with this.
Look, I said this is not my first time at an emergency hearing on an election law issue at the Supreme Court of the United States.
I will say this, the ramifications of this one are bigger because they are gargantuan.
It's literally our right to vote.
Here's what I'd like you to do.
And I'm gonna thank uh Sean and Linda, the whole team, and we'll talk more about the other folks that have helped us put this broadcast together today.
But let me let me say this.
Your support of the ACLJ from the Hannity audience has been unbelievable.
Over this last year, as Sean's allowed us to come in and and and guest host the program, and we asked you to support the ACLJ.
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Hey, welcome back to Hannity, everybody.
I'm I'm trying to.
This is J. Secular, Logan Secular, C C High World from the American Center for Law and Justice, and what a huge blessing it is for us to be able to host uh for Sean while he's uh taking a deserved break or two.
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I do want to say this.
Um we've talked a lot about the Supreme Court and what's going on.
We talked about what's happening in the Middle East.
This is just the tip of the iceberg, folks, of I think what's coming over the next couple of weeks.
I I really think that these cases are gonna now.
If the Supreme Court acts quickly, they could nip this in the bud.
This idea of Colorado taking off Trump and this state taking Trump off.
I think they could nip that in the bud.
But they gotta, you know, they gotta move really quick to do that.
And I I I believe there's a realistic chance that they do.
Having said that, I take in our work, you take nothing for granted.
Do I feel like we're gonna win to the Supreme Court?
Yes.
Do you know what I told our team today?
And this will be important for our Hannity audience to know.
This is what I told our team today.
Assume we're three justices short right now.
We've got a couple of justices, but we don't have five.
So we're three short.
So assume maybe we got a couple.
So we got to get the other three.
Now, do I think we're gonna win?
Yeah, I really do.
But I'm also cognitive of the fact that it's the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the land.
And like I said, I've had the privilege of appearing before that court since the eighties.
And we're in 2023, and here we go again.
But it's an honor, it's a privilege, but this is a fight for our right to vote.
And whether you're for Trump, against Trump, it really doesn't matter.
Because they could do this to anybody.
I mean I said if they did it in Colorado to to Trump, they could do it to Texas, could say, you know, we don't want Biden on.
We think he's derelicting his duties.
Individuals shouldn't be making those decisions.
That's the job.
If Congress wanted to make a move like that, that's what the 14th Amendment says.
They can make that move.
And they did try the guy.
Trump was tried for insurrection.
Here was the problem with the Colorado case.
He was acquitted before the United States Senate.
So you can't start making up rules as you go along, which is exactly what's happening here.
Don't let it happen in a constitutional republic.
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It's almost a dirty word.
One that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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Hey everybody, welcome back to Hannity, Jay Seculo, Logan Secular, CC Heil, all of the American Center for Law and Justice.
It's been our privilege and continues to be to be able to guest host from time to time on Hannity Radio, and we really appreciate doing that.
We've covered a lot of territory today.
So I think number one is kind of I need to reset the stage of what what's kind of going on.
Sure, as we start to you know wind down a little bit.
A lot of people are trying to figure out by the end of their day plans, what we can do, we need to make sure that they know about the work that we're doing here, and uh that it's certainly not going to stop.
No, so you know, we had Jeff Balabon on from our office in Jerusalem because at the American Center for Law and Justice, we have an ACLJ office in Jerusalem, and that office, in conjunction with our European office, and then what CeCe does at the United Nations is involved heavily in what's going on in the Middle East right now, including folks, and this is what you need to understand.
You got hostile entities.
The ICC, the International Criminal Court, the UN itself, the Human Rights Council.
But you know what happens?
We go there at the American Center for Law and Justice.
So on the Israel situation that is in the news also right now, we are front and center in that.
We represent families, but we're also putting the ICC already on notice.
Yeah, we represent 10 hostage families, um, as well as constantly supporting and standing up for Israel's right to self-defense at the United Nations, at the European Parliament, at the Council of Europe, every international body, we make sure that we are there standing up for Israel.
These are hostile entities.
I'm not I'm not saying they're not.
I mean, they're not pleasant to be there.
Okay, because you're you're in a hostile territory.
But our European office, and CC's done these, Jordan's done them, have made these interventions, oral arguments, basically, at the UN.
I've spoken at the General Assembly podium in defense of Israel a number of years ago.
Our work in Israel goes back decades.
Decades.
Back to I mean the 90s, we've been involved in even before that, uh, in defense of Israel.
And let me tell you, if you watch the news right now, what's going on?
You had the biggest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
And that's what people need to remember about October 7th.
And what's happening now is this world opinion changes, and they're trying to get Israel not to defend itself.
What we're doing at the ACLJ and our European Center for Law and Justice is reminding the world through these international institutions that under the law of armed conflict, we have military law experts at the ACLJ.
Israel has the right to defend itself.
Yeah, we're absolutely able to put forth the facts and the law and show that Israel is in the right, and they do have the right to defend themselves under the law of armed conflict, under all the international rules and regulations.
They are in the right.
And we we call for the condemnation of Hamas and their attack, their horrific, barbaric attack on Israel.
Israel has to listen, there's no option here.
Israel has to eliminate Hamas.
And when I say eliminate, I don't mean you know a ceasefire in a week, and we, you know, we work it out and things are quiet.
You've got to eliminate Hamas.
By the way, when you do that, you're setting free the Gazans, the people in Gaza who are living under this totalitarian regime.
But you've got to eliminate Hamas.
And I mean eliminate, I mean militarily eliminate the threat.
That can never happen again.
The phrase after the Holocaust was never again.
And the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said, never again happened on October 7th.
Now that was a failure of a lot of intelligence and a lot of things, and I don't want to cast blame right now.
That has to be looked at, by the way, when this is over with.
But the first priority is to eliminate Hamas as a threat.
And then while you're doing that, get rid of the Ayatollahs in Iran.
We were at a conference, uh, a meeting just a week and a half ago, and it was very interesting to listen to the foreign attache from Israel as we were at dinner talking or lunch.
And he said, in a couple of weeks, this was very interesting, very telling.
He said, in a couple weeks, let me tell you what they're not gonna, you're not gonna be talking about as much on the news.
You're not gonna be talking so much about Gaza.
But the United States, this was what he was telling us.
Better watch it with these hooti rebels, which by the way, it's 150,000 troops.
So these aren't like, you know, hiding in caves.
This is a military.
Over a hundred attacks on the United States so far.
Nine states installation, including injuring our military, attacking our naval ships.
And he said in weeks, that is going to escalate, and it already is.
Absolutely.
Iran is a problem, and we need to address that.
And Israel is fighting the battle really on our behalf.
All the Western world, they're fighting a battle for freedom and liberty and justice because Iran is the funder of terrorism, and they are attacking Israel right now.
But guess what?
They're also attacking the United States, and we need to stand up against terrorism.
You know, they're the the Iranians are the largest exporter of terrorism in the world.
Nobody, Logan, does more terrorism funding than the Iranian regime.
Why is that?
I guess people don't know.
Maybe we don't have a background on that card.
So you had the Iranian revolution in 1979.
That lays at the feet of Jimmy Carter.
Okay, because of his policies.
So the Ayatollah came back.
They removed the Shah of Iran, who was a pro-Western ally of the United States, and you ended up with this is radical Islamic regime.
That as they grew in remember, they captured all those American hostages for hours, for days, then it became weeks, then it became months, and it was almost a year.
And the moment Ronald Reagan was elected to office, they let them all go because they knew Reagan was going to take action.
Carter did nothing.
That regime has grown more powerful.
And then in 2009 and 2001 when you had the Arab Spring, that was the moment when the Iranian people, the young people said we want freedom.
Because their parents remembered freedom.
I mean, I had classmates in high school that came to the United States during that.
Yeah, a lot of I think a lot of people know at least families.
If you know families from the region.
Exactly.
This is why they came over.
The Shah of Iran's son is still deemed the ruler in exile.
He was on uh on Fox News the other day, did it.
It was he was fantastic.
But he said the Ayatollahs have to go.
If they do not go, you're gonna end up with more of this.
So the United States has to take out the Houthis, and then and by the way, the British have put troops um naval vessels there.
Denmark has put naval vessels there.
People are taking this seriously.
But we've got these are threats that have to be eliminated.
And the Qataris, where we have a U.S. base, allowed Hamas to operate.
And you gotta ask yourself this question.
And the idea was, well, we'll allow them to operate, but at least we can keep an eye on them, which obviously did not work.
So the trust level is zero right now globally.
And that's when you said earlier, Logan, the world feels like it's on fire.
It does because this leadership coming out of this administration is not only lackluster, you know, people don't like to say it, but I'll say it, it's wrong.
The policies are wrong.
The handling the Middle East, wrong.
It's like they don't understand, you know, when you're dealing with the Middle East, you gotta play nine-dimensional chess.
I mean, this is you know, this is Sun Tzu the art of war.
I mean, that that's what you're dealing with.
You know, the the friend of my the enemy of my friend is my friend.
I mean, this is this kind of stuff.
You have to understand the alliances are not what we typically would understand in the West.
But let me tell you what we should understand.
When a group like Hamas decides it's gonna kill Jews because they're Jews.
This isn't this, oh, you know, I'm not anti-Semitic, I'm just I don't like the Zionist regime.
When they say from the You know, the river to the sea, that's called the eliminating the Jewish state.
So at the ACLJ, we are front and center in that fight as it relates on the international.
We are involved in it.
We have an office in Jerusalem.
So when you support the work of the ACLJ at ACLJ.org, understand, none of these families, no one's paying us to do this.
We're able to do this because of our donors.
We don't charge anybody legal fees.
That's just not the way it works at the ACLJ.
So I encourage you to support the work of the ACLJ at ACLJ.org.
So that's like kind of number one on the international front.
Okay.
Number one.
So then we gotta move on and go, okay.
Domestic so domestically.
Um look, I I don't think that there's that big of a gap.
I think that you can find more of a gap in us dealing with the situation In Russia and Ukraine and how that was how that kind of got a little blurry and a lot of a little hazy after a few months and specifically after now years.
But Israel is so intrinsically part of our DNA and part of America's DNA.
Yeah, that it does feel different.
I don't like that they they link the two.
The Democrats are doing this.
They're linking Russia-Ukraine with Israel.
And that's a mistake for Israel.
It's a mistake for Ukraine, too.
Ukraine's having a problem right now.
They've had, and I'm not shocked on this.
I handled the first impeachment of the former president.
It was about Ukraine.
There's been a huge corruption scandal that has broke within the military of Ukraine.
In fact, I'm not wrong on this.
I think that most recently a general got terminated because of all the bribery that was going on and buying ammunition from money coming from the United States.
That's very different than the situation in Israel.
You're fighting, I mean, they're both listen, I'm not saying what Russia did to Ukraine's right.
It's wrong.
And we should we should defend Ukraine.
But we got to have accountability.
But what happened in Israel is at a level of terrorism we have not seen since the Holocaust.
But again, point is ACLJ front and center.
Then let's go to the domestic front.
Okay, so you start with the obvious, and that is they're taking away your right to vote.
Oh, no big deal.
A huge deal.
Because all these liberties we enjoy don't mean anything.
If a Secretary of State, where is her little uh do we have her tweet?
Here it is.
Of Colorado said, This is by the way, this came after we filed at the Supreme Court of the United States to stop Colorado from removing Trump from the ballot.
This is what she writes, though.
Okay, she writes, Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and was disqualified under the Constitution from the Colorado ballot.
The Colorado Supreme Court got it right.
This decision is now being appealed.
I urge the Supreme Court to act quickly, given the upcoming presidential primary election.
She also has said that because we filed, she has to keep him on the ballot.
But let me break this down again.
Engaged in insurrection.
Well, never charged with insurrection, never convicted of insurrection.
The only charge of insurrection that was not in a judicial context, but in a political context, was an impeachment, upon which Donald Trump was acquitted.
Acquitted of insurrection.
Whatever that even means under legal theory now.
That's number one.
Number two, the Colorado Supreme Court got it right.
Well, I understand why she wants to say that, but actually, every other court in the country, and there's been you know a half dozen already that have issued rulings, have said the Colorado Supreme Court got it wrong.
Got it wrong.
They did, because they are using this 14th Amendment and they're skewing it.
Oh, yeah.
First of all, the president, and we made this argument in our appeal, the president is not an officer.
So it doesn't even apply.
That's right.
It doesn't apply to him right off the bat.
And again, you said it.
They're talking about Trump has engaged in insurrection, says who?
Not a court.
He's not been tried, he's not been convicted.
Not one per you cannot have a Secretary of State make that decision on her own.
So you've got that obviously this case is gigantic.
We know we're the group that took it to the American Center for Law and Justice.
We're representing the Colorado uh GOP and it filed that case at the Supreme Court of the United States.
And then you've got the other case that's going on right now, which is this executive immunity.
We're filing an amigos brief in that.
The idea that the a pr sitting president while he was president could be sued civilly or criminally for acts they took as president.
It's totally undercuts the Constitution.
So, you know, if you care about the constitutional republic, let me encourage you to do something.
Support the work of the American Center for Law and Justice.
Let me tell you why.
Whether it's in the Middle East, whether it's around the globe, at the United Nations, in the Supreme Court of the United States, or a district court in Nevada, where we're defending parents that didn't want their kids to read obscenity in a classroom.
The American Center for Law and Justice is front and center, or our broadcast secular, which is heard on radio stations at noon across the country.
You can go to ACLJ.org to check that out.
All of this happens because people like you, and the hen and the audience has been really generous, have supported the work of the ACLJ.
And we're in a match right now, Logan.
That's right.
That's the end of the year we want to encourage people to do it.
This has been the ACLJ's Faith and Freedom year-in drive, and we are just about wrapping it up, and we couldn't do it without your support.
We specifically couldn't do it now, because your gifts, your tax deductible gifts and support of the ACLJ is now matched times three.
We've never done this before.
We've never done this before.
That means there are other amazing donors who are out there who are ready to unlock funds.
So your match can be tripled.
That means $25 gift.
That essentially becomes $75 and so on and so on, as much as you'd like.
So go to ACLJ.org.
Again, every gift of any size helps.
If you can make it a recurring monthly gift, also you can become an ACLJ champion.
That's someone who supports us on a monthly, ongoing recurring basis.
Yeah, you know, by the way, I need to say this.
When a lot of you have become ACLJ champions, those are monthly donors.
What happens if you donate this month and then keep donating each month?
Anytime we have a match, your gift is doubled.
Normally it's not triple.
I will say this is a very unusual thing for us.
This has happened this year.
Your first one will be tripled.
Your first one will be triple this time.
It's the only time we've done it, but normally it's it's doubled.
But we appreciate it more than you know.
And then I want to encourage you also to check out Jingle Smells the movie.
Sean's in it.
He's a coexecutive producer with Logan.
You go to Jinglesmells.movie.
You can watch it on Rumble, Voodoo, which is Fandango, or you can get the DVD.
We encourage you to do that as well.
But again, if you want to support what we're doing at the American Center for Law and Justice, let me encourage you to go to ACLJ.org.
It's a great way also to check out what we're doing around the globe.
And like I said, our broadcast is at noon, Eastern time, and different times throughout the country.
We encourage you to go there as well and check out the work of the American Center for Law and Justice.
We'll be back with more Hannity in a few minutes.
Hey everybody, welcome back to Hannity J Secular here, Logan Secular, CC Howell, all of the American Center for Law and Justice.
Couple things I want to tell you.
If you enjoy that music that you're hearing as we come in and out of these breaks, that is my the band that I'm in.
I don't need to calling it my band, but it's called the J Seculoband.
We're doing a concert on New Year's Eve about 8 o'clock Eastern time.
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So ACLJ.org.
Thank you to Jason and Katie, our producer and engineer today for making all of this happen.
And again, a huge thank you to our friend Sean Hannity for allowing us to sit in for him.
And if you want to check that movie out, that Sean and Logan co-executive producer, Jinglesmells.movie, great way to enjoy the weekend coming up.
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