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John Haller: Activist Judges Throw Wrenches At Trump Administration Policies, Progress · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Yeah, I think there are two things going on and the president is absolutely right to be
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  frustrated and concerned about the way the courts are handling this.
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  First, there's a pattern whereby these district court judges are trying to usurp the responsibility
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  of the president in the national security area.
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  The Constitution gives the president the power to make the judgments about how we deal with
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  foreign nationals when we are animated by national security concerns.
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  It's his call, not a district court judge's call.
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  The second phenomena that's occurring is even where it's appropriate for the court to
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  play its traditional rule of safeguarding the liberties of American citizens.
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  We have this phenomena of nationwide injunctions where the lowest level judge district judges
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  try to bind the entire nation and bind the president in their initial decision and that
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  is not what we have meant by the judicial power under our Constitution.
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  And it leads to a lot of instability and government and a lot of instability within the court
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  system.
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  It's something the court has to deal with.
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  The Chief Justice has to deal with the problem of nationwide injunctions.
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  Welcome to World View Matters discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
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  defending biblical Christianity, no topic off limits.
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  And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
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  So friends, obviously you heard that clip and today we're going to be talking about
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  Democrat activist judges throwing wrenches at the Trump administration policies and what
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  we would consider progress and things that he was elected to do, a huge problem, huge
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  problem in America right now.
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  And I've got someone that's going to give us some solutions and how he sees it as a former
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  lawyer, attorney, Mr. John Haller, a fellowship Bible chapel, look up his updates on YouTube,
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  fellowship, Bible, chapel, great, great prophecy updates.
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  There's a lot of great information and even an occasional round table with experts on
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  his program.
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  So John, thank you so much for your time today.
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  Just dive right in, so many people, first of all, hello, good to see you again.
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  So many people are frustrated about this and I won't say people on the left, but people
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  that elected Trump to do certain things, he's trying to implement certain policies and
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  do certain things and another judge throws an injunction, we call it a wrench into the
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  work.
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  So I help us understand how they get away with doing this.
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  Well, I would just build on the clip that you played from former attorney general, Bill
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  Barr, I think it's back at private practice in DC now.
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  And he's exactly correct, but I would, I would build on it a little bit and say that we
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  really are in the midst of a constitutional crisis in the United States.
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  I mean, we've, we've done that term around a lot over the last eight, 10, 12 years since
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  Trump first started running for president and taking office and law fair and the things
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  that were done.
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  And we need to understand that on the left, they will use every tool and their toolkit
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  to slow down their opposition in this case, the Republicans and president Trump.
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  So one of the things that they're doing now is they claim that Trump is exceeding his
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  presidential authority and they're running into court to get an injunction and is Bill
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  Barr noted elsewhere in that clip that the judges are entering these nationwide injunctions.
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  And I think before Trump came into office the first time, there had been maybe a dozen
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  nationwide injunctions issued by all the federal courts in the history of the United
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  States of America, the Republic.
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  Now since Trump's been in office, there have been a few dozen, I believe.
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  So the courts are out of control, the courts are all overstepping.
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  And I've said this many times before, the one thing that you as a person as an individual
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  should fear is a rogue prosecutor and a rogue judge because they can make your life miserable.
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  I mean, the money that you would spend on legal fees to defend yourself, just like the
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  guys did in these J6 cases or the people did in the abortion clinic where they prayed
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  outside of abortion clinics, essentially it bankrupts you pretty quickly because lawyers
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  don't work for free and you're not the kind of person who would qualify for public defender.
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  The rules on that are pretty strict.
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  So essentially everything that you ever say for them will be put away.
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  So then they go into court and they ask a federal judge sitting in usually Washington,
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  DC, or they made judge shops someplace else to find a case, actually, they may file cases
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  in a number of different jurisdictions and try to find the judge that they want.
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  And you know, the judges are selected randomly.
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  So when I see this post for character in the District of Columbia federal court, getting
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  two of the most important cases here recently, I scratch my head as a lawyer because I practice
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  it for the court for over 40 years.
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  I don't know how you do that.
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  I don't know the odds.
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  I mean, if you're going to be able to get him as a judge, because he's in a logical
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  line with you, then you ought to be buying lottery tickets for everybody in your neighborhood
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  because you're going to win.
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  So there are a couple of solutions that we have here.
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  One is that the Supreme Court could take up one of these cases on an emergency basis and
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  put it into it.
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  And when you look back in the recent history of the Supreme Court, even Justice Elena
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  Kagan, who is a radical leftist, said that some of the things that the judges were doing
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  in terms of these broad injunctions to cover the whole country was completely out of line.
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  And so, listen, I put everything right now in the lap of John Roberts.
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  He needs to step up the plate and be a man and stop this Nambi-Pambi stuff that he's
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  been doing ever since he became Chief Justice.
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  It's pathetic where he needs to resign and let President Trump appoint somebody else's
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  Chief Justice, like Justice Gorsuch, would be a great choice right now, just because he'll be
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  around longer. And so I think if the court ever decided it, and Amy Coney Barrett drew a spine
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  in the meantime, the Republican side of this, they would shut these things down.
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  That's number one. The Supreme Court could take a case. The other thing is also in the lap of
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  the Supreme Court. They could amend the federal rules of civil procedure to not allow these
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  nationwide injunctions. It is ludicrous to me that they can do this because you can file
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  very similar cases on very similar facts in the same federal court and the same federal court
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  house in a particular city and district in the United States. One judge will decide it one way
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  and the other judge will decide it another way. It is ridiculous that a judge can put in place
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  a nationwide injunction. I think there are probably a few limited circumstances for that,
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  but it'd be very simple. All's they have to do is amend rule 65 of the federal rules of
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  civil procedure, which is the governing rule in federal court to say that their standards there
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  is to what you have to show to get a temporary restraining order, which expires after maximum
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  of a couple of weeks, maybe 28 days, if it's extended, and then you have to have another hearing to
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  get a permanent injunction, a preliminary or permanent injunction. So they could amend those rules
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  that those standards say, okay, in the case of a nationwide injunction, the moving party must
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  establish this. And then the other thing they can do, a little known part of the rule 65, is that
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  when you get an injunction against anybody, you have to come in and put up a security bond
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  in the event that the injunction is found to have been improperly granted and the other
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  party rules sustain damages. You have to put up a bond, which can be pretty expensive. Well,
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  it should be expensive, but the courts rarely enforce that. So a lot of times they'll say,
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  oh, just just do a $5,000 security bond, which almost anybody can get pretty quickly. But if they
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  said you need to put up a million or two million dollar bond to get this injunction, a lot of these
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  injunctions would go away. I mean, some of these these are NGOs that are bringing these cases.
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  Yeah, they don't have the money to do this. And certainly, by the way, good news, we just had
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  in the past week or so. Green's piece had made some liable statements about some oil and gas
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  and pipeline companies up in North Dakota. They were sued in a jury came back.
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  A North Dakota jury came back and said that they green piece owed these people $667 million.
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  Wow, that probably will bankrupt green piece.
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  Yeah, so there is good news. So there is. I want to point to something and Jeff, I'm not sure if
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  you can pull this up. But while he was talking at the beginning, Bill Barr, there was a graph there
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  with the yellow blocks showing how many of these injunctions for each president. And I think during
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  the Obama administration, there were 12. Trump's first term, there were 64. And already in his second
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  term, there are so far there are 15 have been 15 of these injunctions. So my question was just
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  got answered, John, but I just want you to respond to that. I was going to say, well, does the
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  same thing happen when there's a Democrat in the White House? Well, very rarely not there it is,
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  not even as much. Look at that. Obama 12 Trump 64 injunctions against him in his first term.
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  So yes, this is obviously not a fair game that they're playing. And I hate to call it a game.
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  What are your thoughts? Well, look, I think this shows activism on the part of the judges.
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  This is bad, bad legal training. So I mean, look at the one on the left side of that chart.
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  It shows bush at like five or four or five or something like that. Six. Okay, six. Yeah.
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  So I'm sure if you went back further in history, you would find almost none.
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  It's something that's happened with activist judges over the last 25 years, 25 years.
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  And now it's completely out of control. And the judges are very ideological driven. They have
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  lifetime appointments. Another thing that could be in this is where the House of Representatives
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  could step in. They could step in and limit the court's jurisdiction to even hear these type
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  of cases. And a lot of people say, oh, you're denying people access to the courts. Listen,
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  I actually got the high score and civil procedure of my law school my first year. So I paid very
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  close attention. And one of the first things you learn is that Congress can control the scope
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  of authority of the courts. That's the way the Constitution is set up. So for example,
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  if you want to sue somebody from another state in federal court, you can do that. Now,
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  when I started law school, I think you had to have $25,000 in controversy. It's been raised
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  to $75,000. But the court could completely do away with what's called diversity jurisdiction,
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  just like the Congress could put in place laws that would restrict the ability of the courts
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  to get these broad injunctions. They could just limit the jurisdiction. You can't do this.
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  I want to go back before we have to just take a very brief pause. We're with John Haller,
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  friends. That's why I wanted to get his perspective on this. And very helpful, by the way,
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  because most of us don't understand lawyer speak or what you've been trained in. And now they're
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  training to be activists. But back in 1820, this just came up when I was looking at this topic before
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  the podcast, in a letter to militia officer William Jarvis, Thomas Jefferson wrote,
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  you seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions,
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  a very dangerous doctrine indeed. And one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy,
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  their power, meaning the judges, is the more dangerous as they are in office for life. In other
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  words, lifetime appointments, and not responsible as the other functionaries are to the elective
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  control. And quote, so again, you go back to our founders. And you know, they must have known
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  something about this potential danger too. I mean, this is Jefferson, right?
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  Yeah, I mean, this has been a controversy around for a long time. And it was in early case,
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  the Justice, Chief Justice Marshall's court said that the court could weigh in on the
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  constitutionality of enactments. I mean, that was not presumed to be even a possibility by some
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  of the early founders. They were kind of shocked when that case happened. And so it's just grown
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  over the last couple hundred years, until the point now where we have activist judges that are very
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  ideologically driven. And I can tell you that it is, it is very much the case and these judges
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  wheel enormous power. I had a judge called me up one time and said, we'd had a pretrial or a
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  status conference. After I filed a case, the judge didn't like it. He called me up and he said,
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  Mr. Haller, in that conference, I was telling you, you need to dismiss this case immediately.
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  This is a federal judge. And I'm telling you, my heart was beating out of my chest. He called me
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  along. Nobody else was in the room. And he said, if you don't dismiss that case, you will lose this
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  case in my court. And you can go ahead and appeal it. And I doubt that you'll win on appeal.
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  So you decide what you want to do. I mean, it was very clear. He was sending me a message. So
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  Judge, it's not or above or not above strong arming you that way. Sometimes they're a little
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  bit more subtle. That was probably the most direct one I had in 45 years of practicing law.
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  Well, it's getting frustrating now when it affects an entire presidency and administration
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  that was elected to do certain things by the majority, by the will of the people. So, friends,
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  we're talking about judicial tyranny and dark days in America. If we don't get this
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  reversed and find more solutions here, we're with John Haller and we'll be right back on World
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  So, back with John Haller. So, where do we go from here, John, assuming? Let's just say John
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  Roberts doesn't take up or doesn't take the case or they don't intervene. What's going to happen?
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  What do you see happening? And then we'll go on to another topic.
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  I think Boasburg right now seems to be the pivot point a lot of this, although there are other
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  leftist activist judges in the District of Columbia District that are ideologically aligned with
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  him. I think he's setting it up to hold members of the Trump administration in contempt. And if
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  they're held in contempt, he can throw them in jail. And I would not put a past him to try to
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  hold President Trump in contempt. But understand, for example, with regard to the deportation of these
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  terrorists from Venezuela, that issue is pretty much committed to the executive branch.
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  And this is part of the problem with like a lot of things are going on in the Trump administration
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  that the executive branch is to implement the laws. It's to implement the laws and spend the money.
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  And so it's a check and a balance. So it's a check on unrestricted spending by Congress.
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  You know, the executive is not required to spend money on improper purposes or spend money
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  for fraud. And so that's what I would agree with what Elon Musk and Doas are doing in the
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  government right now is rooting out that waste and fraud because it's been abused. It's been
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  abused for a long time. And I'm going to say, I think I've contended this for a long time. Remember
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  the multi-billion dollar settlements that the banks paid to the federal government back
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  after the 2008 financial crisis, the mortgage backed securities and that type of thing.
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  Where did all that money go? I think there's good evidence some reporters have dug this out
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  that that money was laundered through a series of LLCs and NGOs and ended up in the hands of
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  left wing organizations. We're sort of seeing that with USAID that these left wing organizations
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  be getting millions and millions even billions of dollars to spend on political things.
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  And this judicial activism, by the way, I think it relates to Bible prophecy because what did
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  Jesus tell us disciples? You're going to be brought before magistrates and judges in the end.
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  And I think that that's an indication of what the end time is going to be like. We're seeing
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  this happening in two other countries, particularly right now. Well, Brazil is now going to put on
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  trial Bolsonaro, a Christian guy who lost to this radical left wing, leftist named Luna or
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  loony or Luna, loony Luna or whatever his name is. He's insane. He's put back in place on the
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  he shouldn't have been able to run for office, but he got his his compatriots in on the Supreme Court
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  and they overturned the law that kept him from running from office. Now they're going after
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  Bolsonaro and they're going to they're trying to put him in jail. This is what they wanted to do
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  with Donald Trump. And then you see the same thing going on in Israel, which I think is very
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  prophetically significant. And there the Supreme Court has essentially become made itself the supreme
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  branch of government. They have an attorney general who won't represent the government
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  in court that it represents mostly the interest of these radical left wing judges who've
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  been able to point himself to virtually every position on the Israeli Supreme Court.
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  And it's out of control. So Israel itself is right now in the midst of a I would call it a rather
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  massive constitutional crisis in the middle of a war that it you know the war that threatened
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  is an existential crisis for Israel. It threatens the existence of Israel. Yeah, that's not an
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  exaggeration of what's going on right now. It's it's volatile. Volatile might be even too
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  too soft of a word. And by the way, that's happening in Israel. I interviewed a friend of my
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  Danny Seaman. He's with I just started a new podcast with Jay and asked Jewish new syndicate.
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  I think you premiered last night his podcast, but we've talked about this quite a bit. And they
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  are trying to get rid of Netanyahu. They they could get rid of Netanyahu. It's called an election
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  and they could vote him out of office. Yeah. But in the midst of all this with regard to the
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  threats of Israel faces from Hamas and from the Houthis and Iran and Hezbollah and and also the
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  terror groups that predominate I think to a large extent in the area improperly called the West Bank.
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  It's actually biblical today in Somalia. Thank you. Those that that is a that is all an existential
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  crisis. Israel's fighting that. They're re instituting the war in Gaza. And I think that they just
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  need to go in. I don't know how I you know I see this and people say oh you're not a very good
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  Christian. Listen you know this is geopolitics and sometimes in the war you have to
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  annihilate or humiliate or both your enemy to prevent other people from doing to you what that
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  country did. So Israel's I think got the right approach with Gaza. Those people are going to be
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  made to leave. I think Israel's you're going to see Israel in the near term.
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  Annex Gaza. There's also rumors that they're going to Annex Judea in Somalia put it under Israeli
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  sovereignty just like they put the Golan Heights and there is really sovereignty during the prior
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  trip the first Trump administration. So I think you're going to see that and listen this is not
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  this this is something you know somebody asked me well how long does this last and I said so
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  I will tell you how long it lasts when you tell me the day the Lord returns to set up his king
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  because I don't see that it's going to be walked back and he's and I'm not scared okay but
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  I think we need to be situationally aware about things that are going on.
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  By the way just recently a parliament and you've not really heard this in the press outside
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  of a few areas. I think the Daily Telegraph may have mentioned it in an article
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  but it was just released for publication a 315 page report by a parliamentary committee of the
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  United Kingdom's parliament. Lord Roberts I think it's Anthony Roberts he's a great historian.
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  I wrote a great book in history of the English way updated. He continued on Churchill's
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  history of the English speaking peoples until 1901. Roberts updated it to the present day.
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  It is a very comprehensive report about what happened on October 7th and I think people
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  need to find that report downloaded at least look at it or get AI to do a summary of it for you.
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  It's incredibly well done. It's not getting any press but people need to understand
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  with the infiltration of Islamic migration in Europe and it's getting very bad in the UK
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  in France and Germany and in the United States the concern is that what happened in October 7th
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  in Israel is the plan to happen in multiple countries around the world including the United
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  States. So I would just foster people when you go out pay attention to what's going on.
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  You need to be situation where you're rare. That's aware. That's not to be scared.
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  Right. Israel's what little tiny Israel is dealing with this problem. They had these tremendous
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  military victories and operations the pages the taking out of the whole Hezbollah leadership
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  and by the way in Israel 80 to 85% of the population support what they're doing.
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  You would not know that by listening to the news.
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  There's a parallel to America too. The majority of Americans still support the policies
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  and what the president is trying to do but you would never know that from the media, the leftist
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  media in America. So I think what we need to watch over the near term and but I know this
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  air is a little bit into the future but something's going to happen with Iran I think in the near
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  term. My understanding is that about a third of the US B2 bombers the big you know stealth type
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  bombers are now in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. That's about a third of all the bombers
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  that we own. They've been pouring massive numbers of bombs highly lethal bombs into Israel
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  and I think you're going to probably see an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. It's interesting
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  David I just in the last few days I ran released another video of this massive underground missile
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  facility and when I see this I think what what what was the old say this the song we used to sing at
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  church key up it only takes a spark to get a fire going and I'm just thinking like you know they
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  dropped this massive number of bombs on one spot in Beirut and Nasrallah was in a bunker 150
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  feet below ground. Now the explosions didn't kill him but it sucked all of the oxygen out and he
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  is fixated and I'm just saying is we have more sophisticated bombs the US and I think that all
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  they got to do is they got to penetrate that underground missile base in one spot and the whole
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  thing is going to blow it'll be an explosion like a few that we have ever seen in human history
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  and so I'm I'm expecting that to happen but I don't think it'll happen before the end of the
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  Islamic holiday of Ramadan I think but I I think this is I mean you know we just had this
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  controversy about the signal chat and plans that were supposedly linked about you know taking
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  bombing the Houthis I think I think I personally I think that guy got added by somebody
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  it was added by a particular guy at the CIA and his wife is very much aligned with the left and so
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  I'm just saying I don't know if I did it on purpose I don't know if it's by accident
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  but I also say I don't think that detailed battle plans were released by the way my idea of
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  how you deal with the Houthis is I get a plane put bomb on plane by plane to Yemen and drop it
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  on autopilot hey we ran out of time already we're gonna have to talk about geopolitics in
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  Israel more next time but thanks brother god bless um friends thank you so much for sharing
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  the podcast god bless you and as always keep speaking the truth about things that matter
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  you