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- 0:11Helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
- 0:15This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engel.
- 0:30We all know that the federal government is made up of three coeval branches.
- 0:36That's not true.
- 0:37But what happens when the weaker two branches disagree?
- 0:42Hello there, everyday Americans, Paul Engel here with the Constitution Study, where we read and study the Constitution, teacher I can generation be free.
- 0:49Glad you could join me today.
- 0:51I've got several articles that's popped into my newsfeed that, well, it mostly deals with disputes between the executive and judicial branches, the two weaker branches.
- 1:04Now, I know people are like, what do you mean, Paul?
- 1:06How could that possibly be?
- 1:08I thought we have three, we all know we have three coequal branches.
- 1:11Well, you're correct, they have that we have three branches, but they are in no way equal.
- 1:18Think about it.
- 1:18Look at the Constitution.
- 1:21The largest article in the Constitution is Article One, the one that creates and establishes the basic powers of the legislator, Congress.
- 1:31Article 2, one of the next largest, is up and establishes the power for the executive, the president.
- 1:39The third and one of the smallest articles sets up and sets the powers for the judiciary, the courts.
- 1:48So uh, yeah, okay, it's the size matter.
- 1:52Well, how about this?
- 1:54You look at the powers delegated, the number of powers delegated that are actually delegated to these branches, and you'll find almost all the powers delegated by the Constitution to the United States are delegated to Congress.
- 2:06And most of the powers that are delegated to the president, he can only do with the advice and consent of the Senate, part of Congress.
- 2:15That's not enough.
- 2:16Consider this.
- 2:17Neither the president nor the federal courts can remove a member of another branch of government.
- 2:24However, Congress can.
- 2:26They can impeach and try and remove a member of the executive or the judicial.
- 2:34So we have three powers.
- 2:35And again, they're not co-equal.
- 2:38And I think sometimes we lose that.
- 2:39It kind of gets lost in the rhetoric, but it's important to understand that.
- 2:43So we've got the the two lesser branches, the two less powerful branches, the executive and the courts, and sometimes they disagree.
- 2:54Now, if you want to understand this better, I go all the way back to the case of Marbury versus Madison.
- 3:00If you've dealt with constitutional law for any length of time, you've probably heard of the case Marbury versus Madison.
- 3:07It goes all the way back to the early 1800s when John Adams lost his uh his uh race to um repeat as president, his second to have a second administration, his second term, he lost to Thomas Jefferson.
- 3:25Before he actually left office, he tried to pack the courts.
- 3:30He appointed all every court, everything from you know uh federal judges, district court judges to well, justices of the peace.
- 3:39And he got them uh approved by the Senate, the advice and consent of the Senate.
- 3:43The Senate consented to these appointments, but there's a problem.
- 3:48You see, the the Adams' Secretary of State, don't remember who that was.
- 3:54He never signed the commissions.
- 3:57You heard the old saying, the job's not done until the paperwork is done.
- 4:00Well, guess what?
- 4:01The job wasn't done because the paperwork didn't get done.
- 4:06So Adams is out in his entire administration.
- 4:10Jefferson comes in, and his Secretary of State was John, well, it was James Madison.
- 4:16He walks into his office, he sees this pile of judicial commissions that have not been signed and sealed, meaning they haven't been executed, and he refuses to sign them.
- 4:27He refuses to affix the seal of the United States to these commissions, which means these people are not actually judges.
- 4:34Well, one of the justices of the peace, one who would have a commission for the justice of the peace, a gentleman by the name of Marbury, sued, saying, We've been appointed, it's been approved by the Senate.
- 4:47This is a paperwork issue.
- 4:49We want the courts to force Mr.
- 4:51Madison to sign and seal these commissions because we've done everything we've needed to.
- 4:57And if you have spent any time looking at constitutional law, you've probably heard the saying, well, my reverses Madison, that's where the Supreme Court gave to itself the power of judicial review.
- 5:09That means they get to review any law and give their thumbs up and thumbs down.
- 5:12Except that's not exactly what happened.
- 5:15I read the opinion in Marbury versus Madison.
- 5:18Two things that are important.
- 5:19First is, yes, they do mention judicial review.
- 5:23They say, yes, we obviously have juice.
- 5:25When we're looking at a case, we have to review all the laws related to the case.
- 5:30And when laws are in conflict, we have to decide which law predominates.
- 5:36That's the that was it.
- 5:38The second thing they said is um, guess what?
- 5:41Although Congress said we could issue a writ of mandamus and order to the executive branch, the constitution doesn't give us that authority, therefore, Congress's law was unconstitutional and therefore void.
- 5:55So as much as we agree that Mr.
- 5:57Marbury is correct, he has done everything necessary to warrant that commission.
- 6:04We don't have the legal authority to order and part of the executive branch to do that.
- 6:10I want you to think about that as we sit through today's news and you have judges, all sorts of federal judges saying we order the the part of the executive branch to do this and do that.
- 6:20Well, if they actually read their own precedent, they'd find that's not that's not the case.
- 6:26Because you have to remember, courts are weak.
- 6:29The judiciary is weak to quote uh uh Alexander Hamilton in Federal 78.
- 6:36He says, whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive that in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary from the nature of its functions will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the constitution.
- 6:50Lord, I wish that were true.
- 6:52The courts have gone crazy and they are very damn uh dangerous to our rights, but that's something else.
- 6:58Uh going back to Mr.
- 7:00to Mr.
- 7:00Hamilton, he says, because it will be the least incapacity to annoy or injure them.
- 7:05The executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community.
- 7:10The legislature not only commands the purse but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated.
- 7:16The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse, no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever.
- 7:29It may truly be said to have neither force nor will, but merely judgment, and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm, even for the efficacy of its judgments.
- 7:41So when we have a again, most of the powers in Congress.
- 7:45The president has some powers, but most of them he has to do with Congress.
- 7:49Not all of them.
- 7:50He can pardon, uh, he can call an emergency session of Congress.
- 7:55Uh, he accepts foreign and you know, ambassadors and other public ministers, but pretty much everything else he has to do with Congress.
- 8:02But Paul, he's the commander-in-chief.
- 8:04That's correct.
- 8:05But it's Congress that says the rules for the military.
- 8:08The rules and regulations of the military are created by Congress.
- 8:12His job is to execute them.
- 8:14He's the chief executive.
- 8:16So, what do we talk about when I talk about with these these uh um these things?
- 8:20Well, the first one we look at actually deals with the sheriff.
- 8:22I've pointed out for years here on the constitution study that the sheriff is the most powerful law enforcement officer in the county.
- 8:30They the chief law enforcement has the most power.
- 8:32And most sheriffs I know, well, they don't really understand that their power, and well, I would say don't always exercise that.
- 8:41Well, except now we've got uh we got an issue in of all places, Las Vegas.
- 8:48Now, again, this is a little confusing to me because it's a dispute between the Metropolitan Police and a court, but they keep referring to the sheriff.
- 8:59So let me explain.
- 9:01Uh apparently there's this gentleman, a uh Joshua Sanchez Lopez, who um, well, the judge the court has ordered him to be released and placed on electronic monitoring.
- 9:16But there's a problem.
- 9:18See, Metro police told the judge that they refused to release Sanchez Gomez in defiance of his order.
- 9:24They cited previous incidents where Mr.
- 9:27Sanchez Lopez failed to appear in court, violated the department's program, and in one instance, he actually mocked the police after posting a photo of his ankle monitor on Snapchat.
- 9:39Now, Judge Goodman was not happy with this.
- 9:42He, in fact, he threatened to hold the cops in contempt of court.
- 9:45And this is where things get interesting because Metro police are claiming that the decision to keep Sanchez Lopez uh is a power granted to the sheriff by state law.
- 10:00Now, police departments are generally run by chiefs, not sheriffs.
- 10:04That's why I said there may be something weird in Nevada that says, you know, the sheriff, maybe he's being held in a county facility.
- 10:13I didn't, I didn't see this.
- 10:16Now, of course, the um Mr.
- 10:18Sanchez Lopez is a public defender.
- 10:20He vehemently disagrees.
- 10:22He says that Metro's argument is flat wrong.
- 10:25This is the job of the elected judge to decide whether someone charged with a crime should be released and under what conditions.
- 10:30He also said that the idea that a Metro employee can overrule a judge's release order and keep someone locked up, should worry anyone who believes in the constitution and the rule of law.
- 10:40And I I see his point.
- 10:46But you have to remember that this is a you know, okay, he's an elected judge.
- 10:51Fine.
- 10:52He's still a judge.
- 10:53He decides cases and controversies.
- 10:56He does not enforce the law.
- 10:59As we've already said, a judge is ultimately dependent on the executive arm for the efficacy of their decisions, and the executive arm.
- 11:08Well, that would be the police and/or the sheriff.
- 11:12Now, according to the general counsel for Metro Police Department, he says, we have to take a look at that and say, is this somebody who our electronic supervision program can monitor safely in the community?
- 11:23There's absolutely competing narratives about public safety occurring in our community.
- 11:29There's different approaches to it.
- 11:32Now, the governor of Nevada, a Joe Lombardo, actually is backing the police.
- 11:37He made a statement where he said, uh, Sheriff McMahon and the men and women of Metro are doing exactly what they've sworn to do.
- 11:44Protect the public.
- 11:46When repeat violent offenders are ordered back onto our streets, law enforcement has a duty to speak up and push back.
- 11:53I fully support support LV MPD's decision to take this issue to the Nevada Supreme Court and fight for public safety.
- 12:00I stand with law enforcement.
- 12:03Uh the general counsel, Mr.
- 12:05Dickinson said, also said he says the safety of our office is paramount.
- 12:08Well, there's problem number one, but yeah.
- 12:11Uh he said the safety of the public is key, and the key here is Sheriff McMahon will not violate the law to appease the Las Vegas Justice Court and let out people who he deems to be dangerous.
- 12:21We have a system that's set up so people can get out of jail quickly.
- 12:24And sometimes there just needs to be a little bit more thought given to it because lives are on the line.
- 12:30So let me stop and back up for a second.
- 12:33So this basically is a pissing match between a judge and a police department, including the sheriff.
- 12:42Not sure, you know, if he's an elected sheriff of the county, that's he's the chief law enforcement officer.
- 12:48But we also have to remember that uh Mr.
- 12:52Sanchez Lopez, he has rights.
- 12:56Even though he's apparently he's a multiple, he's been a multiple convicted felon, and um has been convicted on by this court.
- 13:05Um, well, actually, he's not convicted.
- 13:07He's this is a question of bail.
- 13:09Sorry.
- 13:10Almost forgot.
- 13:11So it's um it's interesting.
- 13:14He's been, he's been, I'm assuming indicted.
- 13:18Uh, if you're talking about an ankle monitor, I doubt you're talking about a misdemeanor.
- 13:22Um again, I don't have the details of this particular case, other than this argument between two branches of Nevada government.
- 13:31Um, in a judicial branch and an executive branch.
- 13:34So to me, the question is, okay, he's been indicted.
- 13:38Um, if he posts bail, is I'm torn.
- 13:46Because on the one hand, is the judge being lenient when you have somebody who has violated those orders before.
- 13:52Seems to me a little lenient that that does, but is he doing it based on Nevada law?
- 13:58I don't know.
- 13:59I'm not an attorney in Nevada, so maybe Nevada law says, yes, we we have to to do this, kind of like you know, they've done in New York City, where they release sometimes even violent felon violent people alleged of violent felonies onto the streets because of jail overcrowding or whatnot.
- 14:17On the other hand, I do see the police departments.
- 14:20This is a man who has repeated, he has multiple charges.
- 14:25He has uh apparently um repeatedly uh violated um or at least been a problem with the the electronic monitoring.
- 14:36Um to me that you know I I kind of see both sides.
- 14:40And without enough details, I'm not ready to come to it to a decision yet.
- 14:46I I because that to me, there's just not enough detail in here.
- 14:50I don't know if Nevada law, if I don't know if the judge is following Nevada law or if he's just been given this discretion and it's his decision.
- 14:59But I know he's a judge, not a ruler, meaning his decisions are not law.
- 15:06Now, I also know that in order for a um a law enforcement entity to take someone into custody, they must have probable cause that they've been involved in a crime.
- 15:18I mean, he's been charged with grand larceny uh of a motor vehicle.
- 15:23That's a crime.
- 15:25Um, you know, he's he's got and he's got uh uh previous convictions for involuntary manslaughter and drug charges.
- 15:32It seems like a dangerous person.
- 15:35But I don't know if this is a problem that the legislature has created because of the vagaries of how they're written their law, or if you just got two branches of government with opposite opinions.
- 15:46To me, okay, he's gonna go to the Supreme Court, really comes down to well, what has the what is has the legislator passed?
- 15:53What is the actual law of the land?
- 15:55Based on that, we could probably come up to a reasonable decision about which of these two are correct.
- 16:02Um I see both sides.
- 16:05I might lean a little bit more towards the police, but I don't have enough evidence.
- 16:10I don't have enough data to make a firm decision one way or the other.
- 16:14And I think I think it's important that we recognize that sometimes we need more data.
- 16:20We need more information before we make a decision because I'm I'm sure there are a lot of people that are simply jumping to oh, the thin blue line, we've got to protect the police.
- 16:29They know best.
- 16:30While others are looking going, oh no, no, no, we got to listen to the judges.
- 16:33The judges, the judges issue rulings.
- 16:35Their rulings are law, which they're not.
- 16:37They neither rule nor do they issue laws.
- 16:40So I wanted you to think about that to see we're dealing with that with that battle, that conflict.
- 16:44And uh, we'll see if more of news comes, we'll I'll bring that along too.
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- 21:37Welcome back, everyday Americans.
- 21:38You've rejoined the Constitution study.
- 21:40Today we're looking at the battle of the branches, the feuds between the executive and judicial branches of the United States.
- 21:47And I got another one for you.
- 21:49We talked about what was going on in Las Vegas.
- 21:51This one involves the CDC.
- 21:54Now, I reported before on how uh uh the CDC has updated their their childhood vaccine recommendation schedule um to remove or move things from recommended to talk to your doctor, right?
- 22:11And of course, if you're making a lot of money off of vaccines, that's probably a problem.
- 22:16So uh it's not too surprising that uh uh this led to a lawsuit.
- 22:23Uh this was filed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, and surprise, surprise, it was filed in the district court for the district of Massachusetts.
- 22:34Why?
- 22:35Because one of the judges there is Judge Brian Murphy.
- 22:38We've talked about him before and some of the crazy ideas he's come up with.
- 22:44Now, uh uh the judge, again, Judge Murphy, uh, he said in his decision, Congress has required ACIP.
- 22:52This that's the uh um the the advisory committee on immunization practices.
- 22:58Congress has required ACIP's involvement in the issuance of the immunization schedules.
- 23:03The CDC must at least consider ACIP's recommendations before adopting an immunization schedule and following or failing to follow the requirement is reviewable by this court.
- 23:13See, that was the first question.
- 23:15Could the decision by HHS actually be reviewed?
- 23:19Could the CDC review uh could this decision be reviewed by a court?
- 23:25Now, it should not surprise you that uh officials at HHS said no, the court can't review this, but of course, Judge Murphy says, Oh, yeah, I can review this, I can review anything I want.
- 23:37But I want you to see what's going on here.
- 23:39So, first of all, um, Mr.
- 23:41Murphy has a bit of a misnomer.
- 23:45Okay, because notice he says the CDC at least must consider ACIP's recommendation before adopting an immunization schedule.
- 23:54Well, it's not an immunization schedule, it's a recommendation schedule.
- 23:59In other words, these are the CD's recommendations.
- 24:01There is nothing in the CDC's document that requires people to get this immunization, which of course begs the question, then why is the American Academy of Pediatrics suing?
- 24:14Right?
- 24:15This was simply a recommendation.
- 24:17It doesn't, it doesn't compel parents to do this.
- 24:20Now, there are a lot of school districts and other functions that require you follow the CDC's recommendation in order to go to school.
- 24:28That's a whole nother issue.
- 24:31But you have uh how does the American Academy of Pediatrics have standing?
- 24:36How are they harmed by a change in the recommended schedule for these immunizations?
- 24:45Uh uh unless they're getting kit pack kickbacks, I don't know how they're harmed.
- 24:51So they shouldn't have standing, but we're not going to let that little technical detail get in the way.
- 24:57Now, he he also said, well, the update was was arbitrary and capricious because it abandoned the agency's long-standing practice of getting recommendations from ASIP before changing the immunization schedule without sufficient explanation.
- 25:11Now, hopefully you won't be surprised when I remind you that uh Judge Murphy cited in a previous case with the American Public Health Association over Kennedy's remaking of the ACIP.
- 25:22By the way, the ACIP, which is on record as ignoring the recommendations of qualified physicians in their recommendations to the CDC.
- 25:35They were on record as, you know, uh, I think it was uh Dr.
- 25:38Peter McCullough was saying, you know, hey, this can cause heart issues.
- 25:43We're just going to recommend it anyway.
- 25:45It became a rubber stamp.
- 25:48But I go all the way back to the beginning because I want to remind Judge Murphy of something.
- 25:52You took an oath to support the Constitution.
- 25:54Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to recommend a vaccine schedule to make any medical decisions for anyone.
- 26:02So this is all ado about it.
- 26:04This is an unconstitutional agency created to do unconstitutional things that this judge is putting in place.
- 26:10Again, it's a recommendation.
- 26:13I'm still trying to figure out where the the American Academy of Pediatrics is harmed by the fact that the CDC recommends that doctors talk with their patients or their patients' parents, because it's it's child anonymization.
- 26:28Um why also notice this that the CDC must consider their recommendations, not that they follow their recommendations.
- 26:39So they look at the ASIP recommendations and they say, nah, I don't think so.
- 26:43That's perfectly legal.
- 26:45It seems to me, Mr.
- 26:46Kennedy just heard that uh the tyrants in the CDC are not following the tyrants in the ASIP to have the government dictate to people what drugs are good, what stuff they're gonna stick in their children's arm.
- 26:59I also want to remember, remind you that uh Mr.
- 27:02Murphy does have a habit.
- 27:03He's got a lot of decisions that were overturned at the circuit court.
- 27:08I I think rightly because his decisions seem to be more political than legal, right?
- 27:16ACIP made a recommendation.
- 27:18We disagree.
- 27:19You can't disagree with the ASIP, you're supposed to follow the recommendation.
- 27:22No, they make recommendations.
- 27:24We decide whether or not to follow them.
- 27:25By the way, um, my family, we we ignored the CDC's childhood vaccine schedule.
- 27:30And I know a lot of families that do because it's a recommendation.
- 27:35It is not an order, it is not a law, it is not a requirement.
- 27:40Uh, let's look at another one.
- 27:41There's another federal court, this time out in um, I think it was in Colorado.
- 27:46So the the USDA, the the U.S.
- 27:49Department of Agriculture, illegal unconstitutional agency, does not legally exist.
- 27:54It was it was created by an unconstitutional law.
- 27:57Uh, they regulate the supplemental nutrition assistance program, the SNAP program, often referred to as as food stamps.
- 28:05Now, the USDA um ordered the state of Colorado to recertify their low-income families receiving SNAP or risk losing money from the federal government.
- 28:19Why did the U.S.
- 28:20do this?
- 28:21Well, they say there's we're worried about fraud.
- 28:24Did they have evidence of fraud in Colorado?
- 28:26I don't know.
- 28:27The article doesn't say so, at least not what I've read so far.
- 28:30So the USDA says you need to recertify, which again, they got like a hundred thousand snap recipients.
- 28:39And this involves no small amount of work.
- 28:41I mean, they've got to carry out in-person interviews, um, to recertify in five different counties to recertify that these people are eligible.
- 28:50And they only got 30 days to do that, which according to state attorneys, it's impossible.
- 28:58Now, a district judge R.
- 29:00Brooke Jackson issued a preliminary injunction uh preventing the USDA from requiring this recertification.
- 29:10Uh, reading from the judge's order, confronted with a choice between, in its view, attempting to comply with USDA's impossible and unlawful demands or face devastating and unlawful sanctions.
- 29:20Colorado filed a motion for preliminary injunction, which the judge gave.
- 29:26He said, Yeah, I I think this is a problem.
- 29:29And in fact, the judge says that Colorado's likely to win um the overall case, which is why he issued the the preliminary uh injunction.
- 29:40Um, again, I look at this going.
- 29:42Okay, I want to see what Colorado's basis was for requiring the recertification and the logic behind the 30 day time limit.
- 29:51I mean, this could again just be we I remember you had Minnesota, and you had the the billions of dollars in fraud.
- 30:00In Minnesota.
- 30:00A lot of it in their Medicaid and Medicare.
- 30:03But was there also in SNAP?
- 30:06Is the USDA kind of knee-jerk reaction to that?
- 30:09Or is there something else going on?
- 30:12Um I'm not entirely sure.
- 30:15I don't have all the information that the judge did.
- 30:18So I'm not I'm not really sure, but it does seem like 30 days is not a lot of time to re-interview 100,000 people.
- 30:26Um unless the USDA has a reasonable articulable suspicion that there is fraud amongst these 100,000 recipients.
- 30:37What is the basis of this demand?
- 30:40So I'm I'd say I kind of leading towards Colorado as far as the time frame to require recertification.
- 30:47If they gave them 12 months to do that, maybe that'd be less of an issue.
- 30:51Gave them six months to do that, maybe that'd be less of an issue.
- 30:54Maybe it's a time issue.
- 30:55But not having seen color or the USDA's evidence of their regional articulate suspicion.
- 31:02Uh again, I'm not entirely sure.
- 31:05And remember, this is not about giving an answer.
- 31:08Sometimes it's about asking the right questions and whether or not the argument between the two branches has merit.
- 31:17And understanding maybe sometimes you just need some more information.
- 31:21Here's another one.
- 31:22I kind of like this.
- 31:23All right.
- 31:23So the Department of Veterans Affairs apparently said they were terminating their collective bargaining agreement with the uh National Veterans Affairs Council, uh, which is part of the American Federation of Government Employees Union.
- 31:42And uh the council represents about 300,000 employees in Veterans Affairs.
- 31:47Now, why did the VA do this?
- 31:50Because remember, VA gets a lot of bad rap for a lot of things.
- 31:54Uh there they are they often get the bad rap for all the bad things that happen in VA hospitals with our veterans.
- 32:02But here's what they said.
- 32:04Um the VA employee said that they wanted to terminate their their collective bargaining agreement with these bargaining unit employees to quote, make it easier for VA leaders to promote high performance employees, hold poor performing poor performers accountable, and improve benefits and services to American veterans.
- 32:24That sounds like a good cause.
- 32:26Listen, we want to promote those who are doing a good job.
- 32:29We want to get rid of those, or at least hold accountable those who are not doing a good job because we want better benefits and services to American sounds like a wonderful goal.
- 32:40Now, they did this following Trump's executive order 14251, which excluded some federal agencies from labor management relation programs.
- 32:49I don't know that it had the legal authority to do that.
- 32:52I haven't dug that deeply into it, but um again, I think that public employee unions are terrible because you basically have this incestuous relationship with the people looking for these collective bargaining agreements, are also the ones funding the politicians that keep putting these uh people in these positions.
- 33:16So I think there's a basic conflict of interest.
- 33:19Now, a a federal judge, uh Melissa R.
- 33:23Du Bois of Rhode Island issued an injunction temporarily requiring the department to honor its master collective barging agreement with the uh National Veterans Affairs Council until the case could be heard incomplete and decided.
- 33:39Um again, I don't have all the details of the case, so I don't know.
- 33:43You know, the judge is looking at this.
- 33:45Do the the National Veterans Affairs Council, do they truly have a good chance of winning?
- 33:51Or is this just another example of a judge placing their thumb on the scale and ordering an executive agency to do something, which I thought the Supreme Court said in Marbury versus Madison something the courts couldn't do, order in a member of the executive branch to do something?
- 34:08I guess they forgot that over the years.
- 34:10That's that that's old when it's inconvenient.
- 34:13It's important when they need it, but it's old when it's inconvenient.
- 34:17But again, this is another one I don't have all the details.
- 34:19So I can't give you a nice clean answer.
- 34:22And I think that's important is sometimes the issue is not the details of the case.
- 34:29It's the the overarching idea of courts ordering uh um the federal executive agencies around and is are being done based on true legal issues.
- 34:44Is it being done on precedence, tarry decisis, or is it being done merely for political agendas?
- 34:52And that's the important point, right?
- 34:54It's it's it's the same thing with the Las Vegas case where the judge says you have to release them, and the police say he's dangerous.
- 35:04We can't release him.
- 35:05That makes no sense.
- 35:07Again, a lot more details would be needed on the individuals, but I want you to think about what happens.
- 35:12Can a court supersede an executive branch?
- 35:14Do courts rule over the executive or not?
- 35:19Because if Mr.
- 35:20Hamilton was correct and the courts require the executive arm to even make their their decisions happen, how do they get to rule over them?
- 35:31It seems like a conflict right there.
- 35:34And one that I do think uh needs to be explored more by well, we the people.
- 35:41Because ultimately, these people work for us.
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- 40:42Today we're talking about the battle of the branches.
- 40:44What happens when the two weaker branches of the federal government fight?
- 40:49And there's an interesting story here, something well I hadn't really thought about, but I wanted to spend a little time on.
- 40:55And it actually involves the president's power to pardon.
- 40:59Now, nobody I know of questions that the president has the power to pardon uh anybody for federal crimes.
- 41:05It got to be federal crimes.
- 41:08But he cannot pardon for an impeachment.
- 41:11But uh that that seems to be.
- 41:13So shortly after shortly after he was re-elected and he took office again, uh, Donald Trump uh pardoned people involved with the uh January 6th.
- 41:27And uh it was it was controversial, right?
- 41:31A lot of people got very upset.
- 41:32A lot of people thought, you know, it should have been sooner, but this happened, and uh, well, that I I thought he was the way that so many generator six people have been treated.
- 41:44I thought it was um appropriate.
- 41:47That was my opinion.
- 41:48But again, he had the power and he made the pardon.
- 41:51But that's where the uh gentleman by the name of Brian Cole Jr.
- 41:56comes in.
- 41:57You see, he was indicted uh on January, and it's uh I'm reporting January this year, January 26 in federal district court of planting uh two IEDs, improvised explosive devices at the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican National Committees.
- 42:16Now, uh here's where life gets a little interesting.
- 42:20Because Mr.
- 42:21Cole says that well, his offense is covered uh by Donald Trump's blanket clemency of January 6th suspects.
- 42:31Now I did look at the executive order, and uh part B uh says that uh the grant in full a complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the U.S.
- 42:44Capitol on January 6, 2021.
- 42:47Here's Mr.
- 42:48Cole's problem.
- 42:49That executive order was signed on January 20th, 2025.
- 42:54No, that's a full year before he was uh indicted.
- 43:01So he's claiming that um Donald Trump's pardon was um covered thing that had not been charged yet.
- 43:11And uh, well, uh that's problematic from my standpoint.
- 43:14I mean, how many people complained when Joe Biden issued pardons for offenses that hadn't been been charged yet?
- 43:22People had been convicted yet.
- 43:23Oh, you know, it was a a lot of people complain about that.
- 43:26And I'm wondering if uh uh people are complaining about uh Mr.
- 43:31Cole trying to effectively do the same thing now.
- 43:35Uh, how can you be pardoned when the pardon issued you you were not even accused of a crime at the time?
- 43:42It it seems to be um, well, it to me it seems to be a bit of a stretch.
- 43:48Now, part of it is the way uh Trump wrote the exec the pardon itself, right?
- 43:53Because it's again one section one pardon specific people, or section A, pardon, section B grants a full and complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
- 44:10Well, how near?
- 44:12Right?
- 44:13I I don't know how far the DNC and RNC headquarters, I don't know how far from the capitalist was, whether or not to be near.
- 44:21But it says uh uh individuals convicted of offenses.
- 44:26So, in order for Mr.
- 44:27Cole to get the pardon, he must first be convicted of the offense, which hasn't happened.
- 44:33Yet his attorneys claim that the charges should be thrown out.
- 44:37Well, because Trump gave clemency to anyone convicted of or charged with crimes related to the events occurring near the Capitol.
- 44:44But he hasn't been convicted yet.
- 44:46So he's not, he doesn't qualify, right?
- 44:48So he would have to be convicted to get the pardon, is kind of what I'm what I'm saying.
- 44:53Uh um, you know, I I look at this and again, it's legal shenanigans, right?
- 44:57It's it's what's an attorney's job is not to find the truth.
- 45:01The attorney's job is to get the best outcome for their client.
- 45:05So I understand the attorney saying, hey, you know, he's got clemency.
- 45:09It was given to him by Trump back in in January of last year.
- 45:13But in order for that to be true, he has to have been convicted of a crime.
- 45:18And that hasn't happened.
- 45:20Yet that doesn't stop the Mr.
- 45:22Cole's attorneys from uh uh making a motion where they write, applying governing law to plain, unambiguous language of President Trump's pardon demonstrates that the pardon applies to Mr.
- 45:33Cole because his alleged conduct is inextricably tethered to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
- 45:40Well, he's correct in that there they they certainly seem tethered, but the problem is in order for him to get the uh to get the clemency, he must be convicted of a crime, which D hasn't happened.
- 45:53Um sorry, uh and even then the question of can you get a pardon before you've been a pardon apply to you if what you did happened after the party was issued, or if you're convicted after the pardon is issued, it's a mess, it's a bit of a mess.
- 46:13Um, I'm kind of curious to see um how the courts handle this.
- 46:19Uh, I think it's also a warning case to say, hey, you know, maybe when you're writing these clemencies, these broad sweeping clemencies should be a little more tailored, right?
- 46:30We we don't want uh, I mean, we I understand if someone is being maltreated by the justice system, yes, we want them to be uh to to get uh redress of the grievance.
- 46:41On the other hand, we don't want it so broad that it sweeps into people who we otherwise wouldn't want them to.
- 46:49I doubt that Donald Trump meant to have a alleged uh pipe bomber uh at the at the two uh um headquarters of two major parties.
- 47:01I don't think he planned to include the bomber.
- 47:04Uh again, so it has to be a bit more specific.
- 47:09Okay, I've got one more I want, and this is an interesting because this is uh another lawsuit.
- 47:13This time it's anthropic filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
- 47:18Now, I've talked about this situation before, but now we've got a lawsuit.
- 47:22Uh Anthropic is one of these these AI companies.
- 47:27Um, and uh the Pentagon, in fact, I I covered that uh uh Secretary of Defense.
- 47:33No, he's not the Secretary of War.
- 47:35The president cannot change, it's still the Department of Defense.
- 47:38The president cannot change the name of a department created by the Congress.
- 47:44So it's a Secretary of Defense Heggs basically threatened anthropic um because well, they wanted the uh DOD wanted um access to features in anthropic that they had disabled for their own purposes.
- 47:58No, you need to give us unfettered access to your code or else.
- 48:02And apparently the RLs included um blacklisting them from government contracts.
- 48:09I mean, it certainly sounds to me like extortion up along the levels of you know what you expect to see in the godfather.
- 48:15You will do this for me, or else.
- 48:19Now, again, it it'd be one thing if they they actually found a national security risk.
- 48:26Um they said, oh yeah, you're you're a supply chain risk to national security.
- 48:31Not because of anything they not because anything, but be because they refuse to comply to give up control of their property because a government actor told them to.
- 48:43Now, the company's complaint states that uh they're already losing their federal government contracts that are already being terminated.
- 48:50Um, that it impacts not only their their current but perspective uh private sector agreements because of the need to be involved with with the government in the in these some of these contracts.
- 49:03They also complain, which the supply chain risk designation, which was confirmed a week or two ago, represents an extraordinary measure generally reserved for foreign adversaries.
- 49:16So under this designation, defense contractors, defense vendors, they must certify that they do not use anthropic um their their AI model known as Claude in order to work for the Pentagon.
- 49:29So it's not simply that anthropic can't work for the Pentagon.
- 49:31Nobody that's working on a DOD contract, they have to certify that they don't use any of anthropics or at least this anthropic product.
- 49:40Again, not because they've shown themselves to be dangerous, but because they wouldn't capitulate to an unconstitutional demand, a violation of the Fifth Amendment, the deprivation of property without due process of law by the Secretary of Defense.
- 49:57You know, maybe Secretary of War is a better title for him.
- 50:00He certainly is acting more like a warlord than an actual servant of the people of the United States.
- 50:07And of course, uh Hegseth didn't work on his own.
- 50:11Donald Trump has already made his stance clear.
- 50:13He posted on social media that he was directing agencies to immediately cease use of all anthropic technologies.
- 50:20He said, We will decide the fate of our country, not some out of control radical left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real world is about.
- 50:30That's a joke.
- 50:34You're already run by uh a radical left companies.
- 50:38They may or may not be AI.
- 50:40You have Facebook and X and all these companies that have shown a severe leftist bias.
- 50:48You have no problem with them and their products.
- 50:51No, this seems to me simply you won't bend to my will.
- 50:55Therefore, we're gonna, you know, we're going to punish you, not because you did anything wrong, because you refuse to capitulate when we made an illegal demand of your company.
- 51:07Uh that should be an interesting battle between the courts and the executive branch.
- 51:14And I I look forward to seeing how it works out in the court because again, it you know, show us what we've done that that makes us a supply chain.
- 51:22The fact that we wouldn't uh put in features we've deemed dangerous into our product just for you.
- 51:28Yeah, that's not a supply chain issue.
- 51:30That is a tyrant, that's a tyranny issue, and it's a tyrant issue at the Department of Defense.
- 51:36And it's also a tyranny issue at the White House.
- 51:40Ooh, I know a lot of people are not gonna be happy with that, but these what Mr.
- 51:44Trump is doing, those are the actions of a tyrant.
- 51:46You will manipulate your product to meet my needs, or we will shut you out.
- 51:51So let me go back to the opening premise, right?
- 51:54We have three branches of government, they are not equal.
- 51:56Almost all the powers delegated to the United States are vested in Congress.
- 52:00The president takes the laws of Congress and he puts them into execution.
- 52:04That's his oath that he he will faithfully execute the laws of the United States.
- 52:08That's his job.
- 52:09The judicial power vested in the courts is a power to try cases and decide controversies.
- 52:16It's not to make law, it's not to uh rule over others.
- 52:21They're given a case, they're given a controversy.
- 52:24Their job is to, through their judgment, determine what should be, but they have no power to actually enforce it.
- 52:32And I find it very interesting when we have two, these two weaker branches of the federal government when they're going head to head on some of these issues.
- 52:41Sometimes it's a direct confrontation, sometimes it's you know, we're asking what the the courts to look at what the the executive is doing based on the request of a third party as an anthropic.
- 52:52But I want you to consider how how do our founding fathers design this to work?
- 52:58And they they designed it, I think very simply.
- 53:01Uh, the court offers an opinion, but they're dependent on the executive branch to actually put it in place because the courts are supposed to be, as Alexander Hamblin said, the least able to harm or injure our rights because they have no power.
- 53:17They can issue all the opinions they want, but they have no power.
- 53:20And I've got a couple of other stories coming up to that will um well, I I think will feed into this uh a bit more.
- 53:29But I want you to think again, the two weaker branches of the federal government.
- 53:34When they fight, who wins?
- 53:37Legally, constitutionally, and and is that is that the best thing, or should we consider modifying the constitution to change the balance of power between these three branches of government?
- 53:49Something for you to think about as we uh as we head off.
- 53:53Um, the other thing I want you to think about is again, I'm often asked the question where what are you gonna do next?
- 53:58What's your study process next?
- 54:00I mean, I keep saying we need to read instead of the constitution.
- 54:03It's not something it's that's one and done, it's something we should be continually doing to some extent.
- 54:08And what plans do you have?
- 54:10I get asked that question all the time.
- 54:12Usually my answer is, well, it depends.
- 54:15And it's not because I'm trying to dodge, it really does depend.
- 54:19I need to know you know a little bit of your education, a little bit of your history.
- 54:23I need to know what your goals are before I can begin to give you a suggestion that'll be truly meaningful.
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- 54:36Go to constitutionstudy.com/slash wizard, and it'll ask you for your name and email address because I'm going to email you suggestions, and then it's going to ask you questions.
- 54:45You know, when did you last read the Constitution of the United States?
- 54:48Have you read any of the ancillary documents?
- 54:50What are your goals?
- 54:52Uh, and and based on those, the system will start generating suggestions.
- 54:57And of course, I'm gonna look at the whole thing, and I'm gonna send it if I see anything interesting.
- 55:01I'll send suggestions as well.
- 55:03But the point is, these are meant to be suggestions, ideas, things you may not have thought about as to what to do next in your study process.
- 55:12Now, as I said, I've been doing this for years, and I still spend time reading and studying.
- 55:18I still discover things about the constitution that uh uh I need to bring into my understanding and use and apply both here and in my life as a whole.
- 55:28So, again, give it a try, go to constitutionstudy.com/slash wizard.
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- 55:34Many of the suggestions have free options, and take a look.
- 55:37What's the worst that happens?
- 55:38You wait, you spend a little bit of time, and maybe you don't get any suggestions that really help.
- 55:42That's really the if that's the worst that can happen.
- 55:45I think you give it a try.
- 55:46Again, constitutionstudy.com slash wizard to find out more and see what suggestions we have for your future studies.
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