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One Big Beautiful Bill ADVANCES, plus Major SCOTUS Victories Limiting Nationwide Injunctions & Protecting Parental Rights

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Ben Ferguson: 我们终于在参议院就这个宏伟的法案采取了一些行动。我想快速和你谈谈一家很棒的公司,他们因为厌倦了只喝到普通的咖啡而创立了这家公司。我朋友公司的咖啡很特别。如果你想要一杯美味的咖啡,一杯每天都能喝到的小批量优质咖啡,那你需要看看Crockett咖啡。每次购买的一部分会捐给隧道到塔楼基金会。这项宏伟的法案正在成为现实,它正在参议院中。参议员,这项法案中什么最让你兴奋,人们需要了解什么? Ted Cruz: 这项法案是推进特朗普总统议程的主要工具,这是我们从选举中获得的授权。星期六晚上7点30分,参议院开始讨论,我们需要至少50票才能通过。最终,在星期六午夜左右,我们获得了51票,有两名共和党人投了反对票。兰德一直都会投反对票。汤姆·蒂利斯一直非常直言,他担心医疗补助,他希望减少医疗补助的支出削减。民主党人反对,所以参议院的一名可怜的书记员不得不坐在那里阅读一份长达一千页的法案。他们将阅读整个法案,这将花费10到12个小时。民主党人会有10个小时的辩论时间,他们会说共和党人很可怕,共和党人把老奶奶从悬崖上扔下去,共和党人讨厌穷孩子,讨厌残疾人,讨厌妇女、儿童、男人、老人、年轻人、小狗、小猫,讨厌所有人和所有事物。民主党人无法阻止它。我预测这个播客会发布,而我们仍在投票。预算协调的主要原因是它是参议院阻挠议事的例外情况。参议院的通常规则是,你需要60票才能推进立法,但我们没有60名共和党人,只有53名。预算协调规则下,民主党人可以提出无限的修正案。他们会提出每一个可怕的修正案,他们会制定修正案,让共和党人投下糟糕的选票,然后用电视广告攻击他们,试图在11月击败他们。我相信我们会完成这项工作。这项法案的首要目标是避免4万亿美元的增税。这项法案还体现并颁布了特朗普总统做出的许多关键减税承诺。例如,这项法案包括不对小费征税,这是我的立法,是我写的法案,这是特朗普总统的承诺。它还包括不对社会保障金征税,不对加班费征税,这两者都是巨大的、工人阶级的胜利。这项法案也是确保边境安全的工具,有1500亿美元的资金用于确保边境安全,建造隔离墙,雇用更多的边境巡逻人员,雇用更多的移民和海关执法人员,在边境部署更多的技术。最重要的是,还有另外1500亿美元用于重建军队,投资于击败中国,击败我们的对手,投资于高超音速武器,投资于下一代军事防御。民主党人总是把国防作为人质。民主党人基本上不关心国防,他们试图以国防开支作为人质,以推动更多的国内开支,更多的福利。他们是福利的政党,他们是大笔开支的政党。我们正在对军队进行重大投资,正是因为民主党人不能把国防作为人质。我提出的三项重要优先事项,立法都包含在这项法案中。第一,拍卖800兆赫的频谱。电磁频谱是我们所有电子设备通信的方式,是Wi-Fi的运作方式,是你获得手机运作的方式,是你获得流媒体的方式。60%最有价值的频谱由联邦政府控制。我在这项法案中写了一项条款,规定联邦政府将大部分频谱出售给私营部门。这将做几件事,第一,我相信这将为纳税人带来超过1000亿美元的实际收入,这些钱将用于减少赤字,减少债务。更重要的是,它将释放数十亿美元的私营部门投资,创造数十万个就业岗位,因为美国需要赢得6G的竞赛,这是下一代电信,并击败中国。第二,是学校选择,这项法案有有史以来写入法律的最重要的联邦学校选择条款。我认为学校选择是21世纪的民权问题。最后,是投资美国账户,特朗普账户,这项法案将为美国的每个孩子创建一个私人投资账户。我们将投入1000美元,我们将允许家庭和雇主和父母每年在一个有税收优惠的基金中投入5000美元。该基金将投资于标准普尔500指数,它将随着复合增长而增长,它将创造新一代的资本家。我实际上认为这项条款是法案中非常小的一部分。我认为从现在起10年、20年、30年后,它将是法案中影响最大的部分,因为我们将有一整代的孩子在市场上建立了储蓄和投资。他们将成为美国主要雇主的拥有者,这都在法案中,我对此感到非常兴奋。

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The "One Big Beautiful Bill" aims to advance President Trump's agenda by preventing a $4 trillion tax hike, implementing tax cuts, securing the border, and modernizing the military. It also includes provisions for school choice and creating investment accounts for children.
  • Avoids a $4 trillion tax increase by preserving the 2017 Trump tax cuts
  • Includes no taxes on tips, Social Security, and overtime pay
  • $150 billion allocated for border security and $150 billion for military funding
  • Introduces a significant federal school choice initiative
  • Creates $1,000 investment accounts for every child

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Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator, we finally got some action in the Senate on the big, beautiful bill. Catch us up to date. Well, we do. Late Saturday night, there was a major vote to move forward the one big, beautiful bill. The vote passed. The vote was 51 to 49, all Republicans except two.

voted to move it forward. Now, Sunday, you and I are recording this on Sunday, so we don't know exactly what has happened yet, except that Monday is going to be an all-day voterama, unlimited amendments. The Democrats are going to try to make Republicans cast all sorts of votes on all sorts of politically terrible amendments. Here's my prediction.

We will get this done. And by the end of the day Monday, the one big beautiful bill will pass the United States Senate. It will have major, major victories for the American people, major victories for President Trump's agenda. We're going to break down what is likely to be in it. And we're also going to talk about three major Supreme Court decisions that came down on Friday. Big victories for conservatives, reasons to celebrate. We're going to lay out the details of all three.

Yeah, it is going to be very big. And we'll talk about the biggest things that happened, as you mentioned, with the Supreme Court and also what is in the big, beautiful bill in just a moment. I want to talk to you real quick about a really awesome company. Two of my good friends started this, Buck Sexton and Clay Travis, because they were sick and tired of just getting an average cup of coffee. Well, good coffee, it's easy to find, but great tasting coffee is so much harder to discover.

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Well, this bill is the principal vehicle to advance President Trump's agenda, the mandate we had coming out of the election. Now, let me tell you procedurally where we are. Saturday night at 730, the Senate took it up. We needed at least 50 votes to move forward. There was a lot of drama. It was not clear that we were going to have 50 votes. At the end of the day, and it was about midnight on Saturday night, we ended up with 51 votes. Two Republicans voted no. Rand Paul voted no. And Tom Tillis voted no.

Rand was always going to vote no. Rand has said from the beginning he's going to vote no against anything in this bill. It's frustrating. Rand is a friend, but his vote is hard no, no matter what. So he's off the table. So we basically have 52 Republicans to work with. Tom Tillis. Tom Tillis has been very vocal that he's concerned about Medicaid and he wants fewer cuts in Medicaid spending.

I don't agree with Tom on this, but he certainly has a right to his view. Tom's a good man. That debate will be ongoing. What will happen next? So the Democrats objected. Normally there's a pretty standard motion in the Senate where you ask unanimous consent to waive the reading of the bill. Well, the Democrats objected to that. So what is happening is a poor clerk of the court

or clerk of the Senate rather, has to sit there and read a thousand page bill. And so all night, Saturday night at 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m., 4 a.m., 5 a.m., a clerk of the court is reading page after page of a thousand page bill. They're going to read the entirety of the bill. That'll take 10 to 12 hours.

We will then shortly thereafter. So the Democrats then have 10 hours of debate where they're all going to stand up. And then the preview that they're going to say on Sunday is they're going to say Republicans are horrible. They're going to say Republicans are throwing granny off the cliff. They're going to say Republicans hate poor kids, hate people with disabilities, hate women, children, men, old people, young people, puppies, kittens, everyone and everything. They're going to say that.

They're going to attack this bill like crazy, but then their 10 hours are going to be up and the Democrats can't stop it. What happens next, and this will happen Sunday evening, it'll extend all night Sunday, it'll extend into Monday morning. This podcast will come out. My prediction is this podcast will come out and we'll still be voting. We'll end voting sometime between midnight, 1, 2, 3, 4 a.m., 5 a.m. It could be as late as 7, 8, 9, 10 a.m. on Monday.

It depends how long the Democrats delay. One of the weird things about budget reconciliation, the entire process proceeds under the Budget Act of 1974. The reason reconciliation matters, there's a lot of procedural gobbledygook that doesn't matter, but the reason it matters, it's the principal exception to the Senate filibuster. The ordinary rules in the Senate are that you need 60 votes to proceed on legislation. We don't have 60 Republicans. We only have 53.

So to get 60 votes, you need seven Democrats. Seven Democrats are not going to agree to do anything positive for America right now, which means budget reconciliation is the main way to get around that. Under the rules of budget reconciliation, the Democrats can offer unlimited amendments. So they're going to offer every horrible amendment they can. And they're literally sitting there drafting, OK, what amendment can we craft to

that makes Republicans take a terrible vote. It makes Republicans take a vote that then will run TV ads and attack them and try to beat them in November. That'll happen all night. Give an example of that gamesmanship.

And by the way, both sides do this. So when the Democrats are in control, they use budget reconciliation. They used it multiple times. They spent trillions of dollars through budget reconciliation. The so-called Inflation Reduction Act was passed through budget reconciliation. And so, look, we teed up all sorts of terrible votes, which, frankly, we ran campaign ads against them and beat them in November on that. And so,

There is value in forcing your opponents to vote on things they don't want to vote for, particularly when your opponents are embracing unpopular positions. And in this case, they'll try to tee up bad amendments and hopefully Republicans will rally together and reject those amendments. I expect that all 100 senators and by the way, the median age is about 106. So that's that says something at the end of the day.

I believe we'll get this done. We'll see. I mean, look, this podcast will come out and when we'll find out if my prediction is right or wrong, but I think we'll get it done. And there's a lot of good elements in this bill. This bill, number one, avoids a $4 trillion tax increase. If we did nothing at the end of this year, there would be an automatic $4 trillion tax increase. The entire 2017 Trump tax cuts would expire automatically.

And so a huge purpose of this bill is to avoid that, to keep taxes low. This bill also embodies and enacts many of the key tax cut promises President Trump made. So, for example, this bill includes no taxes on tips. That's my legislation. I wrote that legislation. It was President Trump's promise, but I wrote the bill. That is in this bill. We're going to get it passed.

It also includes no taxes on Social Security and no taxes on overtime. Both of those are huge, working-class, blue-collar victories. President Trump campaigned on them, and I think we're going to deliver them. Beyond that, this bill is also the vehicle to secure the border. There's $150 billion in funding to secure the border, to build the wall, to hire more Border Patrol agents, to hire more ICE agents, to deploy more technology at the border. That is a big deal.

On top of that, there's another $150 billion to rebuild the military, to invest in defeating China, defeating our adversaries, to invest in hypersonics, to invest in the next generation of military defense. Historically, the Democrats keep defense hostage. So the battle that you have in Washington, classically, is between guns and butter.

where Republicans care about guns, we care about actually defending the nation, supporting our military. The Democrats, by and large, don't care about that, and they try to hold defense spending hostage to push for more domestic spending, more welfare. They are the party of welfare. They are the party of big spending. We're making a major investment in the military precisely because the Democrats can't hold that hostage. And then there are a ton of other priorities, including...

three huge priorities of mine, legislation that I introduced that are in this bill. Number one, auctioning off 800 megahertz of spectrum. Why does that matter? What does that mean, auctioning off spectrum? Look, electromagnetic spectrum is how all of our electronic devices communicate. It's how Wi-Fi operates. It's how you get your cell phone operates. It's how you get streaming. And 60% of the most valuable spectrum is controlled by the federal government.

I wrote the provision in this bill that mandates the federal government sell a significant chunk of that spectrum to the private sector. That's going to do a couple of things, Ben. Number one, it's going to produce, I believe, over $100 billion in real revenue to the taxpayers, money that will pay down the deficit, pay down the debt. So that's real revenue to the federal government. But number two...

Even more importantly, it will unleash billions of dollars of private sector investment and create hundreds of thousands of jobs because America needs to win the race for 6G, which is the next generation of telecom, and beat China. That is in this bill. And then there are two other provisions we've talked about, both of which I've authored. Number one is school choice, and this bill has the most significant federal school choice provision ever written into law. I wrote it.

As we speak now, I'm battling with the Senate parliamentarian to keep that in the bill. I believe we will keep that in the bill. And that investment, I think school choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

And finally, there are the Invest America accounts, the Trump accounts, where this bill will create a private investment account for every child in America. We'll seed it with $1,000. We'll allow family and employers and parents to contribute $5,000 a year in a tax-advantaged fund.

That fund will be invested in the S&P 500. It will grow with compound growth, and it will make a whole new generation of capitalists. I actually think this provision, it's a very small part of the bill.

I think 10, 20, 30 years from now, it will be the single most impactful part of the bill because we will have a whole generation of kids who have built up savings and investment in the market. They will be owners of the major employers in America. That's in the bill. I'm really excited about it.

It's going to be, as you said, one of the core things, I think, for Donald Trump and a victory for him and for the American people. How significant do you think the boost could be just to the rest of the agenda of putting America first, the MAGA agenda, because of this big victory? I say early on as administration, yes, we're well past 100 days. It takes time to get these things done. But this could also be momentum building for other agenda items. Am I wrong?

You're not wrong. And listen, I expect we're going to take up other reconciliation bills over the next year and a half. Why? Because reconciliation is the biggest exception to the filibuster. So it's the way we can legislate and get victories. But this bill has massive victories in it. Now, some conservatives, including me, have argued we should cut spending more. I agree with that. I have...

leaned in hard on cut spending, cut spending. I've made that case to my colleagues. I wish we were cutting spending more. But at the end of the day, we are reducing spending some. We need to do more. And we are cutting taxes in a profound way. And we are winning major victories for President Trump's agenda. There's a reason President Trump is all in behind this bill. And so I think we're going to get it done. I don't know if it'll be signed into law by July 4th.

But I think if the Senate gets it done on Monday, there's a real chance the House will come back and just pass the bill. And we could see on the 4th of July, President Trump signing this into law. This is Lisa Booth from The Truth with Lisa Booth. When it comes to your health, you shouldn't have to beg for permission. You've seen how the system really works.

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I want to move to the other big story as well, and this one deals with the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court's term has come to an end, and there was a major, not just win, but wins for President Trump and also the rule of law. I love talking Supreme Court with you, and I mean this as a compliment. You get to geek out on it because you clerked there. Take us into what just happened and how significant were some of these major decisions.

Yeah, you know, there are a few things more wonderful than an Ole Miss varsity tennis player calling me a geek. But, you know, the truth hurts and I am a geek. So I will happily do that. So there were three major decisions from the Supreme Court came down the end of last week. All three were victories. The most important was a decision on...

President Trump's birthright citizenship executive order. And the punchline is the court dramatically reined in the ability of district courts to issue nationwide injunctions, universal injunctions. We're going to break all that down momentarily. There was also a big victory that held that the parents of public school children can opt out of LGBT curriculum. It's a big win for religious liberty, big win for parental rights.

And finally, one other decision upheld a Texas law. So Texas passed a law requiring age verification for porn sites. That was challenged as unconstitutional. And the Supreme Court upheld that 6-3 as well. So three big victories, really important.

All right. So let's start with universal injunctions and the Trump v. Casa case. This is also, by the way, something that you chair the subcommittee hearing on that very issue earlier this month. So explain why this is such an important issue for everyone listening. Well, this was a case challenging President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.

Birthright citizenship is the law that says that a baby born in America is a U.S. citizen, even if that baby's parents are illegal, even if they came illegally precisely to have that baby in America, nonetheless, that baby is a U.S. citizen. As a policy matter, I think that is a very foolish policy. It is a policy that incentivizes illegal immigration. You see people, I spend a lot of time at the southern border. I go out on midnight patrols with the border patrol agents.

We see every day pregnant women coming across the border illegally, coming across, being brought in by human traffickers.

with the express purpose of coming here to have their baby in America, because that baby then becomes an anchor baby, that baby becomes a U.S. citizen. That doesn't make any sense. And by the way, most of the other countries on Earth don't have that policy. If you sneak into another country illegally, most other countries don't make them a citizen of that country. It is an accident of American history that our law has done that. And so for more than a decade, I've advocated for ending birthright citizenship.

Now, Ben, there is an open legal debate about how you can end birthright citizenship. There are some legal scholars who argue it can only be done through a constitutional amendment. And the reason is part of the predicate for birthright citizenship is the language of the 14th Amendment that talks about granting citizenship to people born in America. Now, there's a phrase in the 14th Amendment which is subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

and legal scholars argue back and forth. Some say you can only change birthright citizenship through a constitutional amendment. If that's the case, we should have an amendment because it's a policy that is foolish. Others say Congress can pass legislation to end birthright citizenship because someone who comes here illegally is not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is not subject to American jurisdiction, but rather came here illegally.

I've introduced legislation to end birthright citizenship through legislation. What President Trump has done is he's tried to do it a third way, which is through an executive order. That's going to be a harder hurdle to get through, but he's trying to do it. And on the policy grounds, he is exactly right. So what happened is in this case, there was a lawsuit challenging President Trump's executive order purporting to eliminate birthright citizenship.

And the district judge issued a nationwide injunction, a so-called universal injunction. So ordinarily, courts have jurisdiction, have authority over the parties in front of them. So if you have two parties in a car wreck and they crash into each other and one party sues the other, the court has jurisdiction over those two parties to say, okay, you're at fault. You pay for the repairs and the medical bills of the person injured. That is called under the Constitution, Article III of the Constitution,

Courts are given jurisdiction over cases and controversies, so actual disputes between real people. What the district judge did in this case is issued an injunction prohibiting Donald Trump and prohibiting the entire federal government from enforcing the birthright citizenship executive order against anybody, not just against the parties in front of the court. But 330 million people in this country, the court said, you cannot enforce this against anybody. It is a universal injunction.

That is something that for the first 100 plus years of our country never occurred. Universal injunctions began occurring more frequently, but not that much more frequently. There have been over 40 universal injunctions issued against Donald Trump in the first five months of his presidency. Now, how does that compare to the historical record? There are more universal injunctions that have been issued against President Trump

than were issued in the entire 20th century from 1900 to 2000. There have been more in the last five months than there were in those hundred years. There have been more universal injunctions issued against President Trump than were issued against all eight years of George W. Bush, all eight years of Barack Obama, and all four years of Joe Biden. Five months Trump has even more than that.

It has been an abuse of power. And as you noted, I have been very vocal. I've been laying out the case. I chaired a Judiciary Committee hearing focused on exactly this abuse of power. This is the next wave of lawfare.

During the last four years, we saw Democrat prosecutors indicting Donald Trump that was using the courts to attack their political enemy to try to stop the voters from reelecting Donald Trump. That didn't work. They failed. Once President Trump was reelected, this was the next iteration of lawfare.

Get Democrat attorneys general, get left-wing radical groups to go seek out radical district judges put on the bench by Joe Biden and Barack Obama to issue injunctions and shut down the entire Trump agenda because, and understand, these Democrat attorneys general

They don't believe in democracy. They don't believe the voters have a right to decide this is what we want and to elect someone to carry it out. Instead, they want courts to stand in the way. Well, you and I talked about it on an earlier podcast, what I thought was likely here and what I predicted on this podcast. As I said, I think the Supreme Court

is going to rein in universal injunctions. The Supreme Court's going to make clear this is an abuse of power. So I was really optimistic because in terms of the tools we have to rein in universal injunctions, the Supreme Court acting is by far the best. Well, on Friday they did. Their decision was fantastic. It was 6-3. The decision was written by Amy Coney Barrett. It is the most important opinion she has written in her tenure on the court.

And it is very strong. It makes clear that individual district judges do not have the legal authority. They don't have the jurisdiction to issue universal injunctions. That is a massive victory for the rule of law. And it is a massive blow against the lawfare that the radical left is waging against President Trump.

Yeah, no doubt about it. And there's, and that wasn't the only victory that came down. A, another one was a free speech coalition versus, uh, Paxton. And this was a case out of Texas where the Supreme court came down six to three and they held that Texas age verification law where you have to verify your age to be on a pornographic website is in fact constitutional. Uh,

This is really a huge, I think, build off to something that you work so hard on that there was bipartisan support for, which was the Take It Down Act. And this really coupled with that is a significant move by the United States to protect kids under the age of 18. That's exactly right. Ben, you and I are both parents. You and I are both dads. It's scary to be a parent right now.

Because our kids, when our kids get to be teenagers, we give them phones. And phones are just this portal to everything evil and horrible in the world. The pressures that are on our kids. When you and I were young, the biggest thing you had to worry about was the kid down the street punching you in the nose and giving you a bloody nose. And that wasn't fun, but it didn't end your life. Your nose healed and you were fine. Today, our kids deal with sexual predators online.

They deal with social media, pushing all sorts of negative content to them, pushing self-harm, pushing suicidal ideation, pushing substance abuse, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and

pushing body image. Look, I'm the dad of two daughters, and there's so much garbage online telling young girls, you're too fat, you're too ugly, you're this, you're that. And it does real damage and depression, anxiety, all the pressures that are directed at kids. And one of the pressures that are directed at kids is there is so much sexual content that is just bombarding children and bombarding sometimes young kids

And so the state of Texas passed a law, I think it's a very common sense law, that says if you have a site that is putting pornography online, that you have to verify if the users are over 18 or not, that you should not be pushing out porn to kids. And listen, when it comes to questions of free speech, I'm very libertarian. I think adults have a right to speak, and if they want to go back and forth on issues like this, adults can't.

But pushing porn to kids is wrong. And children, the content now is just, it is graphic, it is grotesque, and it bombards our kids. And so Texas passed a law that said if you want to push it to adults, you can, but you can't push it to kids. And there was a lawsuit. There was a lawsuit that said, look, we have a right to give five-year-olds graphic porn.

And the Supreme Court 6-3, Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion, said, no, there's nothing in the First Amendment that says you have the right to push pornography to young children. And states have a reasonable interest in protecting kids. I think that's a common sense victory. And on free speech, I'm a free speech absolutist, but I also think there is room for protecting children.

When it comes to adults, adults are welcome to consume all sorts of content, but there's no reason five, six, seven, eight, nine-year-olds should be seeing all the garbage that's there. I'm really gratified this was an important decision.

Yeah, it really was. And finally, the other one that you mentioned earlier, this one for me is so important for parental rights and getting parental rights back in our public schools, because there was a massive fight where parents were saying we should be able to opt our kids out.

of this LGBTQ plus curriculum. There was a lawsuit. It went to the Supreme Court. It favored on the side of parents six to three. This was massive for so many parents that are concerned about their kids being indoctrinated by the radical left. Yeah, this case arose out of Montgomery County in Maryland. And Montgomery County has a very diverse population.

And the Montgomery County School Board, unfortunately, is one of the more woke school boards in America. And so they put in place an aggressive LGBTQ curriculum. And they mandated it. And we're not talking high schoolers. We're talking young kids, kids kindergarten through fifth grade. And they pushed content that was pushing...

LGBT content that was pushing transgender content to little children, five, six, seven, eight-year-olds. And a group of parents said, hey, this is wrong. A group of parents, and they included Catholics, they included Muslims, they said, we don't want our school indoctrinating, brainwashing our kids that...

You think it's great to be gay, to be transgender. You think it's great. Like if you're a boy, one day you think you're a girl. It's not the school's job to tell our five year olds that's your ideology. And so they sued and and the school board said, basically, go jump in a lake. We're going to indoctrinate your kids and you have no right. And on appeal, the.

Well, the district court and the court of appeals both ruled against the parents and said they had no right. And it went to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court 6-3 upheld the right of the parents to opt out of that curriculum. And the court said, quote, because it has long recognized the rights of parents to direct the religious upbringing of their children, the court concluded that the parents are likely to succeed on the claim,

Justice Alito wrote the majority opinion for a 6-3 court, and they said that parents' rights are violated when the government, quote, substantially interferes with their children's religious development.

And so this is a great protection for parental rights. Look, parents ought to be in charge of what is being taught to their kids. It's also a great victory for religious liberty. If a parent wants to teach kids that to embrace a radical agenda, whether on LGBT or anything else, a parent has a right to do that.

But the school system should not be indoctrinating children, in particular young children. Kindergarteners is what this case was about. And so this is a big victory, three big victories for our constitutional rights, for common sense. And all three of them were 6-3 out of the Supreme Court.

6-3, massive, massive win there. I just am so thankful. You talk about elections having consequences and these fights are worth it. These are three massive changes, major victories. And remember, these Supreme Court justices were picked years or decades ago. It's why presidential elections are so important because when things like this happen,

You need a conservative court that actually looks at the law and interprets it the right way. And this is where all that hard work for so many people that went out and campaigned for people like you and others paid off. So congrats to everyone listening that votes in these elections. And this is why, you know, elections have consequences sometimes.

And presidencies have legacies. And this is finally where we're seeing some major, major victories that are protecting the rule of law and protecting parental rights as we just went through there and protecting kids. Don't forget, we do this show Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Hit that subscribe or auto-download button on this Fourth of July week as well. Be safe and have so much fun with your family. We'll be back here on Wednesday morning.

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