I'm Josh Hammer, and this is the Josh Hammer Show.

So the mayhem in Minneapolis now spilling over to multiple cities.

It is coast to coast.

Anarchy yet again in numerous large urban areas of these United States, cities as far and wide as Houston, Texas, Cincinnati, Ohio, Washington, d c Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and more, filled with angry protesters, no doubt coronated in some fashion or another, calling for the abolition of ICE, calling for ICE to get off of their streets.

This ultimately reached also Portland, Oregon.

Pearl And Oregon, one of the ground zero cities when it comes to leftist insurrectionary anarchy in America.

Porland, Oregon, you recall, was a flame for large swaths of the summer of law of the summer of twenty twenty, the summer of the George Floyd Antifa BLM riots.

Pearl And Oregon was at the epicenter of all this yesterday because there were multiple people who were shot in another confrontation between ICE and various other federal agents and so called protesters aka anarchists and rioters there in Portland, Oregon, all the way out on the Pacific Coast DHS partufull Mandsecurity saying that the Portland incident happened during a traffic stop of a Venezuelan gang member and DHS SO Secretary Chris Noman her entire organization, Trisia McLaughlin is the main spokesperson there at DHS.

DHS is saying that this Venezuelan gang member attempted to run over agents with his car, So a very similar story to what we saw earlier this week.

Unfortunately, in the Twin Cities where you had renade Nicole Good who, based on all the video that we've seen, did indeed attempt to run over or at bare minimum, it made no effort to avoid giving the impression that she intended to run over the ice agent in question there.

So the protests have now spread all the way out to Porland as well.

So we're dealing in again with coast to coast chaos.

And on yesterday's show, we were comparing this to the summer of twenty twenty.

Look, the summer of twenty twenty was one of the worst seasons of my entire life.

Chances are it was probably one of the worst seasons of your entire life too.

I have memories, not so very fond memories as the case may be, of early on in that horrific summer.

So the COVID nineteen lockdown started then in mid March of twenty twenty.

George Floyd dies in late May, so about two to two and a half months later, And I just I recall going to Chicago, going to the Windy City, in the downtown, the Loop, River North, this real urban corridor.

It felt like a zombie apocalypse.

All the storefronts are brought up there.

We're all in our mass at the time because at the time, most people thought that COVID nineteen was a was a lethal pandemic.

By the way, we're still winning an accountability for of all that which the biomedical establishment got so horrifically wrong.

And that was only the beginning, because for months and months and months, very much egged on by the Biden Harris campaign.

Who can forget how Kamala Harris vowed that she would make donations and encourage supporters to make donations to the bail fund for Black Lives Matter anarchists who were indicted and arrested at various times.

Who can forget that?

So are we right now about to go back to that this, this is the question right now.

Donald Trump stands for a lot of things.

Immigration has been his sinaquonon has been his number one issue since his descends down the gilded escalator at Trump Tower now ten and a half years ago, in the summer of twenty fifteen.

But you want to then get past the initial surface issue of immigration, and immigration is the most important of all the issues for sure, not downplaying immigration the slightest is the only issue that touches on every single other issue in our life, culture, economics, crime, national security, personal security, and ultimately the most foundational questions in all politics, who are we as a people and as a nation?

So I'm not downplaying immigration the slightest.

But when you get past Trump's senator issue, immigration law and order has been a key theme of President Trump's political bersona since he ran for president successfully in twenty sixteen.

Now, He's not always been truly truly perfect on that.

There was a blip on the radar during his first term when he signed the Misspeig Godden First Step Act, this jail break legislation that was pushed by Kanye West and Kim Kardashian and Jared Kushner and others, a very unfortunate bill.

But other than that blip in the radar, and especially especially on the campaign trail in twenty twenty four and in this second term.

Above all, Don Trump has governed as a law and order president.

That is why he has sent the National Guard into many cities in America, and currently he's dealing with a bit of a setback recently at the US Supreme Court when it comes to his efforts to shape up the National Guard in cities where they are not necessarily welcome to by the governor.

As a side, my unsolicited advice to administration on that is fairly straightforward, which is, at least for now, put a pause when it comes to sending the National Guard into blue cities in blue states, so cities like Chicago, Illinois, for instance, and focus for now on blue crime writen cities in red states where the governor will welcome you in.

I'm thinking of cities like Memphis, Tennessee, Austin, Texas, Saint Louis or Kansas City, Missouri.

Places like that.

That makes a lot of sense to me, So Trummore generally, though, especially when it comes to Washington, D c which has seen a genuine, a genuine reduction in a violent and property crime.

He has been governing as a law and order president.

ICE is just one of the many law enforcement agencies in the federal government.

They exist to enforce a certain sliver of federal law, this nation's immigration laws.

This nation has had immigration laws for a very very very long time.

In fact, it is constitutionally codified in Article one section of the Constitution, the part of our founding Charter that lists the enumerated powers of the Congress.

It is right there that Congress shall prescribe a uniform rule of naturalization, thus implying that there is to be such things as naturalizations, meaning that there's gonna be such thing as welcoming in new immigrants.

So the entire notion of bringing new people similarting them naturalizing that this was all part of who we are, and you need laws to do that.

ICE is there to enforce parts of our immigration law.

If you don't like the way the ICE is operating, you have recourse.

You can lobby your congressman, you can lobby your center to change this nation's immigration laws.

Heck, I happen to be a big fan of Ice and I have lobbied, and my own capacity as a commentator and a columnist, I have been lobbying for years to in his nation's immigration laws.

I actually want them to be stricter.

Maybe you disagree, Maybe you want them to be looser, more lax.

Fine, that's your right.

You can disagree.

As an American, we all have that right to form our own political opinion, that to disagree on the key issues that confront us.

Alternatively, you have the right to seek recourse in a federal court of law.

You think that a certain immigration statute is unconstitutional as written, or perhaps as being applied in an unconstitutional, illegal, discriminatory, et cetera fashion.

Okay, maybe I don't agree, but you have the right to make that case.

Go find your local open borders public interest law firm, La Raza, maybe it's even the ACLU.

Go find one of them and make your case in court.

You have that right as well.

What you do not have the right to do is to be smirch, to decry, at minimum and at maximum, to engage in potentially violent hostilities against this nation's law enforcement.

The rule of law is ultimately what separates civilization from barbarism.

Really it is actually that blunt.

You can go back to political philosophy one on one think about Thomas Hobbes, the English political philosopher who was the predecessor of Swords to John Locke, who most Americans are more familiar with.

Thomas Hobbs and his famous book.

Leviathan wrote about what he envisioned as the state of nature, and to Hobbes, in Hobesian political theory, the state of nature was infamously a war of all against all, this state of anarchy, where we're all just in it to protect our own skin, protect our own family, our own tribe or communi, et cetera.

And therefore, as part of the social contract, we give a right to the government to prevent this state of anarchy.

These are the antecedents of modern Western political theory, the likes of which it has existed at least in the era of the nation states, the era of the Westphalian nation state system the mid seventeenth century and onwards.

We need laws, and you need to have respect for law enforcement.

Without the rule of law, everything crumbles.

You can't be safe while walking on the sidewalk.

You can't be confident that you won't be mugged.

Heck, here in Florida where I live, a woman in her elder years was just stabbed in horrific fashion in a Barnes and Noble in a bookstore in Palm Beach County.

I'm sick of hearing these stories, whether there's stories about illegal immigrants, legal aliens, whether the story is just about folks who should have been institutionalized.

How about the horrific murder of the Ukrainian refugee in Sharle, North Carolinas, Whether it's legal aliens or people who shouldn't be on the streets in general, you know they're here legally, they should be institutionalized.

The rule of law must be made supreme.

And this notion of just bashing and bashing and bashing our law enforcement, it has to stop.

And yes, the rhetoric is out of control.

Out of control, it is directly incentivizing the instigating people to start throwing molotov cocktails, to getting in ICE's face, getting in the National Guardsman's face, ultimately including such tragedies as the fatal shooting of the National guardswoman in Washington, CEA on Thanksgiving Eve.

Tim Walls for what It's Worth says that he's not using inflammatory terms.

Yeah, okay, go ahead and watch this.

They have determined the character of a thirty seven year old mom that they didn't even know.

Don't know.

They've determined that the actions are done.

I don't know.

I've not used inflammatory terms of what happened.

I've asked us to find the answer.

The only way we find the answers is a thorough investigation.

I don't have a predetermined notion.

Yes I saw the video, yes I saw that.

But a thorough investigation, we'll see what happened before that.

It will take all factors in and it will come up with a fair and just conclusion and we will accept that.

Very very difficult for Minnesotan's to think in any way this is going to be fair.

When Christinoman was judge jury and basically executioner yesterday, that's very very difficult to think that they were going to be fair.

Okay, so judge jury and execution ere that's not inflammatory rhetoric, Tim Walls, when you called Ice a mini Gestapo last summer, therefore, directly comparing Ice to the Nazis was that inflammatory.

Get out of here.

This has to stop.

People are going to get killed frankly, maybe that's even the point, and Joshammer will be right back.

It has now been weeks of the most roiling protests that the theocratic claricy in Tehran, Iran has faced in the entire existence of that most sordid of Islamist regimes.

It's getting nasty.

So just yesterday on Thursday, we had on Rich Goldberg of the Foundation for Defensive Democraties to talk a little bit about how they are cutting off all the phone lines, all of the Internet.

They are in Iran, which typically means that bad stuff is going down, and sure enough, in the late hours local time of Thursday evening into Friday morning, there were lots of reports of some bad stuff going down there in Iran.

There's an interesting account on x that I follow, This account name mon Sure this is her real name.

Her account's name is neo Berg, and she's been tweeting a lot.

She's a Persian Jewish woman if you believe her her bio, which I have no reason not to believe, And she's been tweeting a lot about the protests.

And Neo Berg had this to say.

She claims it's coming from a source inside the Israeli Massad again take with the Grant assaults.

It's a bit of a game of phone tag here, but fascinating stuff.

Here's what therese accounts, which I've come to personally to mostly believe.

Whatever it's worth.

Here's what this account says.

Choose to believe it or not.

But remember that I was the first to insist Massad is involved in this uprising.

Until the last hour, at least fifty murders as of an hour ago, those fifty murders from the regime on the protesters.

However, Iranians have not left the streets and they're fighting.

So far, the massacres have not stopped, but it's a battle.

The Masad is active on the ground, but they are discreet.

They're currently handing out starlink dishes to Iranians and give them vital information to stay safe.

Massad has uncovered that the IRGC, that's the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the militant wing of the Islamist regime.

There So, Mazad has uncovered that the IRGC stores supplies weapons, water and food underneath mosques and shrines.

We have ever heard that before?

Oh yeah, that's exactly what Hamas does in Gaza too, and many of these mason shrines are connected by tunnels.

They're directing Iranians to target these.

Currently, the protesters are trying to locate kammey Ny, the Iatol, the Supremelyda, trying to locate his exact location.

It's unclear if Masad or the protesters have an assassination in mind, but they are working around the clock.

This is perhaps the most interesting part of it of this post made.

Some regime figures are actually moving their families out of Iran, apparently, so there's been all these rumors about the Ayatola kamme Ny, who apparently has a backup plan in place if you believe this reporting from the Times of London, the British paper.

Apparently Kameny has a plan in place in case the police, in case IRGC, in case all of the various elements the factions of the islamk Republic, if they all stop defending the regime.

Apparently the Kameny, the Ayatola, has a plan to high tail and get over to Moscow with a twenty person inner circle.

Apparently the foreign Minister of the reg the guy who leads their international negotiations for what it's worth apparently right now, he's actually not even inside Iran.

Apparently he is in Lebanon.

They're calling it an official diplomatic visits.

But his wife and children are also there apparently, which really ultimately means that he is there because he fears for his life.

But the videos and images that are coming out of Iran are utterly astounding.

You have in many of these cities all across the country, you have local police that are risking at all, that are putting their lives on the line, local police that are basically sticking two middle fingers to the Islamis who run the country and are actually siding with the protesters.

There are parts of Iran that until a day or two ago, parts of Tehran, the capital, I should say that up until a day or two go, we're not joining in the rest of the freight.

Those were seen as bastions, as holdouts for regime loyalty.

But we can now safely say, based on all that we've seen here that the city of Tehran is pretty much all united, north, south, east, west, All the parts of city are basically now united.

They're in the capital.

When it comes to trying ultimately to pressure this regime to step down, So first and foremost pray for the Iranian people, like genuinely actually do it.

Persia is a very very very proud, long, beautiful in many ways culture.

Persian civilization goes back two and a half millennia.

One of my favorite holidays on the Jewish calendar, the holiday of Porum, which is a holiday based around the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible, takes place in ancient Persia.

Persians go back a long time, and prior to the Islamist takeover of that country in nineteen seventy nine, it was still in many ways it was a little authoritarian under the shop, but in many ways it was still a beautiful civilization as recently as not my lifetime, but saw the older adults still let me to stay their lifetime.

And sure enough, if you actually look at the polls today it's not always easy to get reliable polling on this matter, but the Iranian people, the Persian people today, if you look at most of the cross tams Poles, are way less extreme in their worldview than most of the Arab countries around them.

Even the Arab countries that have renounced islmism and have adopted a more moderate flavor of Islam.

This has been one of the tragedies for the past four and a half decades in Iran is that this horrific regime, this regime which has been responsible for more bloodshed than any other state actor.

When it comes to funding Hasbola.

When it comes to funding, the who theis young.

When it comes to murdering hundreds and hundreds of American soldiers with those roadside IEDs in Iraq, this regime is a terrible fit for the Iranian people.

The onus is on President Trump, and President Trump gets this, the onus is on him to not let this opportunity go to waste.

I'm not saying you flying in the hundred first airborne to liberate a Ran in the name of Globo Homo, as Tucker Carls would say, No, that's obviously not my stance.

But you have to offer support to the protesters, maybe engage as our guests yesterday Rich Goldberg speculated in things like cyber attacks, But don't let this go to waste.

One of the great stains of Barack Obamas presidential legacy, and there were many, one of the great stains was that he lets the last large scale Iranian uprising in two thousand and nine, the so called Green Revolution, go to waste, mister presidents, do not do that this time.

For what it's worth, Donald Trump showing no sign that he intends to let it go to waste.

Here was Donald Trump speaking on his very topic to Sean Hannity on Fox News.

But I have put Arano noticed that if they start shooting at him.

These people are totally unarmed people, and they love their country.

They want something to happen.

Look at their country.

They've gone, they've gone back one hundred and fifty years.

But I've follow them that if they do an anything bad to these people, we're going to hit him very hard.

So if there is mass murder by the Iranian Ayahtols and those leadership, you're pledging to the people of Iran that you will come to their aid.

I've said it very loud and very clearly.

You know that's what we're going to do.

Dal Trump doesn't mince words, folks.

He's shown that time and time again.

The B two bombing run over the Iruni MUCRE facilities last June, the couragous operation against Ices at bogohraam to save the beleaguer pursue to Christians in Nigeria on Christmas, just a couple of weeks ago, the operation to extract Nicholas Maduro and his wife in the middle of the night, just last weekend in Cracas, Venezuela.

When dal Trump says something, he means it.

The question is, have we already reached the line that dald Trump is describing there to Sean Hannity, Have we already reached the line of mass states murder of instantly pro testing civilians.

Distance, It's very hard to get an accurate death toll, but right now it's clearly over fifty, possibly even higher than that.

And what is that?

What does that doesn't mean for the United States to get involved?

Well, we'll leave the details to the policymakers.

Frankly, I have great trust in the President, in the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Raising Kine, in Secretary Hegseeth, in Secretary Rubio.

I have great trust them to formulate a concrete, tangible game plan.

But at a moment like this.

Where the axis that opposes America un her interests is weakened Venezuela, Maduro, well they're gone for now' see what happens with Delsa Rodriguez the new socials in charge.

But for now Maduro's out, the Cuban regime absent to Venezuela, and oil is now tottering.

Russia looks simply embarrassed given their S three hundred missile defense and work in Iran or Venezuela, and they're wounded in Ukraine also looks a bit silly, given that they stood nominally for Iran and Venezuela.

Don't let this go to waste a geopolitical chess board.

With this horrific Isla's regime not in power in Iran changes everything.

The Middle East would be totally upended overnight.

And with an up ended Middle East and the chance for broader rock pro chemont and peace between the Arab world, the Persian world aka Iran, and the Jewish world aka Israel, you're looking at a totally changed geopolitical map.

President Trump has his eyes on the prize here.

What exactly that means, We're not entirely clear yet, but a lot of good stuff ahead.

That I have no doubt.

We'll be right back.

I think back, just to finish up our thoughts here on Iran venezuel and all this, I think back oftentimes to what happened last June where there was this twelve day war where the Israeli military he took out a lot of the initial Iranian air defense infrastructure, and then the United States comes in with those big swooping B two bombers for the death blow, for the coup de gras, if you will, at the end the analogy that I made the time for the basketball fans and that this is something of an alley oop.

Think about Kobe Bryant dishing off to Shaquille O'Neil for an alley oop back in the day twenty five years ago for the Lakers, give or take.

And I think back to the polling at that time.

There was a CBS News poll at that time which showed that ninety four percent of self identified MAGA Republicans supported President Trump's actions against the Iranian nuclear facility ninety four percent.

It really does make you wonder all all of these doomsdayers, what Dan Bongino calls the black pillars, It really makes you wonder what audience are they speaking purportedly on.

Behalf of the folks like Tucker Carlson, who exactly are you speaking for for the six percent of so called MAGA that opposed Iran.

I think of that now in the context of the current Iranian protests and the Maduro toppling and extraction, because there was another brand new poll from the same polster, CBS News, a brand new poll that just came out on Wednesday from CBS News.

So the question is, do you approve disapprove of the US action removing extracting Nicolas Mudua and his wife from Krakas, Venezuela.

MAGA Republicans get this ninety seven percent approval, literally an even higher approval than the bombing of the Irani nuclear facilities last June.

So you know, I mean, there's all this drama, all this drama online, and those of you who follow the online discourse closely you know that, for better or worse, I have oftentimes been at the center or near the center of much of this drama in recent months, especially since the horrific assassination of my friend and our Kyle Goods sale Le Media Charlie Kirk.

But I look at things like this conversation a few nights ago between Tucker Carlson and Making Kelly, where they're condemning the Maduro operation.

Billy, you're speaking for the three percent.

You're gonna pound your chest and say I'm MAGA while speaking of behalf of the literal three percent of people according to the CBS News poll who are pro Maduro MAGA.

It just doesn't quite make sense.

And you know, in line with this notion, this notion contrary to all the online misinformation, this notion that MAGA as a matter of doctors, a matter of principle, and as a matter of what the actual MAGA voters believe, this notion that MAGA does support a slightly more robust internationalism.

That's not to confuse it with Swashbucklington Bush era neo consertism.

No one is trying here to resuscitate the era of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeldt.

No One Team America, World Police, liberate the world the name of democracy.

No.

But Donald Trump clearly is not the kind of guy who buries his head in the sand like an Ostrich and just has no interest in the rest of the world around him.

And you know what's interesting is his own vice president, Jade Vance.

There's something of a Beltway centric conversation happening right now between the perceived may not be able, the perceived tension between the Vice President Jade Vance and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Marco Rubio is really having a moment.

He's the Secretary of State, he's a national security advisor.

He's pulling off this Henry Kissinger esque bouncing of these two very important roles.

I'm sure you've seen the memes online.

Rubio is going to be this.

He's going to be that.

He recently was joking that he's not going to become the head coach of the Miami Dolphins in his hometown of Miami, Florida.

So Rubio is really heavy own and he was correctly seen as the real driver of the administration's policy in Venezuela.

Well JD Vance, who unfortunately, from my vantage point, has failed to do anything to himself from Tucker Carlson, Jadvans, who is known to have not full on isolationists, but slightly different foreign policy instincts, at least from Mark or Rubio.

There's something of a perceived tension between them, and a lot of the folks were saying, oh, why wasn't Jada Vance at Mara Lago during the Operation your mileage may vary as to all that.

We're not going to get into it right now on this show.

I say all that because even Jade Vance, who comes from that wing of the movement, or at least is closer to that way in the movement.

Even he wrote Bussy supports another Western Hemisphere Trump Forum policy initiative, which is the attempted purchase or annexation of Greenland.

He was Vice President Jady Vance talking about this on Fox News.

The President is.

Going to make the ultimate determination here, but there's been a lot of belly aching from Europe, and Europe has failed to contend with the fundamental argument the President and the entire administration has made Greenland is critical not just to our national security, but to the world's national security.

People don't realize this.

The entire missile defense infrastructure is partially dependent on Greenland.

If God forbid, the Russians are the Chinese not saying they're going to but if God forbid in the future, somebody launched a nuclear missile into our continent.

They launched a nuclear missile at Europe.

Greenland is a critical part of that missile defense.

So you ask yourself, have the Europeans have the Danes done a proper job of securing Greenland and making sure it can continue to serve as an anchor for world security and missile defense?

And the answer is obviously they have it.

Okay.

So the point is that even the Vice President, who's still buddy Buddy Wodtark Carlson, even he agrees clearly as you've seen it in his voice there with this interest in Greenland.

Truld Be told those of you with a long enough memory, you'll recall that it was actually during the first Trump administration that these rumors first started speculating, as in the final year or two of the first Trump term that at first kind of simmered to the surface that Donald Trump was interested potentially in trying to make an offer to Denmark for Greenland.

Tom Cotton, the Center from Arkansaw wrote an op ed for The New York Times August twenty six, twenty nineteen, title this op ed, we should Buy Greenland.

The opbed began as follows.

Quote.

After news leaked last week that President Trump had expressed interest in acquiring Greenland from Denmark, his critics predictably derided him as a crazy But once again, the president is crazy.

Like a fox.

The apposition of Greenland would secure vital strategic interest for the United States, economically benefit both US and Greenlanders, and would be in keeping with American and Danish diplomatic relations.

Strategically positioned in the Arctic Circle, Greenland has long attracted the attention of American policymakers.

As far back as eighteen sixty seven, Secretary of State William Seward explored the acquisition of Greenland's around the time that he negotiated the purchase of Alaska from the Russians.

In nineteen forty six, the Truman administration offered one hundred million dollars to Denmark to acquire Greenland's.

By the time, President Truman argued that Greenland was quote indispensable to the safety of the United States at the time in the context of the growing Soviet threat there in World War Two.

I bet you didn't know that Harry Truman, Harry Truman, the Democrat, Harry Truman offered one hundred million buckaroos to the Danes for Greenland.

So all the corporate media now is saying, oh my god, Donald Trump is crazy.

I mean, can you look at the history, can you look at the history there William Seward.

Seward's folly, that's what That's what they call it.

His purchase of Alaska, by the way, an amazing purchase.

He thought about this shortly after Abraham lincoln assassination in eighteen sixty seven.

Harry Truman, just after we defeated Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, made an offer.

To the Danes.

This is not crazy at all what Donald Trump is doing.

Would it be crazy to actually militarily invade, given that Denmark the nominal notional control of Greenland, then that they are Anito country.

Sure, but it's not gonna happen.

This tough talk, this bluster, this braggadoe show, this quintessential Trumpy and brogado show that you're hearing right now.

It's an opening gambit, folks.

It's the art of the deal one oh one.

You start off talking more aggressively, Ultimately you're willing to settle for something less.

Now, is it?

The nicest thing in the world?

Does make everyone feel happy?

Jolly that we're talking about annexing a European territory?

Maybe not, to which I say, who cares?

The United States has such a long, long history when it comes to territorial purchases and acquisitions.

Louisiana purchase is the most prominent of them all, but there's more than like a possible count the Gadsden purchase from Mexico, any number of other islands in the Pacific, Puerto Rico by treaty, briefly, the Philippines, and on and on and on we go.

There is a long history of the US purchasing an acquiring territor by various means.

Greenland fits neatly into that puzzle.

The Arctic is, indeed, as tom Con and jade Vans both argue, a crucial, crucial part of the world for global security when it comes to Russia and China, we should have more assets there in the Arctic and Canada.

Given their current leadership, maybe you can't always trust them.

It'll be great if we had our own Arctic footprints and bigger than just Alaska.

That means Greenland.

President Trump is right on Greenland.

I wish nothing the best in his pursuits of acquiring that island.

We'll be right back.

Welcome back, especially welcome back to those of you currently watching on the Sale News Channel.

This is our first week on Salem News Channel.

We are just delighted, thrilled, and honored to be in the ten pm weeknight primetime slot here on the Salem News Channel.

So, if you're new to the program, whether you're watching or listening all across the Salem Podcast network, watching on Newsweek's YouTube page, or elsewhere, perhaps you don't know as much about my backgrounds.

You might not know that among the things that I am is a lawyer by background.

I'm still senior counsel at the Article three Project.

You can check us out at Article three project dot org.

We fight for President Trump's conservative judicial nominees, we fight against lawfare, and we fight for the rule of law.

More generally, the topic of tonight's opening monologue, well, that's to say that I follow U Supreme Court and federal litigation very closely.

There are any number of big cases that we are still expecting this term.

So the question as to when exactly these cases will ultimately be decided.

There's a case out of Colorado on whether or not a ban on on so called conversion therapy when it comes to homosexual inclinent youth and teenagers, whether or not that it's constitutionally permissible.

There is the birthright relationship case, a tremendous case.

We will get into a greater detail yet again around the time that that case comes out, there's the case on Donald Trump's tariffs, his sweeping reciprocal tariff policy, which he is enacting unilaterally under a late nineteen seventies Jimmy Carter era emergency statute.

It's a very interesting statutory debate as to whether or not this statue provides administration with the ability to do this unilaterally.

Apps into additional congressional legislation.

There's fascinating stuff when it comes to the Voting Rights Act and this whole notion of so called majority minority congressional districts.

One of the only times that you're actually allowed to use race as comes in this really arcane and deeply problematic area of Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five litigation.

That's the case, actually 'um expecting cautiously a very sound result.

That's about the case as well.

When it comes to the notion of so called independent agencies.

This is the Slaughter case.

This is a case that will determine hopefully whether or not such so called independent agencies as the FTC, the FCC, and similar organizations whether or not they are constitutional.

The short answer is they're not.

You're either in an Article one the Congress, you're an Article two to the executive branch, you're in an Article three the judiciary, or you're out of here.

There's only three doors.

There's no fourth door.

That case has tremendous potential, tremendous potential to reshape the unaccountable bureaucracy, the fourth state.

So Theupreme Court announced a decision day earlier, say, on a fri January ninth, and there were all sorts of possible indications that maybe they would get into one of these higher level cases.

There's a lot of chatter, at least in my lawyer circles, so whether or not they might decide the tariff case.

A tariff case.

Recall, there's a lot of business.

There are billions, maybe even trillions of dollars of business that are awaiting shorty some sort of firm a guidance on the tariffs before they make investment decisions or importation or export decisions.

So a lot of folks thought that they would release that opainting today.

Some folks thought that that Voting Rights Act Racial Redistion case Mike Mounth Today, it turns out that only one opinion was actually released earlier today, a somewhat more obscure case called a bo versus the United States.

We're not going to get into the details too much here.

It basically involves a statute called the Hobbes Act.

The Hobbes Acts was a statute that is enacted in nineteen forty six that makes it a crime to commit, attempt to commit, or conspire to commit robbery, attempted robbery, or extortion across state lines.

Again, the details here are not worthing into, but suffice to say there are going to be many big cases upcoming at the Supreme Court.

We're actually getting ready now for a huge day at the Supreme Court this Tuesday.

This coming Tuesday, the Justice will hear or arguments in two combined consolidated transgender related cases.

Well, the justices do is when you have very similar fact patterns, similar cases, they oftentimes then consolidate, trying to then save resources for purposes of judicial economy and thereby give a ruling that will bind not just one state when it comes to one law, but ideally multiple states when it comes to multiple laws.

So the two cases that are coming this Tuesday are titled Little the Cox and West Virginia versus b p J.

So.

One challenger is a twenty four year old quote unquote transgender woman, which means that it's a biological man, and another is his fifteen year old high school student, who again identifies as female, but again is also a biological man.

The question in both instances.

In both instances here, which come out of the states of Idaho and West Virginia, is whether or not these states bans on biological males competing in women's sports, whether or not this is legal, or whether it violates Title nine.

I can't help but smile a little bit because I find this debate simply preposterous.

Title nine was an amendment to these Civil Rights Act that was fought for by feminists, by the second wave femine of the late nineteen sixties early nineteen seventies.

It was fought for by the great female athletic champions of the day, thing of people like Billy Jing King, the tennis player.

Now Title nine has been weaponized, to be sure.

It's one of the reasons why when it comes to the NCAA and college athletics, say a university cannot have more male teams than female teams.

There's been all swords of ways that it's been distorted and weaponized, but Title nine, at its core.

Is a.

Law that prevents a university from engaging in sex discrimination.

Again, the interpretation has been botched, but fundamentally it's a noble law.

Sex discrimination is wrong.

And I find this whole army preposterous because the transgender lobby and the plaintiffs, those who are bringing suit against these Idaho and West Virginia laws, these cases that will be consolidding to argue this Tuesday, are basically arguing that this law, Title nine, that was passed to prevent sex discrimination, well, actually what it actually means is that it mandates sex discrimination.

That's what they're arguing.

Trust me, the lawyers will not frame it that way.

Okay, they're gonna they're not gonna phrase that way in court because they'll be conceding that their case stinks and it's garbage.

But that's actually what they're arguing.

If it is permissible, indeed, perhaps if it is required that biological males compete against biological females in athletic competition, then you are obliterating the distinction between sexes.

In that case, sex discrimination is not merely not verbodin, it's required, it's mandatory, you have to have it.

The good news is that I think this court is going to do the right thing when it comes to these cases.

There is be recent ish precedents of this past term.

This past summer twenty twenty five, the Scrimetti case out of Tennessee.

So in US versus Scrimmetti, the court held that Tennessee's ban on genital mutilation and chemical castration aka puberty blockers hormone therapy, that they're banned on these horrific pseudo treatments and the name of or really u quote unquote treangender medicine.

The court held that Tennessee's ban on that was okay.

This is an idiological six' three split of the, court with Even John roberts and the various other centrist conservatives joined the.

Majority so if pass is, prologue and in this CASE i actually think it might, be it seems to me like The court is likely going to do the right.

Thing, unfortunately sometimes you never.

Know Neil, gorsage after, all one of the First trump terms Nominees Neil gorsage did give us the stink bomb opinion Of, bostock a case in twenty twenty that unfortunately red transgenderism into a different part of The Civil Rights act in that.

Context in that case it Was title, seven Not title.

Nine so it is not outside of the real possibility that the side of civilizational, sanity of common sense and basic human deseasey.

LOSES i think we will, win but you never know until it's, over.

Folks when The founders found this country and they wrote about how we hold these truths to be self, evident one of the things that is most self evident of all is that sexual dimorphism is, real male and.

Female he created.

Them It's genesis, one twenty.

Seven this case is really not any more complicated than.

That that's what it's about at its.

Core god will in justice do the right.

Thing AS i, SAID i think they.

Will hope you have a great, weekend.

Folks I'm Josh hammer signing, off and we will see you again This.

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