PM Show Hr 2 | Josh Blackman on the Rulings For and Against Trump

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Professor Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law is our guest, as he often is when Supreme Court rulings come down. Today has been a particularly busy day, a number of rulings coming out. The first regarding executive power, Professor Blackman, if you would play the role of the student and first lay out the facts of the case and then the ruling, the majority opinion, and what it means. Sure. So we all learn in school there are three branches of government, right? There's the executive branch, the president. There's the legislative branch, House and the Senate, and then the judicial branch. But what you don't learn in school is actually a fourth branch, the administrative state. These are these agencies that are not created by the Constitution that sort of came into existence in the 20th century. So there's the... These acronyms, the federal trade commissions, the security exchange commissions, the federal communications commissions, all these alphabet two groups that are not really created by the Constitution, but we're just created by Congress. And they do a lot of things. They make regulations that look like laws. They can take action against you. They can impose fines. They can even try to have you get locked up. And they also act as courts. Since the 1930s, there's been this argument that these agencies are unconstitutional. But during the height of the New Deal, the Supreme Court upheld these groups. And in fact, they said the president cannot fire the heads of these departments. These are independent agencies and they're not to sign for politics. For my entire adult life, in your life, Michael, probably everyone else listened to your shows under the age of 90. This is in the law of the land. And today in a momentous ruling, six to three, the court overrules that president for 1930s and was 100 years old saying that, yes, the president is ahead of the executive branch. And yes, he can fire the heads of these unaccountable agencies. I never thought I'd let's see this day. It's a big deal. I'm sure most people don't care, but this is a really big deal for the law. And also for the way our governance posts function. I'm sorry. You said that he can. He may. He is able to. Yes, he can. Yeah, but that it should in no way surprise us, right? I mean, that doesn't surprise me. Of course, he has to be able to. That's part of the executive. That's the hierarchy. That's the structure. But the Supreme Court has said many times of the years that the president cannot. And look, here presidents, Reagan, Bush, Bush. Nixon, none of them ever tried to attempt it. He came in on day one and said, you're fired. And that's what brought this case, right? No president had the backbone, if I may, to actually try to execute this office. And he knocked the guy out or knocks her out very quickly. And now the Supreme Court agree with the president. This is a huge deal where it's that the president has this power and does not belong to Congress. That the president can fire people in his own agencies. And that's Cook? That's the first one, Slaughter, funny name the case. But Louis Slaughter got slaughtered, if that makes it easy to remember. You said in your piece for Reason magazine a few minutes ago, yet I still cannot believe I lived to see the day that Humphreys executor, the ruling, was overruled. Somewhere Justice Scalia is smiling. I love that line. Yes, sir. Yeah. Yeah, I wrote that five minutes ago. So you're right on top of the game.

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Then you said, I predicted that Elena Kagan would write Chartie, if I'm pronouncing that right? Samuel Alito still seems upset about Carpenter. What is that about? Yes. So we all have cell phones, and you maybe know this, but some people don't, that whenever you're using your smartphone, your iPhone, your iPhone, your Android phone, you're sending information to the cloud. Google, Apple, they know where you are at any point in time. So in this case, a guy was caught committing a robbery and it was a surveillance camera that had him holding his phone talking on his cell phone at the time. So the police go and they get a warrant. They ask Google, give us all the phones that were in this area where the robbery occurred with an 150 feet in this area at the time of the robbery. And they pinned it down to Mr. Chartry and they were able to find his phone. The question then is whether that is a search that a judge has signed off on or they can just get a match or just sort of approve it. And the Supreme Court said there's so much information being sent from your phone that there's a sort of expectation and privacy. And if they want to search your phone, they need to get a warrant for a judge. And this was not the proper procedure that was followed. So are they extending a Fourth Amendment protection? I guess they're not. They are. No, the court said that searching this phone is a fourth amendment violation. They need to basically get probable cause to be able to search the phone. And just having this just data that your phone was in a region requires going through the warrant process. And just so I'm clear, is this the geofencing case? Exactly. Yeah. What a geo fence is. Imagine like a virtual fence around this area, 150 foot sweep saying any phone in this area we want to find. And the courts said that's just too broad. You can't ask for everyone who walks in that area. There's a lot of information that's private that nothing with this guy rob in the bank. Ken Paxton has... won a lot of support for civil libertarians over going after big data, big technology over the issue of misusing our information, collecting it when they shouldn't, harvesting that information, selling that information, sharing it with the government, using it for their own proprietary purposes. And my understanding is he's won a lot of those cases. Yeah, this is one of these areas, Michael, where conservatives don't always line up neatly. So Justice Gorsuch on the current court is perhaps the most libertarian member on the right. And he's upset by this. The government should stop me searching all of our phones that they can't just have these drag net. You want to show a drag net, right? What's a drag net? Where they just search everyone. They have no idea who they're looking for. They just stop everyone in the street. They start frisking him down because they got to just find someone. And Gorsuch says you need more proof that this was a guy you're looking for. He can't just look at everyone's cell phone to get there to drag net. Um, by contrast, Samuel Alito, if a former prosecutor hates this stuff. He's like, what are we doing? This is, this is law enforcement done right. We got the guy, right? He was the guy that robbed the credit union. We got him. What are you guys complaining about? So there's an issue that those in the right sort of split, uh, in sort of unusual ways.

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This is a sentence based on where I believe the pulse of our folks are, and I'll save this for the next segment if you're good to stay with us. I'll have you explain this. The Chief Justice, that'd be John Roberts, the Chief Justice clearly has birthright citizenship. He will save it for the last hand down of the term, so the last ruling to be revealed. so he can rule against the president and signal to the world how non-political the court is just in time for Independence Day. Stay tuned, Professor Josh Blackman, the South Texas College of Law. Mr. Smarty Pants is our guest. It would kick me off every day to see what's going on in my country. The Michael Barry Show. And this is my damn country. I fought for this country. This is mine. The Supreme. Okay, it took me a minute. I got you. I got you. Professor Josh Blackman is our guest. Professor, I was bouncing around because I had your article pulled up, and I didn't go back to it. Let me make sure I get everything that I wanted to get to. I'm just reading from headlines I saw this morning. Court rules states can, may, are able to accept late arriving ballots. Does that opinion surprise you? You know, yes and no. We saw what happened in Los Angeles with the mayor's race and then with Spencer. The law in many states is that so long as a ballot is mailed, that is postmarked before election night closes. It can then be received virtually at any time and counted later. You know, I think Trump and others have said there's a risk of fraud that when these ballots are arriving late, who knows it the postmark's legitimate, who knows where it came from. But that sort of was secondary. The question is whether federal law prohibits a state from doing this on this case, Michael came from Mississippi. Not a blue state, bro, one of the red estates in a nation. And believe it or not, Mississippi, argue that, yes, we want to accept these late arriving ballots. It's maybe not well known, but there are many Republicans who vote by mail, senior citizens and others, who tend to become a conservative. So this is not a... right left issues you might think. But the case split basically five four. Amy Coney Barrett wrote the opinion for the court saying that these later writing ballots can be counted in the federal law. And you have in dissent, Thomas Samuel Alito, Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh. So of course, the chief votes with the left. He always does these sorts of case. But Amy Coney Barrett went along with it. And she said that this federal law does not permit. or requires you to count these later after ballots. So in a 6-3 court, which is what we've hoped and presumed this would be, and in some cases has been, in a 6-3 court, we can count on John Roberts as often as not to side with the left, giving us a 5-4 majority, and then when they peel Amy Coney Barrett away, here's where we end up. That's just very, very...

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Very disappointing. Just to be clear, you believe birthright citizenship will be the last case they hand down, and you believe that John Roberts will enable it, will preserve it. Exactly. Yeah, that's tomorrow. So Tuesday morning, around 9 o'clock Texas time, there are four remaining cases. I can go through them pretty quickly. The first is an election case. Actually, we'll go reverse order. The first case is coming down about transgender sports, and this is one that, you know, how is this an issue, about whether biological males are allowed to participate in female athletics, both high school and college. And I think for this one, Brett Kavanaugh will have the majority opinion. He's a former basketball coach. He coached his girls' high school basketball team. I am very confident that he rules in favor of the... traditional understanding of female sports and this one will not be a surprise uh this is an 80 20 issue as trump might say that this is an issue that i still can't be major to the supreme court but you know here we are yeah the first one one second professor um it it's one of those things that that you don't expect to ever have to argue it's sort of like i don't know if you're your your kids may beginning to the age now where they ask you why something is the case And suddenly you realize you take it to be the case. You don't even have an argument because it's so obvious that it is the case that you've never had to argue. Why are leaves green? Well, there's the chlorophyll or something I learned. And then you have to go back and start digging. I think for most of us, this is an argument we never expected to have to make. It's to the point of absurdity. Was there a discussion in there as to how sex, Professor Lino Gralia hated the word gender, he said that was pronounced, as to how sex would be determined if there is a dispute? Because there are cases where this has come up in the Olympics. You know, I think in most of these jurisdictions like California, otherwise it's self-attesting. In other words, you are what you say you are. That can change one day to the next. So I don't think they're requiring any sort of like the Olympics, certain amount of hormone levels. They're not requiring certain kind of surgery. It's basically each school district can decide for itself what it wants to do. Well, oh, I see. So. All right. So just to make clear, everyone understands. The Supreme Court did not say boys may not participate in girls' athletics. Oh, this wasn't decided yet. No, this is a tomorrow case. Oh, okay, okay. I thought that's what we did have a ruling. Okay. I cut you off. What were the other cases that have been handed down? Okay, well, we'll hand it down. Today we have the two cases about Trump firing people. We have a case that the geo-fence, the search warrants. Um, and the, and the other case today, uh, was the later writing ballot. Those are the four cases today. And we have another four for tomorrow to the transgender case. Uh, there's an election case about, uh, how much money you could spend on, you know, a funding political candidates. Not a huge case, but important. Uh, but the big one, the one that everyone cares about is birthright citizenship. And this will be the last one of the day and the last one of the term.

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And the justice will get the heck out of town right after that one. And the way they release it is the chief justice always goes last. So he'll announce his case. He'll feel good about himself for the immigrants. And they'll get out of Dodge. And you see that as a five four? I don't know if it's 5-4. This one actually might be 6.3. It could be 7-2. It might be 8-1. I don't know. This is one where, I mean, I'm pretty sure Trump loses. He might even lose 9-0, unlikely. But the problem for Trump is that he was trying to change something that's been set. for almost 100 years. And a lot of people sort of rely on this. So I just didn't think you ever had a shot in the first place, but I have to admit the arguments have gotten stronger. And they've actually done a decent job trying to persuade the court of this one, but I just don't think it's going to fly. Is the argument legal or is the argument more practical? Um,

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I think it's both. I think the, if we were sitting here in the 1860s arguing about this, I think it would be a much closer case. But given all that's come since then, I think it's very hard to serve overrule. It's one of these frustrating things, you know, Louisiana did. actually redo their congressional election because the argument, but the argument from the left was, well, even if y'all win, it's too late. So let's just go ahead and have this bad election in the congressional district that spans the middle of the country and stretches out, you know, razor thin to preserve a black majority, which is the worst form of racial gerrymandering. But in fact, that's what the governor. Jeff Landry did do, to his credit. He said, look, it's going to be uncomfortable, but we are, in fact, going to hold off on that. We'll hold the rest of the elections. And that's what it feels like we're doing here. It is awful nice of that smart alecky fella. Mr. Marco Barry. He's one of them joke crackers. Ray Breyer's is the pipe man. He owns Pipeyard Inc. And they buy and sell pipe all day long. And I am shocked how much business we've been able to send him across the country. Entire pipelines going across three different states where they need to get the pipe pulled out. He's like, I'll pull the pipe out, I'll sell the pipe. People buying pipe, people selling pipe. The people that buy pipe are environmental managers, pipeline project managers, somebody that's got an abandoned pipeline that's been removed. They want... The Pipyard Inc. Compliance and Regulatory folks. I want to get those pipes out of there. Selling pipe, folks that need carbon steel pipe, the Pipyard Inc. stocks everything you need, any kind of pipe. There is stuff that people call him for, industrial stuff, that he doesn't even have, and he tracks it down. He's working his phone, and his team is working their phones all day long. He's got a yard, they've got pipe. But... They are working the phones to get stuff for people all day long. 409-788 pipe. 409-78 pipe. Turns out, at least according to my urologist, that all that talk about taking testosterone is bad for your prostate. That was based on one study that's been debunked. But you know what? Don't trust me. Do your own reading. Cross-reference. Learn more. Go to fixmylowt.com. That's synergenics. That's who I use for my testosterone replacement. It makes me energetic. It makes me happy. I lost some belly fat out of it, which was really nice. And yes, it does that too. Fixmylote.com. You paid your insurance premiums, hoping that you would never get fire, smoke, damage, water damage, hail damage, hell, we have so many. storms and hurricanes come through here. And the national carrier now doesn't want you, doesn't want to pay you.

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Chad T. Wilson law firm fights so that you do. He is the lawyer that will fight to get you covered. Go to claimdenied.com or email me and I'll connect you. Claimdenied.com. So I don't know if you have this raging conversation at work or whatever, but we do in our workplace. Only three of us work out of the studio. That's me. Ramon Robles is across the glass for me. He's the king of ding because all he does is ding. And fast. He fasted for over 40 days. He still only eats two eggs, six ounces of raw meat, ground beef, and what half a tablespoon of heavy whipping cream and a lot of water and coffee? No coffee? Earl Gray. Why aren't you doing coffee? Really? You lost your craving for coffee? I don't want to ask about your sex life because you've changed. My God. Okay. Well, anyway, please don't interrupt. So you got me and Ramon across the glass. And then down the hall is Chad Nakanishi. He's the executive director. We don't bother him. And we hope he doesn't bother us because if he comes in, it means we're in trouble. We've done something wrong. He keeps the trains running on time. Now, during the summer, we have two more of our team downstairs, and that is Ramon's kids, and they're in for the summer. That's July Augustus and Oliver McCray. If you're a Lonesome Dove fan, you'll know where those names come from. So Jim Mud, who's our creative director, and Darrell Kunda, who doesn't get a title yet. He has to earn it. How long has he been with us now? Three years? Yeah, he's not ready for a title yet. He's got a few more years. Anyway, so they don't work in the studio, but we have a raging... email thread going through the day. And that is, hey, on this story, what do we know about this? And each person is doing their own research and asking people's opinions and doing different things and finding more audio clips that, okay, well, this person said that, well, this is what I said. But we have a raging conversation on our show with regard to Van Halen. And Ramon, make sure I assess you correctly. So Van Halen is Jim Mudd's favorite band. No questions asked. Okay, that's fine. That part is fine. Ramon, would you say you really like Van Halen? But would you say you really like him on the, I mean, like, you're really a Beatles guy, right? And maybe Led Zeppelin would be your next tier. Where would you put Van Halen in the rankings? 11? Okay. Like, who would Van Halen be behind that we would, let me give you some example. Rush, would they be behind Rush? No, you're not a big Rush fan. Okay. Great. Take the one band that every good conservative, really libertarian likes and just make it seem like they're terrible. That's a great idea. Real on brand. Okay, all right. Who would be a band that would be ahead of them that would show you don't like them as much as the next guy?

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Aerosmith. Okay, you'd put Aerosmith above Van Halen. All right. Who else? Okay. We got a second here. How much time we got in this table? Okay, I'll be fast. All right. Let's just go ahead and rank them right now. All right. Let's start with number one. We've got the Beatles. All right. Next. You two at two. Okay. Next. Led Zeppelin. All right. Pink Floyd. Stones at five. All right. Six. Come on. Oh, you don't like Skinner that much. But I appreciate you saying it. All right. That's my all-time favorite band. All right. Okay. Arrow Smith. The band doesn't even rank. Okay. All right. All right. Hold on. Eight. We got ACDC. I got to put that. I got to write all this. I'm the stenographer here. Right. Next. Yeah. Van Morrison. Okay. All right. Okay. Anybody on this list? It's not a raging, raging recovering alcoholic. All right. Next. That puts us at number 10. Oh, you put Van Helen at 10 then, okay. You said there were 11, but that was before I, okay. Let's, the who? You put the who above Van Halen? Okay. So, and then, all right, so at 11, you got Van Halen. If anybody else wants to send me your list, feel free. So our raging discussion is, Van Halen versus Van Hagar. I even hate the term Van Hagar. I hate it. I despise it. But you have to understand that there's a period in my life. Some of you will appreciate this. Some of you won't. So I was not a sophisticated music connoisseur. I'm not today. But I just liked what I liked when I was growing up. And I graduated high school in 89. So this will kind of, you can pace where you were at that time. You might have been having kids in 89. You might have had grandkids in 89, whatever you do. But that'll give you a sense of where I was. I didn't really care for the 80s music at all. I didn't know who you too was until Curtis Abear, a friend of mine. And his buddy, I can't remember his buddy, it was a black guy. They both were multi. They played four sports for Portnacious Groves. But anyway, they were going to a U2 concert to see the Joshua Tree. I guess they were playing in support of the Joshua Tree. And I didn't really know much about, I never heard of this band, but they were just crazy over this band. Like they were the biggest thing ever. I now realize U2 is way bigger than I realized. But what I listened to was classic country and a little, and some classic rock. And I loved Skinner and the band. So then into the 90s, I call that my lost decade, kind of like the Japanese, for different reasons. There's was high interest rates and inflation. But. For me, I was going to college and then law school and then baby lawyer and then opening my real estate company. So all I did was work or study. And when I was in school, I was working multiple jobs. So I didn't have a chance. I didn't watch Letterman. I didn't listen to music. So this whole transition to Sammy Hagar coming in, I never even paid attention to it. And then people were telling me later how great.

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you know, the Hagar era of Van Halen was, and I was disturbed because I loved, loved, loved, loved David Lee Roth. Now, some of you out there are doing that thing that irritates me more than anything else. How you seen him now? No. I haven't seen Abraham Lincoln lately either. If you're a Lincoln fan, I'm not a big Lincoln fan, but if you're a Lincoln fan, are you bothered that he's in a cat? I don't understand that point. But anyway. So I don't know if you're a David Lee Roth in Van Halen fan or a Sammy Hagar in Van Halen fan. I will post to Facebook. I have three different pages, not my fault. Long story. They kept kicking me off and I'd start a new page and then they'd put that old page back up by that time I've moved on. Anyway, this page I started maybe a year ago. It has about 80,000 followers. It's growing, but it's not as big as the others. I'm going to post this. I am just curious of our audience if you will tell me a couple of things. Who is not on that list that you'd like to see on that list for you? If you want to send me your top 10, it's hard to do. It's hard to pick a top 10. I would have taken you too off and put the band in there, and we could have spent some more time on some other stuff. I'm just glad you just didn't put Boston in there. But one of the things I struggle with in life is why the Democrats are evil. How socialism can keep spreading. How people can be stupid enough to believe the promises of socialism, right? It's a cognitive dissonance. You get screwed over by the government day in and day out, and then people run to be in the government to give you free stuff when you already know they're not going to do it because you've been promised it year after year. It's like a seller-dweller coach going, but this year's the one. You got the last draft pig and you were last last year. You have no new people and you've lost your one star. Anyway, so David Lee Roth Van Halen is my Van Halen. The rest of purpose, your shared mission, your love of Mr. Michael Bari Weiss. I kind of feel like Rush Limbaugh when he wanted to talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers or his G5 or Cape Girardeau or his dad or golf. And he used to talk about how the messages would come in. And people were talking like that. Talk about Nancy Pelosi. Talk about Bill Clinton. And Trump on Trump, I mean Trump, Russia understood that if that's all you ever talk about, you necessarily limit size of the audience. And if you want, who was the David, the famous pastor? who said you can't save souls if the church is empty. Now, I know evangelicals like myself would say you don't need people to come to church to save souls. But the point was well taken. David Ogilvie, yeah, how'd you know that? Oh, you looked it up, okay. Yeah, Ogilvy's the one who said that. I'm impressed you found that. Okay. But the point is.

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Well, let me tell you, Rabbit Trail. Paul Johnson has a book out. Paul Johnson is one of my favorite historians. He may be my favorite historian. He has a book on the life of Jesus Christ. And the smart ass in a group would say, yeah, I read that. It's called the Bible. Right. But there are a lot of sources that he draws upon. In addition to the Bible, and what I love about this is that most people who write about Christ are not believers. Paul Johnson is. So if you want to expand your Bible study, this is really a deeper study of Christ the man. And Paul Johnson is such a wonderful, wonderful writer, but more importantly, a meticulous researcher and thinker. He's a true intellectual. If you read the book and you enjoy it and you want some more references, I will give you references of books he's written, one of which is a real breezy read called intellectuals. And he takes about 10 to 15 of the great. liberal quote unquote intellectuals and shows you how in their personal lives they lived the opposite of what they preached. And that's Rousseau. It's Karl Marx. You'll really enjoy that. But if you're looking for, if you have read your Bible multiple times, you've done Bible study from the time you were in middle school. And you want some supplemental materials. It's a good read. I don't want to say it's a fun read because that Paul Johnson's a little more turgid. It's a little more academic. But it reads in a biographical sense. And I think you will come to gain a different understanding of Christ. I know I did. It's a wonderful, wonderful book. But he includes fun little details, like John and James were brothers, who Christ gave the name, the Sons of Thunder. Obviously, he didn't use the word Sons of Thunder. He didn't speak English. I think it was Aramaic, but that's your call. He also makes an interesting point. that what Christ looked like, because this is apparently very important to some people, especially non-white people, that you think that Christ isn't white. And I guess it's upsetting to them that they see white people put a picture on their wall of Jesus. And he looks like... Eric Stoltz in Pulp Fiction. You remember the guy who was selling Vincent Vega, John Travolta, the heroin, and then Uma Thurman, ODs, and he has to stab her with the Narcan or whatever it was. Well, it upsets non-white people that we, some, anyway, that we portray Jesus as light skin and looking like us.

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I don't know that it matters, but he gets into the fact that there is no definitive eyewitness account. I went further into this than I expected, but he points out that what we're reading about Christ is 50 years after his birth. And so we're going by... In some cases, I witnessed testimony, but in some cases, hearsay. And so he points out where things line up and where they don't. And again, he's a believer. He's not trying to disprove the Bible. He's offering a deep study into the life of Christ, which is separate and aside from the Bible, but that's, of course, the primary source. In any case, What I feel like I have to say in all honesty is that after, I don't know, what is it, six years now of working with Jim Mud, I like disagreement. I enjoy it. I think it's fun. I don't want to watch a preseason football game because nobody cares to win. To me, it is the scrape, the scrap, the battle, the competition, the joust, the repartee. That's the fun part. I was a high school and college debater. I like the idea of taking a position and then trying to win it and then flipping and trying to win the other side. I like the intellectual rigor of doing that. As the great Bum Phillips said, some people attribute this to Don Shula, but I choose to attribute it to Bum Phillips. he said of Don Shula, another coach, how great a coach he was. He said he can take his and beat your own. And he can take your own and beat his in. In other words, he can pick either team that's going to play in the game and coach that team and that team will win. Doesn't matter if they're the more or less. But I must say that after all these years, Jim has worn me down. And I'm not going to say I like Sammy Hagar in Van Halen better than David Lee Roth because that will be blasted me and I won't do it. But I am going to say I've come to appreciate Sammy Hagar's voice. By the time I tuned into Sammy Hagar, it was 15 years ago and his voice was busted. I never knew what a beautiful, malefluous voice Sammy Hagar had. And what a great contribution he made to Van Halen. So first and last time I was ever going to say it. So don't ask me to repeat it.

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