The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report with Ryan Hite.
Welcome, welcome. Welcome to the Pro America Report. This is Ryan Hite, filling in here for Mr. Ed Martin, the first and last segments today. Glad to be stepping in with you and talking about a few things that are happening That are very important. We’ve got a lot going on.
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But let me let me just dive right in here. Let’s get to it, because there’s several different topics I want to talk about and and frankly, I, I mean, I I almost had a hard time deciding what it was that we needed to know today. What you need to know, because there’s so much going on, you know, we could talk about.
I saw if you didn’t this week, there’s a law passed in Louisiana. They made news. Louisiana has passed a law that mandates the 10 Commandments be displayed on the walls of every public school classroom, including elementary schools, middle and high schools, all public college classrooms. Good for them. Good for them. And I know that of course it was, you know. Ohh. The law. This law defies a 1980 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a similar law in Kentucky. I’m sure it will be challenged in court. But if we had more politicians who agreed with Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, we’d have a more fun time in America. In my opinion, his response to that? I can’t wait to be sued. So that is the whole purpose. This is a a very interesting point.
Now, first of all, may I please say, how about we should teach The 10 Commandments in classrooms again, and not just hanging on the wall, huh? There’s an idea, a novel idea that in fact will return us. But this is a very interesting question that’s being posed here.
And they’ve been rather open about this. The purpose of the law is to challenge Supreme Court precedent on the 1st amendment, specifically regarding the Establishment Clause, which for the last 50 years or so has been used to essentially get rid of all formal recognition of a religion from America’s public schools now.
This has absolutely devastated our culture, our young people, our nation. You know it. I know it. It’s been terrible. But this law seems very sufficient to be the vehicle for challenging that bad precedent. And if we know anything about this current Supreme Court, they’re OK with going back and toppling, quote, unquote Long held precedents. And of course, I’m thinking of the so-called right to abortion, which you would not find in our Constitution, only in the terrible precedent and terrible Supreme Court opinion of 1973 Roe V Wade, which is now no longer a Supreme Court opinion. It’s been overturned, or I should say, precedent, Supreme Court precedent. It’s been overturned. So this is a very good strategy and and you know what?
It’s really what brings me into why this is so important because The Supreme Court, as we keep getting opinions, opinions, opinions from the 2024 Supreme Court term ending this 2023 to 24 Supreme Court, we’ve had kind of a mixed bag. It’s mostly been good but boy we’ve had to do a lot of watching. There’s been some good stuff on the Second Amendment. They struck down the bump stock ban which you know whether you care about Stocks and firearms or not, this is a smack to the federal agencies, too. To the ATF, going outside their boundaries. Good, good for the court. That was last week that the bump stock ban ruling came down, or I should say the ban on the ban. What do we call it the strike down of the ban? That was good.
But this week, the Supreme Court ruled in another one yesterday, six to three, U.S. citizens do not have a Constitutional right to guarantee their non-citizen spouse admittance to the country. Well, that’s definitely something that President Joe Biden just tried to get rid, or, or solidify in an executive order this week. We talked about that quite a bit and and boy is it a big one. So that certainly seems well that rebuke of the immigration process seems to suggest that Biden’s border order is absolutely going to be marked as unconstitutional very, very quickly, because it absolutely goes against this precedent.
But then, of course, there’s, you know, you go into another one, the Supreme Court upheld The use of Mifepristone the I think it’s Mifepristone. Mifepristone. Yeah. It’s mifepristone, the abortion drug that the FDA fast tracked. There’s a lot of questions surrounding that one but in that court case even though I’m disappointed that the abortion pill was allowed to continue. It also bears the reminder in that case you look at it, the reason it got shut down, it wasn’t on the merits of whether or not the FDA did or didn’t do their job, or if it fast tracked something or any of that. It was that the the petitioners did not have standing.
They did not accurately represent how they were here in court representing someone whose rights . You know, had received bodily injury or or their rights had been harmed by this thing. There’s a very specific way that you have to get to things and and that’s the thing in the front of the Supreme Court. You have to ask the right question in the right way to get the results that we’re looking for.
And that is what makes me so excited. You know, we we did not do that with this challenge to the abortion pill that the FDA’s fast track. Now, that doesn’t mean that’s dead. It is far from dead. It’s just very sad that something that kicked off, what a year and a half ago. I think it was just five or six months after the Dobbs V Jackson decision struck down Roe V Wade precedent in 2022. That’s when this case kicked off – boy, it took a while.
It’s sad that it took so long in such effort to get here for us to learn a lesson. Man, we gotta go at this a different way. We have to ask this question differently. The different people have to ask the question that’s so important. The folks who brought Dobbs V Jackson all the way up to the Supreme Court, they did an excellent job challenging the legal framework of Roe V Wade itself. They asked the right question. They asked it in the right way. They brought the right people to ask the question. They did. Well, that’s a lesson for all of us. So.
Looking at this 10 Commandments case, seeing that this is really kind of being set up to challenge a bad precedent that makes me excited to see the right uniting, coalescing around the understanding of how we have to get to the court, how we have to get in front of the Court, who has to get in front of the court, what we’re going to ask.
Because if there’s bad precedent to be struck down and I’ll remind you in the precedent or in the Dobbs V Jackson decision tossing out Roe V Wade, Clarence Thomas in his concurring jointly opinion made clear. Boy, bring it on. He is ready to absolutely tear in to some of the things now, whether you agree with the Court, what ultimately the result of what the court decided or not,
the way in which the Supreme Court says something is so incredibly important.
What it leaves the door open to, or what. It shuts it too. And that is something that we have got to take a look at, even if there’s a good thing that is now. Protected or banned in law in some other area. That doesn’t mean that it ought to be in a federal precedent or considered by it’s just it. It is a very complex. Nuanced thing that we must look at this issue of judicial or I should say, precedent in jurisprudence in America that’s incredibly important to look at.
And we have often done a bad job as the right at just oversimplifying things, making it black or white instead of understanding the basics like we’re seeing here. We gotta bring the right question in the right way with the right petitioners and other things too, but those are three biggies and you do it the wrong way. You’re going to get told no, you’re not going to get the answer you want. Even if it’s technically a morally right answer, we have to do this the right way.
It’s a reminder for all of us that this is a system. This Republic, this balanced constitutionally separated powers, the three branches of government.
The system is so incredibly important when it comes to our civil government. What has been set up and given to us.
That is the very system that’s being broken and attacked from the inside out, from a bloated executive branch, from activist judges over the years, from a do-nothing Congress, from an overarching presidency, we have.
The system itself has been upended and attacked and shredded and destroyed. And boy, we have got to get back to it. So you and I need to understand not just the rights and wrongs of each issue, but also the system that we ought to preserve the system that we ought to respect, where we are and how we need to get back where we need to get back to and how we get there.
So seeing this 10 Commandments law, understanding where we’re coming from and and potentially the use of it, why it’s being put through I I think that’s exciting because that shows to me an understanding on the right. This is what I want you to see. What I want you to understand, that this, you know? Yes, we. Yes, we do want. It’s a good law. In fact that like I said, we should go further. We should teach the 10 commandments. And this isn’t even a question of, you know, of Christianity. I mean, this is the importance of the 10 commandments, not just religiously, but you want to talk about Western philosophy. The the legal precedent of Western civilization. In fact, farther back than that, the American founding.
Boy, we, you know, it is no wonder these things are incredibly important that the 10 Commandments is incredibly important. The history that it plays in legal foundations. Of the West is incredibly important, but we are gonna have to take on teachers unions, the entire higher education system. It has absolutely come against and created this No, no, that these things don’t belong. You and I know that it does. So that issue is incredibly important. Good for Louisiana, but really good for Louisiana in understanding this gives us, this is our vehicle, our opportunity to challenge a bad precedent, get it struck down and have a whole new realm of flexibility state to state. Boy isn’t that exciting. So keep an eye on the Supreme Court. That’s what you need to know. There’s a lot going on. There’s a lot of good, there’s a lot of mixed, but we have got to be vigilant. Keep an eye on it.
Come on back on the Pro America Report here after the break, we’ll dive into some guests. I’ll be back to wrap us up. Don’t go away after the break. You don’t want to miss out Pro America Report. We’ll be right back.
