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Welcome. Welcome to the Pro America Report. This is Ryan Hite. We are filling in today for Ed Martin. Glad to be with you. Thank you for letting me join you. This is a great day for America. A great day for our Constitution. And a happy Monday all around and we will get into that in just one second.
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But we’ve got a great show ahead today. Ed actually was able to interview two wonderful guests. Looking forward to hearing from them. Nathaniel Palmer, James Harrison. We’ve got some great stuff coming up here. Of course. Lawfare, a topic we talked about, James, he’s going to dive into that with us in a different way, a different direction today. And then also Nathaniel Palmer is actually the chief architect for some of The most complex digital initiatives across the country and government and private industry. We’re gonna talk about AI and I think that’s gonna be a really fascinating discussion. I’m looking forward to hearing it. Hope that you are too, and you’ll stick around for it.
But before we get into the rest of all the show today, it’s time for the WYNK right up front here, the beginning segment of our show. The what you need to know and what you need to know today is, like I said, it is a great day for America. It’s a great day for the Constitution.
What you need to know is the Supreme Court has restored order before the 2024 elections. That is what has happened. I’ll give you a brief recap. You’ve seen the news, Colorado and now Illinois and Maine and several other states Were considering these three states primarily, though leading off with Colorado had banned Donald Trump, or attempted to. Attempted to ban Donald Trump from their ballots, saying that he was disqualified from appearing on the ballots on the basis of his being an insurrectionist. Going to the 14th amendment there and trying to give this legal argument, which had a lot of holes the whole time, I have to tell you. Many people a lot of folks on the left said that ohh this was a strong argument. I remember David French, the so-called conservative, had a big opinion editorial back in January. You know, the strong legal case For disqualifying Trump.
Well. It turns out, as many of us knew all along and many people like Ed and a lot of the others in the Phyllis Schlafly world were saying that’s not such a strong case. In fact, it’s a pretty weak case. It’s a pretty terribly weak case, and it’s gonna get smacked down.
Well, it got smacked down. Today, the Supreme Court released a unanimous Decision, 9 to 0 unanimous. I believe the official term is per curiam which is essentially. This is a judgment. The here’s your little legalese Speak. The per curiam is a judgment of the court by the court, meaning that not one judge signed it or or issued the order the order was issued by the entire court, so Justice Amy Coney Barrett gave a concurring judgment in which she gave some extra thoughts, agreeing with the judgment. But here are my extra thoughts. And then the three leftist judges, Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson, gave a kind of concurring opinion. We concur with the judgment, but we don’t like what everyone said. Here’s our thoughts. But.
But here’s what you need to know. The reality is. As much. As you could try to go into the concurring agreement from these three leftist judges as much as the liberal media, or though I shouldn’t say liberal, the leftist media, the fake news media, and all of the left is gonna try to pick this apart and show well, here’s what it really means. The the unanimity, is that the word? unanimity, the. The unanimous nature of this decision, the unity in which the court agreed on the judgment Is absolutely stunning, absolutely stunning and and here it is and and I’ll pull it up here and we’ll link to it both on social media and in the show notes. You’ll be able to get to it because it’s not that long, it’s worth reading. And of course, Phyllis Schlafly Eagles the day job, that Ed and I both work for, we put out a statement about this earlier that kind of breaks it all down, but I mean. This is a huge victory for justice, federalism, free elections for everything.
Because what was going on with with state officials and state courts like the state Supreme Court of Colorado trying to boot Trump from the ballot. This this is a smack against the federalist principles. This division of state and federalism. That we have in America, it’s really a very, again flimsy argument. It kind of figured it was going to be struck down. And sure enough, here it is. But I mean, that’s essentially what it is that because the this is directly from the opinion this morning Trump V Anderson in the full name of the case, Donald J. Donald J Trump V Norma Anderson ET al. This is Trump V. Anderson, the decision this morning.
Because the Constitution makes Congress rather than the states responsible for enforcing Section 3 against federal office holders and candidates, we reverse and what they’re saying is we reverse Colorado’s removal of Trump from the ballot. That’s exactly what has happened here. That’s what’s going on. This was a very. Very sound and resounding constitutional smackdown of what Colorado had done of this argument that the left has been making that Trump is obviously an insurrectionist, even though of course. This doesn’t pass the smell test on a basic level for me, and it shouldn’t for you either. He hasn’t been convicted of an insurrection charge, let alone even charged with an insurrection. Anything related. He’s been charged with some, you know, federal documents issues and civil issues, but nothing having to do with insurrection. So claiming and crowing that we have this and it was just it was it. It was flimsy. And faulty to begin with.
But this is a huge win for order. The Supreme Court has restored order.
I know a lot of very, very smart legal analysts and constitutional analysts are saying that same thing. This Was chaos that the left is trying to impose by just Willy nilly removing candidates from the ballot. One of the most obvious attempts at interfering with and meddling in an election removing people from the ballot. I mean, this is even stuff that that this the dictators that the left would like to try to, you know, conflate. Trump with, these dictators, you know Vladimir Putin and the like. They don’t even just remove people from the ballot, I mean, this is heavy-handed stuff. This is pretty wild. What they were trying to get away with and it has been smacked down and and resoundingly so even by three very leftist Supreme Court justices who you and I don’t agree with on very much. This is a big, big, big deal.
And I think that this is very telling. Because. This this whole thing that we’ve been talking about, Section 5 of the 14th amendment that you know, what is this? Congress shall have the power to enforce by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article that we’re talking about a very interesting historical discussion that I think we’ve we’ve gotten into a little bit here on the Pro America Report, but it really is pretty fascinating when you get into it. You’re looking at this part of the 14th Amendment that was written to prevent. Confederate generals from taking power and office holding it at that Time it really is interesting to look back and see this historical precedent. Anything that we’ve dealt with in America before about, you know, around rebellion and insurrection and then what they’re trying to equate it to it. It really is incredible. And and it it just kind of brings it down to the fact that we’re more politically divided than ever before in this country. And and I mean this is no more Evident than in another place.
Well, let me let me draw one more conclusion for you here. As we look across this political division. You know, so many places we’re seeing this huge delivery of delegates in the GOP primary process for Trump. It just happened this weekend, too. They were caucuses in Idaho, Missouri had their caucus. Super Tuesday, obviously is coming up this week, and there’s gonna be tons 800 and something. Delegates of the 1200 threshold needed for the Republican nominee to win the process are going to be delivered tomorrow on Super Tuesday results. This is absolutely incredible when you see that Donald Trump is just steamrolling the Republican primary process, that’s really incredible considering this guy is supposed to be like the most hated man in America or the most dangerous man in America that is not seen that way by a Wild majority of the Republican Party of half of the country. I I don’t think that the you know, half of the country are fooled by some enamoring public figure. This is a resounding defeat of that narrative in my mind. And I think that you should take it that way as Well.
But as he is being delivered these resounding victories, the District of Columbia, which isn’t a state, thank goodness, it’s not supposed to be, the seat of federal power wasn’t supposed to be a state equal with all the other states, but the District of Columbia had their caucuses this weekend or their primary, and Nikki Haley won. This is the only thing that she has won is the District of Columbia, So far. The swamp is going to protect their own the system will protect itself, although there she only managed to get a 60 something percent lead. So it still the swamp is going to protect itself.
I think that this you combine it with all of the the absolutely tainted jury pool we’ve seen in the January 6th process and all of the rest of the legal professors, everyone crowing about this removal of Trump from the ballot and the disqualification. It all comes back to the elites are protecting themselves and we must protect we the people From them, that’s it. That’s what you need to know.
Today is a banner day for the Constitution. Thank you to the Supreme Court for restoring order before the 2024 elections.
Come on back. We got a lot after the break. Don’t forget. Go to proamericareport.com. PhyllisSchlafly.com. And we will see you back here on the Pro America Report in just a moment.
