The SCOTUS CRASH OUT NERD OUT PT. 2

[00:00:00]All right, y'all. Welcome to part two of the Supreme Court.

[00:00:04]Crash out. Nerd out.

[00:00:08]Y'all listen.

[00:00:10]We We really fa to nerd out. Now, please forgive me cuz I'm a little bit distracted. I do have another screen playing here trying to keep up with the uh the FIFA World Cup. Now, this was recorded for you two weeks ago after the hardest weekend for anybody melanated existed where Capu, Brazil, and Mexico all got knocked out. There's no more African teams.

[00:00:49]And well, let me finish this statement.

[00:00:52]African teams that the president would not allow their supporters to get their visas from. But there is Morocco and Egypt like and like my boy show Baraka says it's probably because the president don't know they in Africa now. Anyway, here's where we are. Uh, and today, uh, the US is playing since I'm I've been whittleled down to cheering for our own team since that. There you go. Gone. Anyway, I might be a little distracted. Uh, but I'm going to be a professional here and do my job. Okay. You know, speaking of which, I'm going to call myself on this.

[00:01:35]Looks like Portugal and Spain are still at 00, which is pretty crazy. I am going to I'm going to stop it. Okay, I apologize for all that, but keep this in, Matt, cuz it's funny. Anyway, today we are going to finish discussing the Supreme Court. We going to talk about some really nerdy terms that I'm pretty sure you actually will understand because that's the premise of the show. If you understand hood, you understand politics.

[00:02:04]We're going to talk about the unitary executive theory. We're going to talk about Humphrey's executive. and really what's going on with the trends of it all and then originalism.

[00:02:19]I'm telling [music] y'all, we about to nerd out cuz All right, politics.

[00:02:32][music] All right, now Again, quick and dirty reminder. The Supreme Court gets a docket in the beginning of their season, if you will, where they get to decide what cases they going to let go to trial, what cases they going to see, and what cases, like I said, that they like, look, this should go down to lower courts. This then they get to do a quick one. Remember one I get to talk about where they get to say, "Look, we just going to decide this. This what we think. We're not going to discuss.

[00:03:06]We're not going to let this go to trial.

[00:03:08]This is just what we think about this case. Like there's the quick and dirty ones and then there's the ones that they actually have to see oral arguments for.

[00:03:17]And again, remember the Supreme Court often times isn't necessarily concerned with the case itself, but what the case implies. They're the but whatifs. You are they supposed to poke holes at somebody's position to decide whether you got standing, right? meaning, are you the one that can even bring this to us in the first place? Two, is there precedence? Meaning, has this already been decided? And I don't even know why you asking us this.

[00:03:47]And then three, is it constitutional?

[00:03:50]And that's at the end of the day, that's what they're trying to figure out. Is this constitutional? Is this within your power? Is this under the power of Congress? Right? So, that's all those things. So, they get these list of cases and they decide which ones they going to see or not see.

[00:04:04]Not see. I apologize. Um, and the three ones that they ended their season with that they was like, "All right, these are the doozies. We need to talk about these is trans women in sports, specifically in high school sports, the president's ability to fire people at the Federal Trade Commission, which is an institution put together by the Congress, and then finally, like we talked about last week, birthright citizenship.

[00:04:33]So, let's go ahead and get into it. But we going we going to start with the uh with the ruling about trans athletes.

[00:04:39]Now there has to be a complaintive, right? So somebody got to have the beef.

[00:04:44]Like we can't just like just shout out, you know what? I don't think this fair, [ __ ] No, somebody got to actual have an actual case. And that person needs to continually believe that they are being wronged and that there is a law that is being overlooked or one that we have not discussed yet. Does that make sense?

[00:05:06]Which brings me already to the concept of originalism, which is a theory about how to understand the constitution. Now, [ __ ] stay with me. Okay? Now, let's let's let's do let's do some hip-hop, some some rock and roll, and some street some street stuff. Listen, the OG's got a rule about what a gangster is. [ __ ] don't talk. You understand what I'm saying? We cripping.

[00:05:32]There's nobody bigger than the program.

[00:05:35][ __ ] don't snitch. This is what it means to be cripping. This is what it means to be a gangbanger. And then there's a new generation. Look, let's use the TV mafia ones. The OG's, they ain't like no John Gotti. He too flashy.

[00:05:48]You bringing too much. The you gota remember the stance of the mafia was that there is no mafia. What are you talking about? Then the other was like, "Yeah, [ __ ] I'M A BOSS. WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT? I'M A COPO NIGGA." RIGHT.

[00:06:00]So they would be like, "Oh, that's not G.

[00:06:04]You not you're not supposed to do that."

[00:06:05]Like, but but the younglings got these like new rules because they live in a new system. Oh, gee. Now, I think it's a little weird, especially when we go back to the concept of the uh of Poo Shisty when he robbed he robbed Gucci to get out of his contract. [ __ ] pulled out the chopper, had the stick on him, and they filmed it like he recorded the whole [ __ ] like it's going to stand up in court like, "Hey, is he out of his 360?" Yes, this [ __ ] out of his 360. My [ __ ] the man is under duress because you have an automatic weapon and it's on camera.

[00:06:41][ __ ] you filmed I don't know why you thought this would stand up. Like, what sort of was this supposed to be evidence that he actually said it? My boy, you filmed it and the man saying it is obviously under duress. Now, listen, I'm not in their world no more. But if I were an originalist, I'd have been like, "That's a violation.

[00:07:05]You need to get DPD. What the hell you got a camera for, [ __ ] What is you doing? Right.

[00:07:12]Them G's think it's weird that you got any friends from the other side. Like if you a B, you ain't supposed to have not a single C friend. Them young [ __ ] are like, we getting money.

[00:07:24]I don't like he I respect his, he respect mine. We'll figure it out. We could do it on like a case by case situation. They willing to look at it as a case by case.

[00:07:37]They understand like Nipy say you only repping where your mama pay rent. Like I get it. You supposed to be over there.

[00:07:43]I'm supposed to be over there. You repping your section. I'm repping my section. It's it's families like that.

[00:07:48]Mixed status families if you will. Where they daddy grew up on the west side. So they daddy is a blood. But daddy grew up had kids met a woman. woman who lived on the other side, lived on the east side and was like, "Uh, they grew up. My son grew up in the with the Crips, so this who what he is. They get it. You supposed to rep your section, son.

[00:08:12]Listen, but if I was an originalist, I would say that that person can't exist." So, when it comes to interpreting the Constitution or let's let's again, my bad. Let let me let me continue the example. If we talking hip-hop or rock and roll, you know, the originalists are the guys that are like the last real rock group was AC/DC. Nobody has made rock and roll since.

[00:08:37]The dead heads in the basement that are like the only true rock. It ended with Aussie Osborne. Like those guys, right?

[00:08:46]It's the It's the rapidity rap backpacker that's like if it ain't if you ain't got quadruples, if you ain't making quintuples in your lyrics, it's not real hip-hop.

[00:08:57]Like, okay, originalist.

[00:09:00]Five elements.

[00:09:03]It's got to have all five elements.

[00:09:05]There's a critique around Lin Manuel Miranda's um Hamilton play that is this a hip-hop Broadway?

[00:09:15]Some of the critiques are the fact that it's only one element. You ain't got no DJs in it. Ain't no break dancing. Ain't no graffiti show. Ain't no beatboxing.

[00:09:26]You understand what I'm saying? Like so there's elements missing. So you can't call it's just rap. And even the rap that you're doing, the hip-hop is inherently a protest. It is a protest against the system, just like punk music. Like it's it's inherently a protest. It's inherently a rage against the machine. So you if you're not raging against the machine, you can't really call it. Right? So that's one of the critiques if you're an originalist.

[00:09:52]Right? Now, I might be a purist when it comes to hip-hop in some ways, but also [ __ ] relax.

[00:09:59]Okay? relax.

[00:10:01]You ain't no When I went to go see Smith and Wesson, do you understand what I'm saying? I went to go see the boot camp click, I expected to stand there and nod my head and maybe some cute little Filipinos with their little backpack also nodding their head. Ain't nobody throwing it back to Heltera Skelter [ __ ] Sometimes you want to be in the club with the cutie pie. You understand what I'm trying to say right now? As just I'm just being as hetero as possible. What I'm trying to say is that rap counts too. Okay, obviously I'm King. I'm team Kendrick. King Counta the dot. The Canadian lost this battle. However, when we in the club, the Canadian plays a role. I get it.

[00:10:44]Okay, let these people live. You ain't got to be such an originalist about it. Now, when it comes to the Constitution, the idea is like, "What did the framers imagine, think of, and what did they put on? What did they originally mean, and that's all we're here to do for?" Now, other people are like, "Well, the documents alive, nigga." Like, there's stuff that they couldn't imagine. One of which is a transhuman.

[00:11:10]Like, they just they're like, "We couldn't thought would never cross their mind."

[00:11:16]So because of that, I don't know what the Constitution is covering. Now, here's the thing. Even if it did cross their mind, [ __ ] regular ass women, I'm saying it. I'm trying to say it like that on purpose. Regular degular women ain't included, [ __ ] Neither is black people. They called the native savages. So the Constitution wasn't thinking about none of us either.

[00:11:38]So like, let's just put that on the side. You understand what I'm saying?

[00:11:41]Either way, they they're saying, "What do we do with trans female athletes in high school?" Now, the plainif was a seventh grader who clearly got their heart broke. Now, when the right-wing talk about it, you talking about as if they're imagining that um what's that boy's name? The the the the uh Ben Shapiro movie. head ass. That's what they're picturing. Okay. They're like, "This is Dwayne the Rock Johnson putting a wig on and pretending to be a girl." That's what they're imagining, which is silly. Obviously, that's not what's going on, right?

[00:12:29]What's going on is you got this little seventh grade girl who was born, you know, a young man, right? did all the puberty blockers, so didn't go through male I'm I'm trying to use these binary terms and beg you understand the case.

[00:12:44]Didn't go through male puberty, right?

[00:12:46]And then join this this team, right? And what the court was saying in their decision is like, I think this might need to be a case-byase situation because there's a bigger question here.

[00:12:59]You want us to make a law about something. Now, remember I said what the Supreme Court supposed to do is poke holes and [ __ ] right? So there's like, okay, I know you want me to just I know you want me to just make the call.

[00:13:10]Can trans women play with naturally born women? And they're thinking instinctually, [ __ ] that's not that's like the point of female sports was for fairness. Like it's because like y'all physically not like that's their argument, right? But this got complicated. And the complication is if this now girl didn't go through male puberty then what are the advantages when you look at little boys and like if you got like they when they before puberty they just kids I would argue that they're just kids after but do you understand what I'm trying to say like their bodies is not bombarded with testosterone that gives them the different physiological changes that according to sports are concerned would advantage we're talking gross generalities because listen I my sister was six years older than me and was remarkably stronger than I was you understand what I'm saying um so the the the the advantages if you will at least as far as we're concerned with sports that in this patriarchal society gives men an advantage and which is why we needed women sports was because like there's y'all, they'll never win. You understand what I'm saying? Uh, according to, again, please forgive me. This is conventional thinking. The point I'm trying to make is the courts was like, well, I don't know, dude. Like, okay, we're not talking about a grown ass man who finally went through their their realization that they're ready to transition, but you have a please, again, forgive the binaries, a male body. You understand what I'm saying?

[00:15:02]That you're you're you're now transitioning to. That's not what they asking. Now, I know that's what the right-wing is picturing, but that's not what they asking. They're asking like, "Yo, huh? Well, maybe it's different if this trans girl didn't go through male puberty, right? So, their bodies never changed.

[00:15:23]They still have a little They still have a little child body. Does that make sense? We're just talking about seventh graders and they did the puberty blockers, so it's different."

[00:15:34]Now, if that's honestly what they was doing, I think this is actually pretty valid and something we need to discuss. Again, if you're an originalist in the Constitution, you actually have nothing to say about this because your worldview don't allow it, my [ __ ] You understand what I'm saying? Like, y'all don't listen listen them OG's got Nipy don't fit a category for them.

[00:16:03]Does that make sense? It's like you don't there's that doesn't exist for us so we can't even discuss it you you you following me like them 80s them 70s and 80s gangsters like this the Kendrick doesn't that doesn't work either you is or you ain't does that make sense like there's there's no such thing as as good kid Mad City like that doesn't compute for them it's like oh you're no he's really oh a gangster. He just says positive things and we just sending him out to do the work.

[00:16:40]But really, he a gangster. Or it's like, oh, this [ __ ] just he just grew up here. He a civilian, but he cool. He just civilian. You know what I'm saying?

[00:16:46]Like there's they there's no world for that. Please, the metaphor is falling apart, but understand what I'm trying to say here.

[00:16:56]If they were doing that, if they were being nuanced, it's one thing, but judging by the way that Clarence Thomas wrote his descent. At the end of the day, they just don't get trans. I think they just I think trans people just based on how they wrote, you they're just creeped out. I think they're just they just find trans people creepy.

[00:17:22]Like it's and because I mean and now the only thing that makes me happy is that nobody else signed on to Clarence Thomas' the only black man if you will Clarence Thomas's descent because it was just like I hate that the worst takes coming out of the Supreme Court is out his mouth.

[00:17:43]It's just [ __ ] what is you at least at least I mean I can't believe I'm saying this justice Kavanaaugh my [ __ ] was at least making a nuanced approach to it him famously knowing that he coached his daughter's sports teams like him acknowledging the importance of female sports and being like I think we just the point of this was the fairness and the participation and the beauty and obviously like I'm like I'm here for it.

[00:18:15]He is at least trying to be nuanced.

[00:18:19]This [ __ ] Clarence Trains was like, "A boy's a boy and a girl's a girl. This is gross."

[00:18:26]Ew. Is basically what this [ __ ] said. I just like I don't But at least at least the rest of them was like, "My [ __ ] shut the [ __ ] up cuz like you making us look bad." But at the end of the day, what the Supreme Court decided was like, "I'mma let you handle that states."

[00:18:42]Y'all got it.

[00:18:45]I don't want to smoke.

[00:18:50]All right. Next is the president's power to fire people.

[00:18:56]Let's go. [music] [music] All right, we're back. This about to be the nerdiest we've ever been on this mug.

[00:19:43]Okay, so y'all gonna have to put your thinking caps on because I'm fa y'all some vocab.

[00:19:48]All right, here's where [ __ ] crash out with me. All right, so this all started when Lena Khan got fired. Now, who the hell is Lena Khan?

[00:20:03]I'm glad you asked because [ __ ] you shouldn't know.

[00:20:08]Just like I hate that. I hate that we got to go through this. Okay, Lena Khan was the head of the FTC, which is the Federal Trade Commission. Now, the Federal Trade Commission is a regulatory body that does there's a lot of other commissions and bodies that are put together like this that's supposed to do just the nuts and bolts.

[00:20:32]They actually they regulate they run they're doing the work of governing, right? Like they're the the one like okay if somebody says they're remodeling their house are they the ones holding the screws putting most of the time no they not the ones that doing that. Do you understand what I'm saying? It's somebody actually screwing the thing into the wall. And sometimes you may have an idea of how y'all just went to my home girl's house who's got this beautiful like I only saw it when they first got it. Now they, you know, did all the renovations, right? And then there's this in the middle of their open floor this like wall that's kind of like real real kind of thin in its width and they put like a you know they're like wine thing like right on that wall and I was like that's a support that's a supportive uh a loadbearing beam right there on they were like yeah they wanted a whole open flooring but there's a loadbearing beam right there and the people that actually built the [ __ ] that was like we're not cutting that off or your roof's going to sag so you And I mean, you could fire us. You can get somebody else to do that that'll cut that beam for you, but your roof going to fall. No, you understand that no matter what your ideas are, you should trust the person actually building the [ __ ] that's looking at the running because after you leave this house, somebody else going to move into it. Does that make sense? I need to make sure it still stands.

[00:22:03]That's a loadbearing beam. We can make it look as good as possible, but we not cutting it down.

[00:22:11]You know, y'all know what a loadbearing beam is? Is that a little too old? A loadbearing beam is like if you in a room, you see how the room's empty, but there's a part of one of these walls is actually holding the weight of the house. Does that make sense? That's your loadbearing beam that's got to be there because it's holding it's doing the work, the weight, right?

[00:22:33]So the people actually building the stuff, these are the commissions and those commissions are put together by the Congress. Now for 91 years, I'm going to talk to you about this thing called Humphrey's executive and stay with me. Okay, so Trump fired Wait, let me go back. Trump fired this sister the second he got in office. Why?

[00:22:57]Cuz she ain't no conservative.

[00:23:00]And you're like, or you should be like, wait, can this [ __ ] just fire him? Uh, it depends on your understanding of the unitary executive theory.

[00:23:12]Is a boss a boss?

[00:23:15]If that contractor say, "I ain't going to cut this uh loadbearing beam down."

[00:23:20]You like, "Well, [ __ ] I'mma find me a contractor that will." [ __ ] it's my house.

[00:23:26]then maybe you have a unitary executive theory. But we gonna get to that in a second. First, let's talk about Humphrey's executive. Now, listen, this been together for 91 years. This this this how it worked. Okay, the president, this was President Hoover. So, President Hoover, I'm sorry I'm nerding out with y'all. President Hoover, he appointed to Senate or he appointed and then confirmed this guy named Humphrey as the commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission in 1933.

[00:23:56]After Hoover left, President Roosevelt took over, right? This during this is the New Deal guy, right? President Roosevelt asked this [ __ ] to quit.

[00:24:07]Hey, cuz can you leave?

[00:24:10]Why? Cuz I know you ain't going to want to do the [ __ ] I'm f to do right now.

[00:24:13]This New Deal [ __ ] I know you not going to be down with so can you just leave when boy boy since because he was so conservative right he was like you not f to do the [ __ ] I want you to do right so boy boy was like [ __ ] hell no I ain't f to resign you you trying to like no you ain't even no right and So Roosevelt just fired him.

[00:24:46]He's like, "Well, if you ain't gonna quit, I'mma fire him." However, the FTC, the FTC Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, I'm reading from this thing called uh oz.org.

[00:25:02]It's when you want to look back at like cases and stuff like that. He says the federal the federal uh trade commission act only allowed a president to remove a commissioner for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance of office.

[00:25:18]That was none of that. You just don't agree with this [ __ ] You can't fire this dude.

[00:25:24]You can fire him if he trash, but you can't just fire him because you just don't vibe with him.

[00:25:30]He not an elected official.

[00:25:34]Does that make sense? He He was appointed like this this [ __ ] job.

[00:25:39]You just don't like him. But you can't just fire him because you don't like him. That's not what the thing says, right? So then Humphrey died pretty quick. Uh after he was being dismissed.

[00:25:50]So his executive sued to recover Humphrey's lost salary cuz it's like, [ __ ] you couldn't have fired me. He died. Like y'all, first of all, you weren't allowed to fire him. So they sued. Like you weren't even you weren't even allowed to fire him in the first place. So the question is, did did section one of the Federal Trade Commission Act unconstitutionally interfere with the executive with the power of the president? Meaning does the wait wait wait. You saying he can only fire the president can only fire this person because of inefficiency and neglect of duty or a malfeasance, but does that overstep the power of the executive office? Like are you over like wait hold up hold up hold up hold up hold up. Is this is this messing up the checks and balances? Like [ __ ] why do you Hold up.

[00:26:41]Let me let me So that was the question right in this case that the Supreme Court had to discuss and the conclusion was unanimous that the FC's the FTC act was constitutional and Humphrey's dismissal on policy grounds was unjustified.

[00:27:05][ __ ] you can't fire this [ __ ] just because you don't like his policy.

[00:27:09]That's what Humphrey's executive decided 91 years ago, which is exactly what Trump did. He fired home girl because he don't agree with her politically.

[00:27:27]And she was like, "Nigga, what? This is already a law. You can't what are we what are we doing?" And he was like, "Well, if you don't agree with me, if you don't do the stuff I need you to do, is that not a dereliction of duty? Is that not you saying that like I have these positions?

[00:27:49]If I give you these roles, I know you disagree with them. You're not going to do the stuff I asked you. Therefore, you're that's a dereliction of duty."

[00:28:01]Hold on. My baby's asking me. Uh, would you prefer I make tuna for you?

[00:28:09]All right. My daughter [music] told me she's tired of shrimp. I make a lot of seafood. That's a sentence I never thought I'd ever hear.

[00:28:23][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> So this question is Like, yo, wait, but can these appointments that the Congress makes and you telling me I can't fire this person if they don't rock with if they don't get with the program?

[00:29:14]Well, then isn't their job to do like I'm the I'm the one the people chose.

[00:29:20]Ain't the ain't their job to do what?

[00:29:23]Like, what's going on here? That's why I needed to go to the Supreme Court. But this only works if you believe in I'm sorry I'm nerding out with y'all. This if you believe in a unitary executive power theory which essentially says this. Let me try to say this. It's that it's a theory that the the United States Constitution is that affirms that the president is the head of the federal government's executive branch and must retain sole authority over executive administration and officials.

[00:29:55]structurally centralizing the control within a unified hierarchies, right?

[00:30:00]Which means that like at the end of the day, it's the president's power. You it all it all stops at him. The buck stops with the president.

[00:30:13]The people elected this person to make this [ __ ] go. So, at the end of the day, they need to have the power to make this [ __ ] go. But if you telling me I can't fire people that ain't gonna do the [ __ ] I'm asking them to do, then how can I ex execute the mandate of the people? This is the argument that Trump is having right now. Do y'all remember us talking about Chevron deference? Y'all remember us talking about that and the major questions doctrine? I told you we was going to nerd out. Okay. So, this is this is the idea that says, okay, if there's a law that is ambiguous, that won't really like it's not really clear, who gets to decide? Like, if Congress makes a law that's not really clear, who gets to decide how you implement or not implement whether we inbounds or out- of-bounds? Since the Supreme Court knows law cases, they don't know the specifics of what the hell this particular thing is about. You can't you can't be a you can't be a a a a specified exit expert in everything.

[00:31:21]So you got to defer to the experts. So the major questions is like yo if we got questions like that then I should be able to refer to the case that was called Chevron deference which says the the court gets to defer to what the experts say not what this company wants.

[00:31:38]The company was Chevron. You feel me?

[00:31:40]They they didn't what they wanted was to not be regulated. They wanted to make their money. And the courts was like, "Well, [ __ ] I don't mean I'm not an expert on crude oil, but they are."

[00:31:54]You know what I'm saying? So, I'mma ask them, "Hey, are them [ __ ] tripping?"

[00:31:58]And the commission was like, "Them [ __ ] is tripping. They just trying to make money, [ __ ] They going to burn up all the fish going to have three eyes and shit." So then the courts was like, "Yeah, you know, I can't be an expert on all this." So, Congress, if you make a law and we don't understand it, we just going to ask y'all to explain it or put together some sort of commission when it's not clear. Here's the thing about the FTC. My boy, it's clear.

[00:32:23]It's very clear.

[00:32:26]On a future episode, we going to talk about why it be very difficult for Nitia Ramen to be a Zoron mom, Donnie. And it's because of the way that the Los Angeles charter is set up, the way that power is diffused, right? It's so power is distributed between the city council and the the the county commissioner. Why?

[00:32:50]Because LA was so large and neighborhoods started um writing their own charter. So that meant that like in the middle of Los Angeles like is another city where like it's not like the city limit stop. It be in the middle of it. Like Bair is its own city. You understand what I'm saying? So sometimes it be parts of LA where you driving down the street, you cross into a city and then cross out of that city and you back in LA again. Because so so that means that there might be a section of this where damn it's a it's a huge homeless encampment there but across the street it's pristine. That's because one side is city, the other side is county.

[00:33:27][ __ ] it's across the street. It's just the way that our city is set up. What they were trying to do was to diffuse power because a lot of these people was coming from the Tamney Hall, the the East Coast, you know, Chicago, uh, New York way of running things where the Rockefellers and them and Carnegies just bought a politician. And since it was so top down in New York, you couldn't get nothing done. And all you had to do is pay. You pay to make sure that you had a guy in charge. So corruption was so much easier over there, right? So by design, we diffused power. This is what they trying to say is like, well, here's the thing, bro.

[00:34:08]Like this is by design.

[00:34:12]Like you shouldn't just be able to fire everybody just cuz you don't like them.

[00:34:17]That's no one man should have all that power is the argument right so another good example would be like AI right because it's not just the Federal Trade Commission it's any commission right the the the the Congress has the power to put them together and put the people in place right because the way to have a stable culture and economy is some sort of consistency right I need to know that the law is the law. Now, granted, I'm black, so it's not like these people follow the law, especially when it come to me. But the point I'm trying to say is like essentially, [ __ ] this is illegal. [ __ ] this is not. Okay? I'm the one actually screwing the hole into the drywall.

[00:35:03]If you don't like the type of screws I use, you can't just fire me, my [ __ ] These are the screws that keep the walls up.

[00:35:14]I just What do you want me to say?

[00:35:17]Right.

[00:35:19]You want me to use the screws you won't?

[00:35:23]But the screws you won't I'm trying to tell you ain't going to work. Well, maybe they will. I'm just not like what I'm trying to tell you is I'm the expert in this [ __ ] right? And we all got to live in this building.

[00:35:38]You understand? So, there needs to be some sort of consistency. And the way that we design this is to say all the way back for 91 years. It's like, bro, look it, if he not doing his job, that's different. But if you just don't like his positions on I don't think you should be able to you should be able to do this, right? You know what the Supreme Court decided was, yeah, he should be able to do this.

[00:36:08][groaning] So yeah, president can fire you if they don't, you know, based on whether they think you uh you going to get with the program.

[00:36:21]And finally, birthright citizenship.

[00:36:25]uh this past 5 to 4 which is terrifying to me like we talked about last week cuz uh I thought y'all was originalist and it seemed like the 14th amendment even the and doicile uh meaning like your main residence or subject to the jurisdiction thereof like we talked about last week is the thing that was they was all getting hung up on.

[00:36:59]But all of a sudden, all of a sudden, these conservative thinking Supreme Court policy wonks all of a sudden want to talk about the idea that like, well, the framers couldn't have imagined anchor babies or the ability to travel across the world and get here in hours or walk. They couldn't imagine like, you know, mixed status families or or political like they couldn't imagine these things. So, we need to make sure that our laws match the reality that we're in now, which is like, my [ __ ] that seems to be pretty convenient that all of a sudden you want to reinterpret the constitution based on the times because before you was originalist. Cuz if you was an originalist, you would be like, I don't know why y'all talking to us anyway, [ __ ] the 14th amendment. Clear. But alas, 6 to three. At least they did something. Birthright citizenship, [ __ ] is exactly what it sounds like.

[00:38:02]Trump is just phenomenally incorrect. Just loud and wrong about America being the only country that has it. [ __ ] this just just I mean, it's just verifiably false.

[00:38:19]It's just it's verifiably false. But at the end of the day, the agreement was, "Look, man, if you're born here, you're a citizen.

[00:38:32]Duh."

[00:38:34]And that was their crash out, but we'll see cuz it barely passed, which meant that um this you know what what does Miles and them call him? Teenage Mutant Ninja Gerbles uh Steven Miller is gonna try to come back and appeal this mug and push at it, which is this the scary part where it's just like I don't know why this wasn't the easiest question they was ever asked. Anyway, that's it on the Supreme Court out.

[00:39:06]We'll see what happens next year when the new season [music] starts with them.

[00:39:11]But there it is. Y'all learned some new words. Humphrey's executive unitary unified executive theory.

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[00:39:25]Good for y'all.

[00:39:28]You smart as hell.

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