Ted Cruz (29:01)
Yeah. I gotta say, this is, this is an article that was in the Hill that it came out again on December 26, day after Christmas. It is entitled, Congress has the power to Block Trump from taking Office But Lawmakers must act Now. And it is by Evan Davis and David Schulte, who. I don't know either one of these individuals. I don't know anything about them. Their bio says Evan Davis was editor in chief of the Columbia Law Review and David Schulte was editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal. Both clerked for Justice Potter Stewart. Davis is a New York lawyer, served as president of the New York City Bar, and Schulte is a Chicago investment banker. I don't know these guys, but it's been a long time since Potter Stewart served on the court. Which means these are not spring chickens. They were law clerks a long time ago. I mean, I clerked for Chief justice Rehnquist in 1996, and by the time I was there, Potter Stewart had been long, long gone. And I gotta say that the most screamingly funny part of it is they begin their bios with they were editor in chief of the Columbia Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. Like, I'm sorry, these are presumably accomplished lawyers who are grown ass adults and they're quoting the Law Review they were on when they were 24 years old. That's just ridiculous. And it actually, it makes the rest of the article make sense. Because listen, part of the reason our academy is so messed up is you have people who are disconnected from reality, who are hardcore leftist, who are far too many people in our universities, are openly Marxist. When I was at Harvard Law School, there were more professors on the faculty who were explicitly Marxist than there were who were Republican. And it wasn't even close. There were more than a dozen by their own self description, Marxist professors. There was only one open Republican on the faculty when I was there. But what these two numbskulls are arguing is that Congress, when we come together on January 6, should block Trump from becoming president. And we should do so, they argue, under the 14th Amendment, Section 3 of the Constitution that says no person shall hold any office, civil or military, who having previously taken an oath to support the Constitution, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same. Now they argue this has been disqualification. The evidence of Trump's engagement in insurrection is overwhelming. It has been decided in three separate forums, they write, two of which are fully contested with the active participation of Trump's counsel. The first was Trump's second impeachment trial. The second contested proceeding was Colorado's five day judicial process do judicial due process hearing where they found that Trump had engaged in insurrection and barred him from the ballot. And finally there is the bipartisan inquiry of the House select committee to investigate January 6th. Now, the stupidity of this argument literally leaps off of every syllable of every word that they have written. Let's take the first, okay? A bunch of partisan Democrats impeach Trump because they hate him. And by the way, to be clear, verdict was launched in response not to the second impeachment, but in response to the first impeachment trial. Because we have seen lawfare against Donald Trump. Trump derangement syndrome is real. It is a serious mental illness. These people are friggin nuts. They hate his guts. They've lost their minds. And at this point, understand these two numbskulls and every other Democrat who engages in fantasy about this is an election denier and an insurrectionist. They are trying to say we don't care that the voters voted. We don't care that the result was overwhelming. We don't care that of the seven contested battleground states, Don Trump won not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, but seven. All seven. We don't care. We are angry leftists and their argument is we should block it. Now, to be clear, they said there were three, three different proceedings that had determined he was an insurrectionist. The first was the impeachment trial. Of course, the impeachment trial is two parts. One is the impeachment in the House of Representatives and partisan Democrats did impeach him, but then it went to the Senate and there was a trial. And at the end of the trial, Donald Trump was acquitted. They ignore that fact. That literally is not mentioned in the rap ad. The second is the Colorado the radical partisan decision of the Colorado Supreme Court, except for the fact that the U.S. supreme Court unanimously reversed that decision. By the way, that's another prediction I made on this podcast. When the Colorado Supreme Court came back down, I said, this will be reversed and it will be reversed unanimously. That's what the court did. They barely acknowledge the Supreme Court reversed it, but they just kind of ignore it and say, well, that's another way it was determined in a decision that has been reversed unanimously by the Supreme Court. And the third, I really laugh, is, is the, quote, bipartisan inquiry of the House select committee to investigate January 6th. Now, it's bipartisan because Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, two people fully afflicted by Trump derangement syndrome, were included. Of course, Nancy Pelosi allowed no Republicans.
