Unknown Protester (3:56)

I'm at the protest right now in New York City. Anti Trump, anti fascist protests. And I have one question. Where the is Gen Z? These people are cheering, they're talking like it's just the 60s. It's just like the 60s and they're having conversations and walking slowly. There's no fight here. There's no youth here. It's all 30 somethings and their children and then seniors and God bless everybody who showed up today. But I'm really disappointed in the youth turnout. Where is the youth turnout? Barely any teenagers, barely any teenagers ever like these. Oh my God, I can't even like, where are you going if you're not going to the protest right now? What's more, what's more important?

Andrew Colvin (4:44)

So there's old people, you got like Joan Baez and Neil Young are going to be headlining some, some protests coming up this week. And it just sort of begs the question, what happened to that youth rebel energy? Well, guess what, they're wearing MAGA hats now. Gen Z is not participating in this because they know it's a scam. They know it. It's baked into the calculus for them. This is the same generation that was told the only way to succeed was to put yourself into mountains of debt and get A college degree. And that was a lie. They were told. You're never going to own anything. You're always going to be renters and you're going to love it. Which is a lie. Young men were told that they were toxic. Lie. Young women were told they had to be boss babes and corporate slaves and childless and unmarried to be happy, freeze their eggs. Another lie. Gen Z is part of this generation that has been demonized by older generations that came before them and now not you. In this audience, you are the exception. If you are a boomer or old Gen Xer or silent generation listening to this, you are you. You're part of the good guys. So this is not directed at you. But generally speaking, older generations sold them out. You guys probably are not aware of what it feels like to be Gen Z if you're not in that generation. I'm not in that generation. I'm a millennial. But some of the same trends held true for me. It's this. Gen Z has parents and grandparents that inherited a rich and powerful America, the envy of the world, and handed off to them a weakened country, a debt riddled country with annual deficits in the trillions of dollars that's divided over race, ethnicity, whether or not there's two genders, and every other social science abstraction that they invented in a college laboratory that they graduated from without any debt, now cost $75,000 or more a year to attend. They got to go into debt. That's why we have Y Refi as one of our partners on this show. Because so many young people are in these mountains of debt that put off family formation, put off getting married, put off buying a home, and for what they were sold a bill of lies. And so I love seeing Charlie out on these college campuses changing the contours of the political movement in this country. A tectonic shift where everybody just assumed that young people were going to be liberal and progressive and radically so. And yeah, of course we've still got issues with young women and there are still some radically progressive young people. It's not to say that the battle is over. And that's exactly why Charlie is going back out on the road. This is exactly why instead of resting on our laurels, Charlie decided, hey, it's time to hit the road again and double down and triple down. So these crowds, they're huge. And these clips get seen by millions and millions and millions of people. And this is something Charlie would not tell you, but I am happy to tell you it probably feels a little bit braggadocious. For Charlie to do it himself. But I will tell you this. There was a feature article in the New York Times that came out about a month ago and it said how Charlie Kirk became the youth whisperer of the conservative of conservative movement, but of the country. And one of the facts that is hidden in that article that is just mind blowing is that the author of that article is a guy named Robert Draper, really celebrated famous New York Times columnist. He went and spoke to TikTok directly and what he found out from TikTok was remarkable. First, Charlie is the most trusted voice amongst young people in the country. Two, Charlie had the third most engaged TikTok in the country behind President Donald Trump, the Trump campaign, then Charlie Kirk, and then the Kamala campaign. So you guys are all a part of making this huge tectonic shift in our politics happen. And I just wanted to tell you that because I don't think he's, he's willing to say that out loud himself, but it's a huge accomplishment. So hats off to all the teams that play a part in that.

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Andrew Colvin (10:15)

Without further ado, I have my friend and friend of the show, Mike Davis joining us. Mike, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

Mike Davis (10:22)

Thanks for having me back on.

Andrew Colvin (10:24)

So Mike, you know, we've, there's been a lot of hemming and hawing and consternation and gnashing of teeth on the right as President Trump's agenda has continuously been thwarted by activist judges. Judge shopping, we've seen a break in the dam. However, in the last two days, for our audience's sake, I think there's, you know, I think two big ones, but we could go deeper than that, break down what has transpired in the last two days, how is it broken down at scotus and what does it mean for the Trump administration moving forward?

Mike Davis (10:58)

So, very quick, quickly. President Trump campaigned on the fact that he's going to hire Elon Musk, set up the Department of Government Efficiency, cut waste, fraud and abuse, secure our border, and get illegal immigrants, particularly foreign terrorists, the hell out of our country. President Trump is doing the unthinkable. He's doing exactly what he promised American voters he would do, and he's doing fast. Right? And he won a broad electoral mandate. 312 electoral votes, all seven swing states, the popular vote. He kept the House. He won a comfortable majority in the Senate, and he is ready to lead on day one. So these activist plaintiffs are going to these activist judges and sabotaging the President. He's not stealing Congress's Article 1 legislative power. He's not stealing the Supreme Court's Article 3 judicial power. He's exercising core Article 1 to executive power to take care that our laws are faithfully executed, to secure our country, to repel an invasion, to secure our border, to root out waste, fraud, and abuse. These activist judges have been sabotaging them, have been sabotaging President Trump for the last three months. And so the Supreme Court has finally put on its big boy pants and it is finally stopping this judicial sabotage. This is not judicial review by these activist judges. This is judicial sabotage. And so we saw where this started because the Chief justice and Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the liberals and let Judge Ali, this guy in D.C. who just got confirmed in the lame duck session after Democrats won the White House, lost the White House in the Senate. Judge Ali, who brags he's the first Muslim, the first Arab judge in D.C. ordered President Trump to send out $2 billion in foreign aid over the President's national security review to make sure, for example, we're not funding Hamas terrorists who are killing Americans under the guise of Gaza humanitarian aid. The Supreme Court let Ali force the president to send out that checks, those checks. That only emboldens these other activist judges. They used a legal technicality that it was a temporary restraining order, which it wasn't, but. But because it was a temporary restraint restraining order, according to the Chief justice and Barrett and the three libs it was not immediately appealable. And that's where we saw this onslaught of lawfare by these Democrat activists for the last few months. And the Supreme Court is finally stopping this. They finally said that these TROs are not TROs. These are permanent injunctions. They're appealable. You finally have the Supreme Court stopping another activist judge in D.C. trying to sabotage an ongoing military operation to get terrorist out of our country. You're seeing with the Supreme Court today that these probationary employees who President Trump fired because they don't have tenure, 16,000 of them, an activist judge said that Trump had to rehire the Supreme Court, stopped that. So you're finally seeing the Supreme Court feeling the political pressure and put and putting these activist judges in their place.

Andrew Colvin (14:05)

So I want to get into the Amy Coney Barrett now, we just heard Caroline Levitt in the press conference was asked about this, whether or not the Trump administration administration was disappointed in her ruling. Now, she sided with the three liberal justices in that. And actually there's a picture going around the Internet, I believe that. I sent it to you last night. Go ahead and throw up.142. Some hay is being made about this. This, the group of four women, these were the on this Alien Enemies act ruling. Now, what do you make of acb? She seems to be veering to the left. And I described it to somebody recently. I said it's like she's basically a pro life Democrat is what is kind of my read on her. Now, she's very Catholic, comes from Notre Dame. Are you surprised at the way she's been ruling recently, Mike, or did you see this coming a mile away?

Mike Davis (15:06)

No, I'm surprised. I, you know, she clerked for Justice Scalia. She, she has solid conservative credentials. I think that those home protests by the Democrats during the Dobbs decision rattled her. She's a rattled law professor. And you know, sometimes law professors, they overthink things and they don't have good judgment. Right. They, I think it's for example, with the TRO case where Jud where Professor Amy Coney Barrett thought she was grading a civil procedure examination and said, well, this Judge Ali called it a temporary restraining order. So therefore it's not immediately appealable any judgment. Any judge who had significant experience and good judgment would never have been duped by that. But Professor Amy Coney Barrett got duped by that. And I think that Professor Barrett has Justice Kagan with her claws in her. Justice Kagan is the, she's the North Korean handler for the Democrats. She's the one who tries to get her claws in these Republican justices. I've seen it firsthand. You know, the other justices tend to be smarter than this and understand they're getting played. But Professor Barrett, maybe she's a little bit more aloof and doesn't understand that she's getting played.

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Andrew Colvin (17:26)

I have to play this clip because it's, it's just wonderful to watch CNN have to describe a victory at the supreme court for President Trump.

Mike Davis (17:34)

165 we start though with breaking news at the Supreme Court. It just handed President Trump another win, allowing his administration to fire hundreds of probationary federal workers. I want to get straight to Paula Reid who was looking through the decision. Paula, what do they say? So Dana, this is a significant win for the administration, the fourth one they have notched from the Supreme Court in just the past few days. Here this decision is focused on thousands of fired probationary federal workers. Now this decision will allow the government to keep those individuals off the payroll while the larger questions about these firings are litigated. Now this was decided and not on a constitutional issue, really on the merits of was decided on something called standing, which is whether the individuals who brought this lawsuit had the right to do so. And here the court says that the nine nonprofit organizations did not have standing in this case.

Andrew Colvin (18:32)

So what they're trying to do there, Mike, is basically limit the Fallout. Right. They're helping their audience brace that, hey, this isn't all bad. The sky is not falling. Don't worry. This isn't a constitutional issue. We can still stop Trump. What does, what do these, you know that you mentioned four Supreme Court wins. What do these wins portend for the future of this judicial activism? Are we seeing the Trump administration turn a corner or is there still a lot of battles left to fight?

Mike Davis (19:03)

Both. But I'll say this, that these cases should be nine to nothing. They are so clear cut, they're so easy. If this were President Biden, there's no question these Democrat operatives in robes on the Supreme Court would be voting for Biden. But because it's Trump, they're not. Again, this should be nine to nothing. And Justice Barrett is a rattled law professor with her head up again, which is not surprising. But these are easy cases. Does the President have the executive power under Article 2 or not? It's very clear in the Constitution that the executive power, all executive power, belongs to the President and the President alone. That means he can repel an invasion. He can secure our border. He can fire executive branch employees. And look, there's recourse. If these executive branch employees get fired, their recourse is to go to the Merit System Protection Board. If, if a contractor gets fired, their recourse is to go to the court of federal claims under the Jones act. It is not to go to a Democrat activist judge and get a so called temporary restraining order with a nationwide injunction that essentially sets policy that takes over the President's executive powers and takes over Congress's legislative powers that the judges are not supposed to operate, that they're supposed to be the least dangerous branch. They have a modest but crucial rule, and that is to decide cases or controversies for the parties in front of them who have redressible claims. Nothing more, nothing less.

Andrew Colvin (20:38)

That's what's key here. One of the, one of the best points I think, that's being made and being brought up with these national injunctions is that at a lower district court level, that should be, the ruling should be limited to the parties named. It should not be extracted and extrapolated out to the national legal precedents. Because there's one court in the land in the Constitution that has national jurisdiction. That would be the Supreme Court. That's the only court actually in Article 3. It says Congress can therefore then make other courts and designate other courts to handle other jurisdictions, but they serve at the, at the, at the sanctioning of Congress. So it's a It's a fascinating legal discussion, Mike. I want to know what of all of the suggestions that are being floated out there of how to reform the courts, which one you prefer, right? I mean, Senator Mike Lee has this idea that instead of judge you, you get a, you get a random selection of three federal court judges that would then. So you don't get to pick you. You, you just get assigned. Right. In a lottery system. I think that's fairly interesting because as it is right now, Mike, and I think you'd agree, one district court judge has more unit unilateral power than a Supreme Court justice because they have rule one of nine. These guys get one of one. They have so much power and they shut everything down. Grinds to a halt. So much is going on in the world. Elbridge Colby, who we supported on this show, Charlie Kirk personally did, just got confirmed by the U.S. senate. The only Republican to vote no would be Mitch McConnell. He is one of the luminaries of the national security brain trust in this country. He's being proven right time and time again. And he just got confirmed. Really excited about that.

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Andrew Colvin (23:31)

Talk about reform. There's a lot of ideas being floated about. There's legislation that's been offered forth by Senator Mark Mike Lee and others. If you had a magic wand and you were going to fix this, how do you fix this judicial activism problem so that the left can no longer just judge, shop and grind everything to a halt?

Mike Davis (23:51)

Well, fortunately, I don't have a magic wand. I have Senator Mike Lee and Chuck Grassley and John Thune and their staffs, and I'm working very closely with them. On these pieces of legislation along with House members. So look, when the federal judiciary loses its legitimacy, it loses everything. And I sent pretty public warnings to the Chief justice that if you don't get your judicial house in order, Congress is going to do it for you. And I think the Chief justice got the message, as we've seen with the last four Supreme Court rulings. And look, we don't even need a legislative fix of if the Supreme Court would just rein in these activist judges, we would be fine. If the Supreme Court would just say that under Article 3 of our Constitution, judges can only decide cases or controversies before with the parties before the court who have redressible claims. They can't do nationwide injunctions. That's the Article 3 judicial power. And if they would just do that, we would not have to reform these courts. But until then, what I think needs to happen, and I'm working very closely with the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Judiciary Committee on this, along with leadership, is aggressive oversight impeachment probes for people like Jeb Boasberg who egregiously violate the law and put American allied lives in danger. Cutting $2 billion in the federal judiciary's $10 billion annual budget because Judge Ali let $2 billion go out the door to fund his Hamas terrorist buddies and others who are killing Americans. We need to do reforms to the D.C. district Court. I think that we should eliminate the D.C. superior Court, which I think is unconstitutional under the appointments clause because the President doesn't get to pick the judges he wants. And then the D.C. district Court can take the D.C. superior Court's jurisdiction on street crimes and local D.C. disputes and then randomly draw judges from around the country to handle all other national cases in D.C. because we have Obama and Biden radicals along with Republican wimps on the D.C. district Court who are destroying our country and it's unacceptable.

Andrew Colvin (25:59)

All right, I'm going to change gears here really quick, but that's a very thought out answer and I think we're going to clip it and make sure the right people get it because I think that was well thought through, Mike. But I'm going to change gears here really quick. There's a breaking story out of LA if you could throw up image 166 here. A 43 year old Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino is accused of sexually assaulting and then murdering a 13 year old boy. And it turns out he is an illegal alien from El Salvador. So he raped this little boy. Go ahead. 167. You can see his victim and then murdered Him. And now we find out he's an illegal alien. Mike, what do we got?

Mike Davis (26:45)

And Andrew there was, I think he raped a 16 year old too. In addition to this boy.

Andrew Colvin (26:51)

Yeah, it's a. He was a soccer coach and so he was exposed to a lot of these young, young boys. It's really sick stuff. The LA County DA is charging Garcia Aquino with alleged sexual assault of another boy, 16, in February of 20. So what do we got to do to rein in these. One minute left, Mike. To reign in these sanctuary cities? What can be done? This has got to stop.

Mike Davis (27:13)

Well, I think that number one, this, this, this murderer, this child rapist and murder, this pedophile needs to be brutally executed in public to send a very powerful message that if you're going to harm kids, if you're going to rape kids and murder kids, we are going to viciously, brutally execute you as a powerful deterrence and retribution. But I would also say this to these cities, to these nonprofit organizations, it is a federal crime to, to harbor illegal aliens. Right? And so keep doing what you're doing and see what, see what comes from Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche and Cash Patel and the others in the Justice Department. You may end up being in prison for harboring these illegal immigrants.

Andrew Colvin (27:59)

I totally agree with that. We need to start making examples out of these people that are harboring illegal immigrants. You know, I'm sick of the micro, the sob stories, the one offs this really good person here that it doesn't matter. Okay? This is a macro criminals. We need to. Exactly. They all are criminals. They broke our laws to get in here. They gamed our asylum laws and you know, it's like this El Salvadorian guy that got sent to the prison in El Salvador. You know, he's an MS.13 gang member, but he gotta stay because he made up some tribe story about how he'd know physical harm if he went back to El Salvador anyway. We got to stop allowing those loopholes to happen. Mike Davis, excellent as always. Thank you my friend. Thanks so much for listening everybody. Talk to you soon.

Mike Davis (28:44)

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