Birthright Blues

00:00:00 Speaker 1: And then Diane Feinstein has that clip where she says the dogma lives loudly within you goes very viral. A lot of people are very much going to her defense, and it was almost just it was baked in at that point practically that if we lose RBG, if Bayer Ginsburg leaves, this would be who Trump would replace. I think even Trump himself signaled that would be the case. And I guess it's just a good warning you have to be careful about these things because even if you took the position we need to have a woman to replace RBG, there actually were other options out there who had a longer track record on immigration, on citizenship type questions that showed they were good on that. And we just have to we have to have new we have to have new litmus tests for judges going forward that we're sure that new people are going to pass. And that's just part of the part of the ordeal of politics, so to speak. We had fifty years of overturned row litmus tests. We need new ones in place, a SAP. 00:00:58 Speaker 2: So this this brings us to the next question. Though NPR publishes this, I guess erroneous report that Samuel Alito, who he and Clarence Thomas are the standard bearers if you're conservative on the court, don't want to lose him. But they're both in their mid to late seventies. They're getting older. So NPR says he's retiring. Then they retract it. NPR, you got the image here, retracts the story right there you go. But this kind of signals like there's something in the ether. Is this What are you hearing, Mike Davis about Alito's future, Clarence Thomas's future and what work is being done now to make sure that the replacements are in their mold. 00:01:41 Speaker 3: Well, look, either of them are irreplaceable. I love both of them. Justice Thomas is our greatest justice of all time. He is told me he's going out feat first, and I have told him make sure that he dies during a Republican president in a Republican Senate, to which he laughs with his life laugh. But Justice Alito, Look, he's Italian. I which would Italian Catholic school. Italians invaded my Irish family. They live to be like two hundred. This guy's in good health. I have I have no concerns about Alito's health. I don't want Alito to leave because we need adult supervision at the Supreme Court. We need we need nine, just nine Alitos. We need nine Thomas's and they just don't exist, and so we need to look there there. I have come up with a long list of justices. Many of them are great, but no one is going to be as great as Justice Thomas or Justice Alito. 00:02:36 Speaker 2: Ever, well, that's depressing. I know that a ton of energy has gone into this in certain circles to make sure. I mean, what are the precedents for justices sort of hand pick? I know this has happened before where they sort of hand picked their successor if you had to throw out three or four names of people that we should that people in this audience should look for and look out for in the future, who would you name? 00:02:59 Speaker 3: Let me say this just to give a broader perspective. We have this whole idea of textualism and originalism. Textualism got us to fourteenth Amendment constitutionalized birthright citizenship with Amy Cony Barrett. So I think this whole textualism originalism thing we need to rethink. We need nine Alitos, we need nine Clarence Thomas and so look, I have a long list of twenty six potential nominees to the Supreme Court that I have shared with the President and his top people. But you know, the people who I think would be great are people like John Sower, who's the Solicitor General of the United States, or Judge Eileen Cannon down in Florida, or Judge amol Bofe who just get put on the Third Circuit. There are many, but people like that who are bold and fear listen, are not going to worry about what Nina Totenberg at MPR. 00:03:55 Speaker 2: Thinks about that Mike Davis Article three project. Thank you, my friend. We'll see you soon. 00:03:59 Speaker 1: Thank you. 00:04:03 Speaker 2: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charlikirk dot com.