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Logan Sekulow: Welcome to Sekulow. This is Logan Sekulow. Will Haynes in studio. Robert Cornell is going to be joining us a little bit later. Look, in a new world we live in, you get to hear a lot more from Supreme Court justices. And I think it's about time actually that the American people get to spend a little more time, a little more personal time with the Supreme Court justices, as of course, they are deciding the laws of the land. Now, of course, this comes also at a time where just a few years ago, a lot of them were being doxxed and threatened and terrorized due to a leaked opinion. Something that really had not happened in a very long time, or not to this level, had really ever happened. It happened to be one of the most sensitive topics, of course, it was the overturning of Roe v. Wade. So, we are going to discuss that at length because you had Justice Alito appearing on the Shannon Bream Sunday morning shows on Fox News and laying down some truth. Had a lot to say. It was actually very interesting to hear him talk about things that again, unprecedented that we would actually hear a direct response to a lot of the issues that came up whether it was the leak, whether it was the death threats that came upon him, whether he's going to be retiring. These are questions that you typically would like to hear in an interview, but you don't often, maybe just due to the privacy that has always been the case for Supreme Court justices. That has changed dramatically in a few years, as now we know that they're broadcast, the time limits are different. A lot of things have changed in the Roberts Court. And we're going to discuss a lot of that. Of course, the unmaking of the Supreme Court. Discuss that as well, whether you will have a packing the court situation. What it could look like in the future and his concern that there is an effort, a specific effort to take down the Supreme Court as we know it.
Guest (Male): That's right. So why was he even giving these interviews? Well, these are the type of interviews you normally get at a time like this because he has a new book out.
Logan Sekulow: Of course.
Guest (Male): So it's called So Ordered an originalist view of the Constitution, the court, and the country. What is different though, is that he is going beyond just what's in the in the book itself.
Logan Sekulow: You know, going a little bit C-SPAN like sit down with the book people that no one wants to watch. They go over very specific details of what's in the book, which is usually kind of vague. It's usually not like this. It's almost more like a weirdly Supreme Court self-help.
Guest (Male): Right. I feel like it's not like let's get into it. But this this was a very different tone. That's right. And he also he went on CBS and we're going to play a lot of that sound, but I think this is one that caught our eye because you have to also think about where we are contextually. Today is the first day of the new Supreme Court term. Many people speculated he was going to retire at the end of last term.
Logan Sekulow: First Monday in October.
Guest (Male): He did not. That's right. So first Monday in October, but we're also away from a little ways away, just a few weeks away from the first Tuesday in November, which is the midterm elections, where you are seeing an insurgent party trying to make a part of their redoing of the the power base in this country is redoing the Supreme Court. That is a part of the plan if they first get the midterm terms and then eventually they take the executive branch. You know that the Democrats want to redo this. And so let's play. This is Justice Alito byte six from just yesterday.
Justice Alito: There has been a concerted effort to intimidate the court and justice on the court to try to influence us to decide cases differently from the way in which we have been deciding them. And I I am concerned about the future of the court.
Logan Sekulow: So he's saying he's concerned about the future of the court. Why? Because they're being intimidated, whether that's from the inside, whether that's from the outside, from social media, from people surrounding their homes, trying to get them to vote in a way that's different than not only what their conscience says, but what they believe the rule of law should be. Again, this has not been a court. As much as people want to push saying this is a conservative court, this is a Trump court, how many times have you all been on my chat mad at us and mad at the Supreme Court of the United States, or even President Trump been mad at the Supreme Court of the United States for not voting in his way? But they're worried about being bullied. And bullied beyond just like, oh, we hope they vote one way. We're talking about people surrounding their homes, death threats, firebombs, all of these things that are happening, that happened in real-time, and I'm sure are still happening from the smallest to the biggest. We're going to discuss it all and a lot more. What do you think about the future of the Supreme Court of the United States? Do you even care? 1-800-684-3110.
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Logan Sekulow: Welcome back to Sekulow. We do have some phone lines open for you. 1-800-684-3110. Talking about Justice Alito making the rounds, making some appearances, of course, on Fox News, on Shannon Bream, some other options as well. But Shannon Bream, of course, attorney who has been knows a whole lot about the Supreme Court of the United States has obviously been involved quite a bit. Asked some really good and tough questions of Justice Alito and he did not seem fazed, nor did he seem to try to move the goalpost or change the answer. He took it head on. Look, some of the answers, quite frankly, are sad and a little scary. But that is what we're headed into if you have the remaking of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is what we know a lot of people want to see. Of course, they only want to see that right now as it feels like it's more conservative leaning. If they were in control, if the if the liberal justices were in control, of course, how dare someone suggest this? It's a game of politics, you know, whether you've seen the inside of of the Republican Party, you've seen the inside of the Democratic Party, a lot of it is very dirty. We know this. We know politics can get gross. But we also know you now have the ability to rile up individuals, human beings who maybe are already off, are already susceptible to manipulation. And it brings protests to the doorsteps of the Supreme Court justices. It brings attacks, it brings assassination attempts. All of this is real. And it's real because why? A group of Supreme Court justices decide that they have a point of view that they don't share necessarily with another portion of of the United States of America. Something that I don't know, just exists in normal commonplace. But I think we should hear. This is kind of how it started. Some of the conversation with Shannon Bream and Justice Alito. And I want to hear from you your thoughts on this as we head into the midterms. How much does the Supreme Court of the United States matter to you? Two years out from a presidential candidate or from a new president of the United States? They're going to likely decide just based on the age and and where people are. They are likely going to decide another couple of Supreme Court justices at least. Does it weigh into your vote? I know it's been something we've pushed here for a long time. It always feels like it's a wall. Feels like that it's something you guys understand, but you don't necessarily always care about. But now you have the other side, maybe the more liberal side, spending more time talking about the Supreme Court of the United States. And I still feel like we don't in the conservative side. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. Let's hear from Shannon Bream and Justice Alito, byte one.
Shannon Bream: Groups on the left now saying it's time to reform the court. They need to either add justices. You guys need to be term-limited, there needs to be an age limit. Do you all discuss those when they come up publicly?
Justice Alito: We do not discuss it. I am concerned about that. There has been a concerted effort to intimidate the court and justices on the court to try to influence us to decide cases differently from the way in which we have been deciding them. And I I am concerned about the future of the court. I think it's an important institution. It has not always done the right thing, but I think on the whole, it has been fundamental in protecting our constitutional structure and the rights that all Americans enjoy.
Guest (Male): And when you hear that answer based off the context in which Shannon Bream set it up about it wasn't are you you know feeling like people are trying to intimidate it through threats of violence, which we know has been happening. He even goes on to talk about the the death threats and the assassination attempts that have happened with his colleague Brett Kavanaugh, but also ones that have happened against other colleagues that they don't talk about as much. And you can understand if that was just all the answer was. But he's taking it a step further by responding to her question about left groups on the left saying it's time to reform the court. Or that they need to add justices or term limit the justices. And his response is, there is a concerted effort to intimidate the court and justices on the court to try and influence us to decide cases differently from the way in which we've been deciding them. He is saying that even that is an intimidation tactic. Trying to say like, well, if you keep doing this, we're just going to make you irrelevant. We're going to add justices. We're going to make you have to leave the court by capping the age, that he sees even that as an intimidation tactic. And when you even think back to like where did a lot of this start? We saw it in the break video if you're watching on YouTube or or Rumble or Facebook or wherever you watch. But if you were on radio, you may not have heard this, we've played it for years, but this was I don't know. Someone who hopes to be the next majority leader in the Senate. Chuck Schumer on the steps of the Supreme Court, calling out new justices based off of what they were anticipating, the overturning of Roe v. Wade. This is byte 19 with Chuck Schumer giving this very distinct threat.
Chuck Schumer: I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
Logan Sekulow: Yeah, again, the exact moment where they are specifically told, don't go forward with the decisions that you feel like are correct. You feel like we'll hold the law of the United States of America. If you don't go with us, you will unleash the whirlwind. Of course, let's ask him, Chuck Schumer, how do you feel about term limits, Chuck Schumer? How do you feel about age limits, Chuck Schumer? You're in your mid-70s. You've been around for quite some time. Of course, if the shoe was on the other foot, you'd have the exact opposite of a reaction, because that's how Washington rolls. It doesn't matter as long as it's pushing your agenda forward. It doesn't matter if people's lives are threatened. It doesn't matter if kids are having to be put under protection because, you know, you have decided to essentially rile up a base. And I'm very proud of Justice Alito for going on these news sources and talking so openly. It is what we need more of in the United States of America. I think we do need to hear from these Supreme Court justices. If they they don't need to be shadowy figures anymore. You know, they don't need to be ones where, you know, the idea that you can't have cameras in the court, that kind of thing. I I can get that some ways. But if we're going to start live streaming the audio, why can't we see it? Why haven't we gone that far? I think the American people deserve it. If you're going to be doing this, if you're going to already take these first steps, there's no reason why we can't have a couple camera people in there showing what's happening. There's no reason why we can't have a better response to when people complain about the Supreme Court of the United States. And again, we're pushing forward. We're pushing forward when it comes to the way technology is going to be involved. They've already changed how the court runs and operates right now. So the idea of adding extra justices, though it's a scary thought, and I know what the thought process is from the other side. Don't like laugh it off. It will be something that's going to come up, depending on what, you know, who you have controlling the government in the next couple months and then in the next couple of years.
Guest (Male): Well, right. And I I think that that is part of this first step for those that want to, as they say, reform the court in in reality, it's make it in their own image.
Logan Sekulow: They will say pack the court though.
Guest (Male): No, right. That's what I'm saying. Without even without even like, I mean, that sounds like something that you would only do if you were manipulating a system. If you were trying to create a fraudulent government, you would say words like pack the court. But they openly do. That's right. And when you you know that that is their goal, you know the types of of of candidates that they're running that are all on board with this idea. You're even hearing, you know, Kamala Harris who's going around campaigning for individuals saying that as well. And you know that she's looking at running for president again. So all of these things factor in that this midterm election is their first step at that goal. And I think this is one of their biggest goals. They talk about, you know, President Trump's made it the affordability crisis and all these things in their campaign speeches. But I think when you get to the heart of it, many people, this is their goal is to change the Supreme Court. So then anything else they do, they can get through with ease and that there will be no real check on their legislative and executive power. When they they always try to say, you know, the president's trying to be a king or or all these things that that you see Congress doing when it's the Republican majority. It always seems like they want to do what they accuse their opponents of doing. And I think that's what you'd see here if they win in November with a majority in the House and the Senate, which is looking like it could be a sweep for the Democrats in both.
Logan Sekulow: Now.
Guest (Male): Even Vice President Vance kind of said that this weekend, sort of, you know, it's not looking good. Numbers are not trending well. But that puts them in a really good position for the next presidential cycle, when they could get all of that done. It's the long game, but not that long. Four years total where the not even that, two more years from this cycle is when they could start getting that done if they are able to take back both houses of Congress and then win the presidency in 2028. So it it's a it's a wild time and to even hear the Supreme Court justice himself speaking about that. That is where it it does. It seems like these politicians are trying to intimidate the court of saying we are going to completely get rid of you and change the way that this is done if you don't go along with us.
Logan Sekulow: And look, we're going to get into the next segment how the ACLJ is involved, because look, the Supreme Court of the United States, the term starts today. It's always the first, you know, Monday in October. Here we are. We have 11 cases currently pending. I got a list of them before the Supreme Court, before the justices. I'm going to break down those and we get back. Some of the most important ones, obviously, all are important, but some of the ones that are more vital, what's happening right now, because the ACLJ, we're always in front of the Supreme Court of the United States in many different ways. And I need you to support the work. You know, we we're a lot of organizations come in here and complain. They'll come and they'll talk about what's going on. But we actually get the work done, and we're in front of this Supreme Court of the United States. Every year, this time, we got 11 potential cases in front of the Supreme Court of the United States this term. So I want you to be a part of it today. Because these stakes couldn't be higher. If you want to join with the ACLJ, make a donation today at ACLJ.org. Again, if you're not already a monthly supporter of the ACLJ, become an ACLJ ACLJ Champion. That's at ACLJ.org/champion, someone that gives every month, of course, you can cancel any time and it is tax deductible. But our attorneys are working day and night to help defend your liberty and we need your support. So again, go to ACLJ.org. And phone lines are still open for you and I want to hear from you at 1-800-684-3110. Be right back.
Announcer (Male): Welcome to the all-new ACLJ app. Expert analysis and insight Big Tech can't censor. Customize your news and get real-time alerts on the issues you care about. Advocacy is now at your fingertips. Take action, make a difference. Support the causes you care about with just one tap. Be the first to know. Breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Everything you need, all in one place. Stay informed, stay empowered. Download today. We are so excited to announce the ACLJ's brand new app. Completely redesigned to provide you with the best tools available to partner with us at the ACLJ. You can watch the daily Sekulow program, sign the petitions, customize your ACLJ membership experience, donate with the click of a button, and receive up to the minute critical updates that the mainstream media can't censor. Just scan the QR code on your screen or go to your phone's app store. Search ACLJ and click install. It's that simple. The challenges facing Americans are substantial. At a time when our values, our freedoms, and our constitutional rights are under attack, it's more important than ever to stand with the American Center for Law and Justice. For decades now, the ACLJ has been on the front lines, protecting your freedoms, defending your rights in courts, in Congress, and in the public arena. And we have an exceptional track record of success. But here's the bottom line. We could not do our work without your support. We remain committed to protecting your religious and constitutional freedoms. That remains our top priority, especially now during these challenging times. The American Center for Law and Justice is on your side. If you're already a member, thank you. And if you're not, well, this is the perfect time to stand with us at ACLJ.org, where you can learn more about our life-changing work. Become a member today. ACLJ.org.
Logan Sekulow: Welcome back to Sekulow. Phone lines are open. 1-800-684-3110. Again, the United States Supreme Court is where the ACLJ always shines and we have 11 current situations, pending cases where we have filed in, some are our cases, some we're also associated with. Again, 11. So when the Supreme Court term starts today, understand how important it is for our team here, because they are actively working. Our offices in Washington, D.C. are directly across from the Supreme Court of the United States. That is where the work is getting done. We have a couple different major offices, the major hubs. Of course, that is where our legal headquarters is and will be in Washington, D.C. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. I want to take actually one of these calls and then we're going to go through some of these cases. Let's go to Cliff, who's an ACLJ champion. Don't want him to wait too long. Cliff, you're on the air.
Cliff: Oh, thanks for taking my call. Listen, I'll I'll be brief, but like I had told the screener, I believe that what where what you're hitting at is having it more transparent for the Supremes and having it televised. I agree wholeheartedly. I think that would bring more integrity back and honesty. But but it can't be censored like the poll, you know, the pool like with traveling with the President or or not being able to show his speech when he's addressing the nation to be censored or or not even shown or or having somebody commenting over what's actually being done. I think a live feed and just listening would bring more integrity and openness and people can see actually what's happening of making the sausage in a way.
Logan Sekulow: I mean, I think a lot of people don't even know this, that as of the Justice Court.