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BREAKING: Newsom's Power Faces Supreme Court Showdown

Sekulow

Jay Sekulow

Government, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

California Governor Gavin Newsom is waging war against a church in his state, levying COVID fines to bankrupt the congregation. The ACLJ is representing Calvary Chapel, filing a major appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court to defend the church. The Sekulow team discusses the ACLJ's latest SCOTUS battle, the fight for religious liberty in America, the ACLJ's legal work against the Biden Deep State – and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We got breaking news. Gavin Newsom's power faces a showdown with the ACLJ at the Supreme Court.

0:07.5

Keeping you informed and engaged. Now more than ever. This is Seculo.

0:14.5

We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments. Recall, 1--684-3-110. And now your host, Logan Secula. Welcome to Secula. We've got a pack show today. Will Haynes is joining me in studio, but my dad's calling in just a few minutes. My brother's going to be calling in in just a few minutes, zooming in. It really is going to be jam-packed. We're talking about a lot of the work of the ACLJ. And of course, today is election day for a lot of you,

0:41.5

Virginia and for New York City. This is going to be a big day where all eyes are going to be

0:46.4

on that later today. But for now, we have some big news of work that you, look, a lot of you

0:52.1

engaged yesterday with our kickoff of our freedom drive. And we want to say thank you to all of you who did. Of course, you can still get involved for the next month during this freedom drive. So be a part of it today at ACLJ.org. But a lot of you did. And look, the ACLJ work is hard at action, including today will. There is a big movement. We're going to talk about this with my dad in the next

1:11.5

segment because usually it's nice to hear the ACLJ, the Supreme Court, Gavin Newsom, all in the same

1:16.9

sentence. That's right. So we are taking on what is one of the bigger cases we've taken on in quite

1:22.4

some time. As we go to the Supreme Court, we'll be filing a cert petition, asking the Supreme Court to hear

1:29.2

our challenge as we work with others and this church, Calvary Chapel in San Jose, as the

1:37.2

Newsom regime in California is still trying to get $1.2 million in fines against this church under COVID restrictions.

1:51.7

So it's 2025. We're just a couple months from 26. And the Newsome regime in California is still

2:00.0

fighting in court trying to take the tithes away from

2:04.6

this church to the tune of $1.2 million over what they allege were violations of COVID protocols back in 2020.

2:17.1

Now, you also remember that they were handing out exemptions left and right for secular

2:22.4

activities.

2:23.4

You also remember that the governor himself famously went to French laundry, high-end restaurant

2:29.7

so that he could have a good time.

2:32.9

Meanwhile, if you wanted to exercise your First Amendment right to worship God,

2:38.7

they are now coming after this church for $1.2 million.

2:44.5

I don't think that we can say that fine number enough because it is so egregious.

2:49.0

You realize they are taking the tithes from the church,

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