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Federal Judge Showdown

Sekulow

Jay Sekulow

Government, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Federal Judge Showdown.

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0:00.0

We've got breaking news and a rare occurrence of federal judge slams judicial activism.

0:06.1

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

0:13.1

We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments. Recall 1-800-684-3-110. And now your host, Logan Secular. Welcome to Seculo. We're back, Will Haines is in studio with me. Mike Pompeo is going to be joining us. And my brother, Jordan Seculo, will be joining us from our D.C. headquarters and our studio there to go over some of the new work that the ACLJ is doing right now. I think that's some amazing stuff going on. You're going to want to stay tuned for that. That being said, you may have seen the headline, may have heard my little tease there. That's right. There's a federal judge out there. Well, there's at least one who's saying, I don't think we should be getting involved so much in this judicial activism. and so much so I'm going to put pin to paper and put it in one of my rulings because this is why we have a federal judge on Monday who denied

0:58.1

a request by a main family planning provider this was someone who said hey we provide abortions

1:02.9

we're not planned parenthood we shouldn't be stripped of our federal fundings because we're not

1:06.1

planned parenthood and here they are and of course that judge stuck his neck out quite a bit.

1:11.6

That's right. So in this case, this is in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine,

1:16.7

this judge put an order down on a preliminary injunction that was requested by the Maine

1:23.1

Family Planning Association. They wanted a preliminary injunction to stop the defunding of their work,

1:29.9

their abortion business. And what this judge goes to show in denying that preliminary injunction,

1:36.7

so effectively saying they are still defunded by the Big Beautiful Bill, he didn't just stop

1:43.1

at saying, here's my rational basis for why I'm denying this preliminary injunction.

1:48.2

He writes at length about why it is not the role of the judiciary to do this,

1:55.3

including lines like this.

1:58.1

Undoubtedly, most of the public that is outraged by Congress's defunding of, quote,

2:02.5

prohibited entities will feel as though they do because they find the provision unwise, unfair,

2:08.2

and illogical. In fact, much of plaintiff's arguments turns on a public policy critique of the

2:14.4

prohibited entities portion of the Big Beautiful bill. However, unwise the prohibition of Medicaid funding to providers best position to deliver Medicaid services to underserved rural populations,

2:25.3

the judicial branch, despite much generated confusion on this basic point, does not serve as an omnibus super legislature to sit in final judgment

2:39.6

as to which policy outcomes it prefers.

2:43.7

That judgment rests with the people.

2:46.6

We'll get to more of this,

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