Nowadays, you cite the law like it's an opinion columnist who's chiming in on this.

Their opinion is that he can't do this, but, you know, that's just one view.

We'll see.

The court finds it inconceivable, but the Department of Justice, which holds a duty to faithfully execute the laws of the United States, even those with which it may have disagreement, would repeatedly ignore court orders while simultaneously prosecuting citizens for breaking the law.

Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1228. I'm Thomas Smith. That over there is

real life immigration attorney Matt Cameron. How are you doing, Matt? Well, a judge hasn't told me that I'm not

allowed to appear in court today, so pretty good. Better than Lindsay Halligan. Ah, I suspect we get a little bit,

we get to enjoy a thing today. A little update. Yeah, that's a fun one. That's a fun one. But I'm looking forward to taking my Greenlandic vacation now that, you know, I'm sure we can just waltz on over. This is so stupid. It's so stupid. It's so stupid and it seems to be continuing to stupid and it might stupid all the way to something happening. That's how stupid it is. Yeah. And it only got stupid or in Davos as at the time of recording. We could talk a little about that. But I've actually always wanted to go to Greenland. Not as a U.S. territory, though. I wanted to visit Denmark, which is what it should be. So I want to talk a little bit about the legal stuff because there is actually some interesting legal issues around the Danish thing. Obviously, there is no actual claim to Greenland that we have. Just be clear. This is not a contrarian defense of the Greenland invasion. It does start getting weird, though, and this is, again, not to defend anything, any idiot Trump person is saying, but it does get weird when you start having those arguments and then you go into like wait why does anyone own anything you're like you don't deserve

to have I'm like well I guess wait who does deserve this I guess whoever was there maybe the indigenous

people I guess probably deserve it you go back far enough it's weird yeah and and then it'll get

weird with that too because like like, that's probably the right answer.

But then you're like, well, wait, did they take it from somebody?

I don't know.

Maybe you could keep going and going. I'm not sure. Who knows? But one way or the other, I know we don't deserve it. So don't worry. And I'm settled on that question. No. But it is kind of interesting to think about. I have a theory. I just saw some people talking about this, and I wonder if you agree.

I really strongly believe this all could be because of the Mercator or Mercator, whatever, map projection. Like, I genuinely think it might be that when he looks at a map and it's the, how do you pronounce that, Mercator or Mercator? I never know. I think it's Mercator. Yeah. Mercator projection, one way or the other, Greenland looks enormous. Like, it looks just huge. It's not that big. It's just, can someone get this man a globe or that one where they peel it like an orange, you know, and they put the map on the orange slices? There's that one. Get them that. Pretty much the size of the Midwest.

It's not any bigger than that, really. It's a lot of land, but it's not America size. I mean, it's, yeah, it's big, but that has to have some amount to do with this, right? There's no way it's not partially that. Oh, yeah. Got to be. That or, I mean, it's just, you know, he has a bad brain. I think that's a pretty good explanation too.

Yeah. Same tomato tomato. Yeah. That's true.

Mercator, Macada. You know, he has a bad brain. I think that's a pretty good explanation. Yeah. Same, same tomato tomato.

Yeah.

That's true.

Mercator, Macotter.

That's right.

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