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All right guys let's jump into some good news David's first stuff what's our first piece of good news going to be David one part of the country we headed to for that good news.

This comes out of a situation in Texas has been going for a number of years there's a judge down in Montgomery County and he has opened his court with prayer for a long time he allows voluntary chaplains voluntary folks ministers to come in and say a prayer and it rotates he doesn't have an official chaplain but he just let somebody from the community do that and so it was challenged as you can imagine with some of the freedom from religion foundation folks and so they said you can't do that you can't open with prayer.

And so it's interesting that it's gone through a lot of decisions that we were asked to get involved with it part of what the Supreme Court did at the Bladensburg decision few years ago on keeping the cross up at the War Memorial in Maryland they said look if there's historical precedent for this then we're going to go with historical precedent and by the way we've seen that even recently with the brewing decision on the second amendment that you've had a judge in in New York go and say well you know I don't really agree with that.

I really agree with with where this is leading but Justice Thomas and that decision said you got to go with what the second amendment was at the time it was ratified in 1791 and in that particular case it dealt with the fact that a new New York they're saying hey if you don't have a serial number on a gun that guns illegal and he said you know what there weren't serial numbers in 1791 so New York's laws unconstitutional because the founding fathers didn't require serial numbers.

So the fact that they're going back to history in a number of areas is a really healthy thing as far as keeping judicial activism out of the people don't like it then the people can change the process constitutionally the way they should but you shouldn't have a judge stepping through or legislate your stepping through and say hey because we disagree with what the proper procedure is we're going to make some activist stuff here.

And so what we see in Texas is this came down and the court said look if there's long standing historical precedent this thing's okay and so what happened was they asked us to get involved so we went through and we started back in the 1790s were that literally you had at that point in time Supreme Court just as having prayer in the US Supreme Court chamber so this is what they stepped into and this is what they thought should occur and what they thought should happen and then we just went decade after decade after decade all the way through the 1980s.

Judges were still having prayer in court room and they've been having for over 200 years so that got in that went to the court and in the fifth circuit court of appeals they came back and said no no no this is absolutely within the parameters of what we've historically done in America we're not going to change it just because a group disagrees with it this is this is what the the constitution recognized and accepted this practice at the time of the constitution those who did the constitution thought it was completely legitimate to do it.

The guys on the US Supreme Court James Wilson who signed the constitution I mean these other guys that they're having prayer William Patterson who signed the constitution they're having prayer in the court room they didn't see any problem with it so the good news is that now the fifth circuit has upheld this and this appears to be the final word on it I don't think there's any way the Supreme Court's going to pick this up because they've already made it pretty clear they're going to historical precedent so really good news out of Texas and out of the fifth circuit and this this judge in Texas gets to keep having for

prayer and having just volunteer chaplains come in and pray to open this court which is great.

All right so good news out of Texas I can I interject good news from New York does that feel weird would you'll be shocked if I gave good news from New York you probably already have it on your list anyway somebody's going to talk about it I just I love this a New York judge has basically told the city you're ruling on firing people because they didn't get the vaccine was arbitrary and capricious it's what we've been saying all this time so thankfully a lot of these city employees going to get high

hired back and back pay you know David you you said this yesterday in our foundation of freedom program that a lot of this stuff has taken years and we're finally getting there well more good news on that front just to add to that Rick I sent you're talking about where things coming out of the state you don't expect it like New York early this week as in California and then we went to Nevada and looking you know doing things there to help folks and in California a ruling came down from a judge in California that protected a Christian Baker from not having a

do a gay wedding in California and that's like no that that's not possible how can that be possible in California was that Tim's that what you were about I'm just saying both you guys are taking stuff that are articles in my stack and I'm not offended but I'm getting a little bothered I'm having to now rearrange my stack a little bit guys come on come on come on

Tim taking a he's doing up what David covered that one up Rick got jumping did that one I'm I'm not yeah

This is a really goofy time in our history and there's a lot of good news despite the guvian if that that's that's good

Well and most of the time you know I don't I don't know at all the stories you guys share like I haven't heard them anywhere

I don't have it's seen them on any news sites so maybe that's a good sign too that some of this good news is being reported more

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