SCOTUS Denies Trump’s Nat Guard Move plus Beagles on Drugs & Bug Buffets, the Festivus Report

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Supreme Court Decision on National Guard Deployment
- A recent Supreme Court ruling (6–3 decision) denying Trump’s request to federalize Illinois National Guard troops to assist ICE agents in Chicago.
- The legal reasoning: lack of statutory authority for the President to use military forces to enforce laws in Illinois.
- Dissenting opinions by Justices Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch, emphasizing concerns about protecting federal officers.
Criticism of Sanctuary Cities
- Strongly argue against sanctuary city policies, labeling them as harmful to American citizens.
- Trump’s intent to deploy the National Guard is a measure to protect lives, even in liberal areas.
Government Waste and Rand Paul’s Festivus Report
- Highlights Senator Rand Paul’s annual report exposing wasteful federal spending, totaling over $1.6 trillion (including interest on debt).
- Examples include:
  - $40 million for COVID-19 vaccine promotion after the pandemic ended.
  - $1.5 million for promoting U.S. media overseas.
  - $13.8 million for beagle experiments.
  - $14 million for monkey video game experiments.
  - $1 million for ferret binge-drinking studies.
  - $7.5 billion for EV infrastructure with only 68 charging stations built.
  - $22.6 billion on migrant benefits.
- Critiques gain-of-function research and animal testing funded by NIH and other agencies.
Economic Performance and Trump’s Policies
- Celebrates strong GDP growth (4.3% in Q3 2025) and improved consumer spending.
- Tariffs, tax policies, and technology-driven productivity are getting stronger
- There is steep contrast in Trump’s approach with Biden-era inflation and spending.
- Inflation is trending downward (PCE index at ~2.8%), there is growth without runaway inflation.
- Compares current economic conditions to Reagan-era growth and late-1990s tech boom.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.8	Where do we even start now when it comes to the victories that the president has given us
0:11.1	and how the media continues to have egg on their face as they lie and they get it wrong?
0:16.4	We also know that the president of the United States of America has had to fight other battles.
0:23.8	That includes the legal battles that are coming at him as Democrats will appeal on anything to the Supreme Court.
0:32.2	Now, the Supreme Court has ruled against President Donald Trump's plan to federalize and send 300 Illinois National
0:40.4	Guardsmen to the sanctuary city of Chicago to help protect immigration and customs enforcement
0:44.7	agents from the violent rioters there. You've got to understand in Chicago and in Illinois,
0:50.7	you've got a hardcore leftist radical governor in Pritzker, who doesn't care
0:56.5	that he was the death capital of America in Chicago.
1:00.2	Now, in October, Trump had sought to deploy the National Guard to assist ICE agents,
1:04.0	but a federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden blocked the effort with a temporary
1:08.9	restraining order when the Trump administration asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to stay
1:15.1	the judge's order, the panel of judges denied the administration's plea.
1:20.5	That is when the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to stay the federal judge's order
1:25.8	so National Guardsmen could be deployed to Chicago.
1:29.2	Well, this week, SCOTUS ruled in a 6-3 decision that the Trump administration,
1:34.8	quote, has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute
1:40.3	laws, the laws in Illinois, and therefore the administration's application for stay was denied. Now, at the preliminary stage, the laws in Illinois, and therefore the administration's application for a stay was denied.
1:46.7	Now, at the preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source, they say,
1:50.3	of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois. The president has not
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