Supreme Court Rules in Gerrymandering & Free Speech Cases

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (06/27/2023):

3:05pm- On Monday night, CNN and The New York Times obtained audio of former President Donald Trump describing “highly confidential” military documents pertaining to Iran. The audio is from July 2021, and was made while Trump was speaking with writers doing research for a Mark Meadows memoir. In the recording, Trump can be heard saying of the documents: “As president I could have declassified it, but now I can’t.” But does the audio definitively prove he mishandled sensitive information?

3:10pm- According to an NBC News poll, Vice President Kamala Harris has a net-negative approval rating of -17—which is the lowest rating for any vice president in the history of the poll. The poll also indicates that 39% of registered voters have a “very negative” view of Harris. You can find the poll here: https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/desantis-gop-support-declining-new-nbc-poll-rcna91102

3:30pm- How did CNN and The New York Times obtain leaked audio of former President Donald Trump discussing “highly confidential” documents? The audio is presumably a key component to the Department of Justices’ case against Trump. Fox News commentator Kayleigh McEnany referred to the leak as “violative of the process.”

3:40pm- Jason Snead—Executive Director of Honest Elections Project—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in Moore v. Harper. The 6-3 ruling determines that state legislatures do not have unilateral control when constructing voting districts—and that state courts can rule on gerrymandering suits.

4:05pm- According to Brandon Drey of The Daily Wire, on Monday “[t]he House Weaponization Subcommittee released an interim staff report detailing how President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) allegedly used the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to surveil and censor Americans’ speech on social media in the run-up of the 2020 election and the 2022 midterm elections.” You can read the full article here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-colluded-with-big-tech-to-censor-americans-house-lawmakers-report-says

4:10pm- Brett Tolman— Executive Director for Right on Crime & former U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Hunter Biden’s plea deal with the Department of Justice. Tolman states, “I’ve reviewed data on 189,000 firearm possession cases by DOJ…among all cases prosecuted by DOJ less than 1% were resolved by a diversion.”

4:35pm- On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in Counterman v. Colorado, reversing the conviction of Billy Raymond Counterman who had been convicted of making threats to a singer named Coles Whalen. The court ruled that “free speech protections require prosecutors to prove the stalker was aware of the threatening nature of his communications,” according to The Washington Post. You can read more about the court’s decision here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/27/supreme-court-true-threat-stalking/

4:50pm- According to Real Clear Politics, the White House “scrubbed” video of Today News Africa’s Simon Ateba confronting Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during Monday’s press briefing.

4:55pm- While appearing on Bill Maher’s podcast, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued that “there was no time in history where the people censoring free speech were the good guys. They were always the bad guys.”

5:05pm- Zack De Piero—a former writing professor at Penn State University—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss how, according to his lawsuit, he was forced from his job after refusing to accept that the English language is “racist.” De Piero also alleges that he drew the school’s ire by refusing to consider the immutable characteristics of students, like race or gender, when grading tests and essays. You can read more about the story here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/professor-says-college-official-told-him-there-is-a-problem-with-the-white-race-files-lawsuit

5:20pm- Caroline Downey of National Review writes, “[a] Colorado-based law firm filed a federal civil-rights complaint last week objecting to a recent “Black” graduation ceremony at the University of California- Berkeley, alleging that the school violated a federal law prohibiting institutions that receive government funding from discriminating based on race.” You can read her article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/colorado-law-firm-files-complaint-with-education-department-over-uc-berkeleys-black-graduation/

5:25pm- Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney’s executive assistant has an OnlyFans account?!

5:45pm- In the Wall Street Journal, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wrote an editorial condemning the Espionage Act—calling it “one of the most un-American laws Congress ever enacted.” You can read Ramaswamy’s full piece here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-espionage-acts-ugly-un-american-history-trump-spies-leakers-law-america-dissent-c9ab63f7?mod=opinion_lead_pos6

5:50pm- Former President Donald Trump reacted to leaked audio of him allegedly bragging about possessing “highly confidential” military documents after he left office—he insists that he “did nothing wrong.”

6:05pm- The Philadelphia Inquirer attacks the parental rights non-profit “Moms for Liberty”—baselessly referring to it as an organization that bans books.

6:25pm- According to reports, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection is considering rules that would require some of the city’s most famous pizzerias to cut carbon emissions by 75%—specifically targeting coal-fired and wood-fired pizza ovens, citing pollutants released during the cooking process. One New Yorker, Scott LoBaido, hurled slices of pizza at City Hall on Monday in protest—calling it “The New York Pizza Party” in homage to “The Boston Tea Party.”

6:50pm- Climate activists are now concerned about the environmental impact of…ICE!

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0:30.0	$500 million. What's another $500 million among friends, right? $500 million on top of a hundred and whatever billion dollars we've already sent. And the 6.2 billion we sent last week that was an accounting error for pickles we bought that actually turned out to we didn't get the pickle order so we sent Ukraine the money instead. Welcome to the show glad you're here today 855-839-1210 on Twitter at rich.
1:00.0	It's just an infuriating to me how we have zero strategy, zero policy, zero congressional input. This is Joe Biden's war and Joe Biden's war alone. And the Congress is not doing anything to have any oversight on this and it is just insane. It really is insane.
1:19.0	So you heard in the CBS news about the smoking gun of Donald Trump's audio call. Let me give you a couple thoughts on that first of all the first stop being how who obtained how did CNN get this audio leak? How did CNN get it? Who from the Department of Justice is leaking this information is my question?
1:36.0	Who? This is a major deal. It should be a serious investigation into that the media is not at all interested in that. Of course.
1:43.0	Secondly, okay, we've talked about this before so he says look at this secret document over here. This is really secret stuff.
1:53.0	Do we know that actually what he was showing them was in fact secret? We don't even know if that document exists. We don't even know what document that they're talking about.
2:02.0	So I mean, the guy who uses war hyperbole in conjecture than anybody else is on audio tape saying, whoa, I got secret stuff here. Look at all this secret stuff.
2:12.0	Okay. I mean, and that means that he actually was showing people secret stuff. But I can't help but go back to it. It's not what about us. And it's actually the thing about the law is what about this other case?
2:24.0	We look at these other cases and go, what about that? So it's not what about is a mission. It's about what about the time that a judge said this or what about a time a jewelry rule that those things in law call precedent.
2:36.0	But what about the time that the Justice Department declined to pursue charges against Joe Biden for having classified documents in his garage that theoretically Hunter could have showed people we have no idea.
2:48.0	We have no idea. We have no idea. But again, we're just going to assume that Hunter Biden never went near those that box of documents. And so that's the end of it. It's fine. It's all good. It's all fine.
2:59.0	This is not the smoking gun that everybody in the media is making it out to be. It's not. Oh, Lordy, there's tapes. Remember James Comey? Oh, Lordy, I hope there's tapes. Well, this we knew there was an audio recording that was in the government's indictment.
3:13.0	They said there was. So shocking that we heard the audio of this. All right. Nobody doubted the audio. What they're doubting is the document and whether that document exists. That's always been the question. This doesn't change anything.
3:25.0	But what it does change is the question of who leaked this to CNN? Who did somebody explain that to me? How did they get this information?
3:34.0	And if we had a media that actually cared about trying to figure that stuff out as a man is fighting for his, his, to prove his life, I mean, really his innocence, because he could be sent away to federal prison for the rest of his life.
3:46.0	You would think possibly now the media would care if this would then impact taint the jury, for example, or heard his ability to get a fair trial, but they're not interested in that. The civil libertarians out there are not interested in that either.
4:01.0	So there you go. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is so unpopular, but he's not nearly as unpopular as Kamala Harris is unpopular, because Kamala Harris is really, really, really super duper unpopular.
4:15.0	She is the most unpopular vice president with a negative 17 approval rating. Yeah, that's, that's what it is. It's so bad. I mean, this is, this is a really bad time right now to be Kamala Harris.
4:28.0	And to be the Democrats in general, because the truth of the matter is when you look at it, when you think about if they want to replace Joe Biden, they could be replacing Joe Biden with somebody who is deeply more unpopular than he is.
4:41.0	Kamala Harris has received the worst rating in the history of the latest NBC poll, earning a negative net rating of negative 17 in her first two years of office, negative 17.
4:57.0	This is such a problem for them, but they have a woke problem, which is what I talked about last week on Fox News Saturday night, which Jimmy Phala, the problem for them is if they replace her, woke goes crazy, because it's the first black woman on the on the ticket on the vice president.
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