Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

But no bastard ever won war by dying for his country.

You want it?

By making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Welcome to Case and Point. I'm Hans von Spakovsky, a lawyer here at the Heritage Foundation,

and the title of our episode today is The Game of Risk when judges think they're admirals. Now, the original name was going to be

when judges think they're generals, but because our special guest is a Navy veteran, I changed

that to admirals on your behalf, Cully. For those of you who didn't recognize the clip that we

just played, that is from the 1970 movie about General George Patton.

The actor was, of course, George C. Scott. And that clip was him talking about the importance

of what our military members do, which is to protect this country. And what we're going to

talk about today is the problem of when judges interfere in the

military coming up with the standards that are needed to make sure that our military personnel

are the best trained, best equipped, and best military force in the world to protect us from

the brutal regimes and the terrorists that exist all over the world.

What we're going to be talking about is a decision that just came out in the District of

Columbia, Talbot versus U.S.

The federal judge was a woman named Anna Rays,

a judge with absolutely no experience whatsoever in the military,

a Harvard lawyer, a Biden appointee.

And by the way, I should say before we discuss this,

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