Trump WINS at SCOTUS, Reshaping the Learning Landscape & What Moviegoers Love and Critics Ignore Week In Review

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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🏛️ Legal and Judicial Topics

Universal Injunctions & Trump’s Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship
- Discussion of a legal challenge to President Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship.
- Criticism of universal (nationwide) injunctions issued by district judges.
- Praise for a recent 6-3 Supreme Court decision (authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett) that limits the use of such injunctions.
Parental Rights in Education
- Supreme Court case involving Montgomery County, Maryland, where parents challenged a mandatory LGBTQ+ curriculum for young children.
- The Court ruled 6-3 in favor of parental rights, allowing parents to opt their children out based on religious grounds.

📚 Education Policy and School Choice

Expansion of 529 Savings Plans
- Legislation to allow up to $20,000 annually for K–12 education expenses.
Federal Tax Credit for School Scholarships
- Up to $1,700 tax credit for donations to scholarship-granting organizations.
- States must opt in; Texas expected to participate.

💰 Legislation and Budget Negotiations

Discussion of a major bill involving:
- Medicaid reforms (slowing growth, work requirements).
- Debt ceiling extension through President Trump’s term.
- Internal GOP negotiations, including key swing votes from Senators Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul.
- Frustration over compromises and increased spending to secure votes.

🎬 Cultural Commentary: Movies

Critique of a New York Times list of top movies as “anti-American” or “elitist.”
Personal recommendations of films from 2000–2025, including:
- Hidden Figures, La La Land, The Darkest Hour, Black Panther, Top Gun: Maverick, Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Praise for high-grossing films like Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Anecdote about a friend redecorating the senator’s room with Star Wars-themed bedding as a joke.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.4	Welcome, it is Verdeck with Ted Cruz.
0:07.6	Week in Review, Ben Ferguson, with you.
0:09.9	And I hope you are having a fabulous Fourth of July weekend with your family, being safe on the road if you're traveling as well.
0:16.6	We've got some major stories for you that you may have missed this Fourth of July week.
0:21.8	First up, major victories coming from the supreme court helping parents and also making sure that you
0:28.8	get to make decisions on what happens when your kids go to schools i'll have those details in a
0:34.1	moment also legislation on school choice made it into the big, beautiful bill.
0:40.5	There were many that wanted to get rid of it. And we'll give you the story behind how we kept it
0:45.3	in the bill. And finally, for a little fun for the 4th of July weekend, the last 10 great
0:51.8	movies of the 21st century given to you by none of than Senator Ted Cruz.
0:57.1	It's the week in review, and it starts right now.
1:00.5	All right, so let's start with Universal Injunctions and the Trump v. Casa case.
1:06.8	This is also, by the way, something that you chair the subcommittee hearing on that very issue earlier this month.
1:15.1	So explain why this is such an important issue for everyone listening.
1:20.3	Well, this is a case challenging President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.
1:26.5	Birthright citizenship is the law that says that a baby born in America is a U.S.
1:31.4	citizen, even if that baby's parents are illegally, even if they came illegally precisely
1:36.9	to have that baby in America, nonetheless, that baby is a U.S. citizen.
1:41.3	As a policy matter, I think that is a very foolish policy. It is a policy that incentivizes
1:48.8	illegal immigration. You see people, I spend a lot of time at the southern border. I go out on
1:54.2	midnight patrols with the border patrol agents. We see every day pregnant women coming across the border
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