Why We Should Designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization, plus IRS Concludes Churches Can Endorse Candidates & NYT Reports Biden Unaware of Many Autopen Pardons

Verdict with Ted Cruz

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🗓️ 16 July 2025

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Designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a Terrorist Organization
- Senator Cruz discusses his long-standing effort to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group.
- He outlines the organization's history, global reach, and alleged ties to terrorism.
- The conversation critiques past U.S. administrations, particularly the Obama and Biden administrations, for their handling of the Brotherhood.
- Cruz introduces a “modernized” version of his bill using a “bottom-up” approach to target specific violent branches first.

IRS Ruling on Churches and Political Endorsements
- The IRS has agreed that churches and pastors can endorse political candidates without risking their tax-exempt status.
- This is framed as a major shift from the Johnson Amendment, which previously discouraged political speech from the pulpit.
- The discussion includes a personal anecdote from Cruz about defending pastors in Houston who were subpoenaed for their sermons.
Biden Autopen Scandal
- The New York Times reported that President Biden used an autopen to sign pardons without personally reviewing each case.
- Cruz argues that this could render many of those pardons legally invalid under DOJ guidelines.
- The conversation speculates on the legal and political implications, including potential challenges to the pardons.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. It's nice to have you.
0:10.5	And, Senator, we've got some very interesting legislation that you are heading up that is making waves.
0:17.6	Fill people in on what you're wanting to do.
0:20.0	Well, this week I introduced legislation
0:22.2	to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. This is a fight I've been
0:27.8	fighting for over a decade. I think the Muslim Brotherhood clearly is a terrorist organization.
0:32.6	It is profoundly dangerous. And I think we are closer right now to victory on this issue than we ever have been.
0:39.1	We're going to do a deep dive, explain the background, what the issues are, why we're close to
0:44.8	victory, and what that would mean. We're also going to talk about an amazing development, a really
0:49.5	important development, which is the IRS has now said explicitly that churches and pastors can endorse
0:58.4	political candidates. That is a big, big deal. For a long time, there was legislation known
1:05.4	as the Johnson Amendment that was interpreted as stripping the ability of pastors and churches
1:09.8	to express their views on
1:11.6	politics. The IRS entered into a consent agreement that now makes clear churches and pastors
1:17.7	can tell their congregations exactly what they think about politics. That's a big, big deal.
1:25.3	And finally, the New York Times in a shocking expose looked at the Biden
1:32.1	auto-pen scandal. And they reported that for a significant portion of the auto-penned pardons that
1:40.1	Joe Biden signed, that he was not individually aware of who it was that was getting
1:46.4	pardoned. That is incredibly consequential. It means as a legal matter, those pardons are null and
1:53.1	void. We're going to explain all of that right now. Yeah, it's a really interesting story.
1:57.6	We're going to have all those details for you in just a moment. Let me also just say many of you may be listening to the show for the first time,
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