Big Beautiful Wins

Today is a great day! The conservative Trump majority on the Supreme Court held strong and gave us three big, beautiful wins. If the president were a drinking man, he’d probably be opening a bottle of good bourbon now, but he’s not a drinking man. Here’s a brief summary of each case.

Reining In Rogue Judges

The biggest impediment to President Trump’s America First agenda has been left-wing rogue federal district court judges imposing nationwide injunctions against virtually everything he was elected to do. 

There are nearly 700 federal district court judges, and many of them have been acting like partisan hacks determined to overturn the 2024 election by judicial fiat.

In the first 100 days of his second term, federal district court judges issued 25 nationwide injunctions against Trump’s policies. Joe Biden faced 28 injunctions in his entire four-year term. 

Clearly, left-wing rogue judges have been abusing their power as a political weapon against Donald Trump, blocking virtually every major policy initiative – from the firing of federal employees to deporting illegal aliens.

The Supreme Court put a stop to that today in a case challenging the president’s executive order on birthright citizenship. 

As the administration requested during oral arguments, the justices sidestepped settling the issue of birthright citizenship and instead focused mostly on the issue of nationwide injunctions. In a 6 to 3 ruling, Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote: 

“…federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch; they resolve cases and controversies consistent with the authority Congress has given them. When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too.”

Further underscoring her point, Barrett responded to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent, writing, “We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.” BOOM!

My good friend, Justice Clarence Thomas, put it bluntly, “Today puts an end to the ‘increasingly common’ practice of federal courts issuing universal injunctions.”

Justice Barrett has disappointed conservatives lately for not being as reliable as we had hoped she would be. Her decision today is a big step in the right direction and helps restore some of her conservative credibility.

Parents & Children Win

Another big win came in a case from the “Soviet Republic” of Maryland, where left-wing politicians attempted to force LGBTQ indoctrination on young children in virtually every subject at school. 

That was bad enough, but leftists on the Montgomery County School Board went even further by eliminating all “opt-out” options. Parents from a broad coalition of faith backgrounds sued the county, lost, and appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. 

In a 6 to 3 opinion, the justices ruled that the Montgomery County School Board violated the rights of parents. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito declared:

“We have long recognized the rights of parents to direct ‘the religious upbringing’ of their children. . . those rights are violated by government policies that substantially interfere with the religious development of children. . . 

“The Board’s introduction of the ‘LGBTQ+-inclusive’ storybooks, along with its decision to withhold opt-outs, places an unconstitutional burden on the parents’ rights to the free exercise of their religion.”

“The Board should be ordered to notify them in advance whenever one of the books in question or any other similar book is to be used in any way and to allow them to have their children excused from that instruction.”

In their dissent, the three liberal justices argued that Montgomery County schools were right in “Exposing students to the ‘message’ that LGBTQ people exist.” Justice Alito blasted that deceptive reasoning as a “deliberately blinkered view” that “ignores the messages that the authors plainly intended to convey.”

These books are used to indoctrinate children (see below), even when the authors admit they are not meant for children.

Common Sense Prevails

Today’s final Big Beautiful Win comes from the Lone Star State. Texas legislators passed a commonsense law to protect children by requiring proof of age to access pornographic adult websites. With total disregard for the welfare of children, the porn industry sued to overturn the law.

Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the court’s 6 to 3 majority, stated, “The power to require age verification is within a State’s authority to prevent children from accessing sexually explicit content.”

Of course it is! We require proof of age to buy alcohol, firearms, and cigarettes. It’s just common sense to do the same to prevent children from being exposed to something else that is harmful to them.

As Justice Thomas noted, “Obscenity is no exception to the widespread practice of requiring proof of age to exercise age-restricted rights.”

Reid Still Rules

Former Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid died nearly four years ago. But even from the grave, he still rules the Senate. 

In 2012, Reid appointed Elizabeth MacDonough to the Senate parliamentarian. It’s her job to offer advice to senators from time to time on what the proper procedures are in certain circumstances, including the budget reconciliation process. 

But right now, as she rips the GOP reconciliation bill to shreds, she is wielding extraordinary power over President Trump’s agenda, power that she should not have. 

The parliamentarian cannot order the Senate to do anything. It is a copout for Majority Leader Thune to blindly obey whatever she says. In fact, Thune can and should fire her.

At a time when we are learning from Donald Trump how to fight and win again, this is another example of the establishment GOP caving in to the Left because they’re afraid someone will accuse them of not following the process. 

The last election was not about process. It was about saving the country!

MacDonough is taking her cues from Chuck Schumer and gutting the Big Beautiful Bill of necessary policies to address our out-of-control debt and roll back the Left’s cultural extremism. Why is Harry Reid’s choice still serving as parliamentarian? Why didn’t Mitch McConnell replace her? (I think we know why.)

She is acting like another appendage of the Deep State, exercising enormous power over the people and sabotaging the president’s agenda from the shadows. 

One of her most outrageous decisions was striking a provision preventing illegal aliens from accessing Medicaid, even though 71% of Americans don’t want illegal aliens getting Medicaid.

By blindly following what she says, senators are putting the viability of the Medicaid system in jeopardy and putting American citizens who rely on Medicaid for their healthcare at risk. 

Memo to Senator Thune: You wanted the job of being Majority Leader, and you got it. Now step up and lead! Fire Harry Reid’s parliamentarian!

Down The Slippery Slope

If you watched anything from the “lamestream media” yesterday, it was impossible to avoid the “celebration” of the 10-year anniversary of the legalization of same-sex marriage. 

Ten years ago, many people refused to accept the “slippery slope” argument against same-sex marriage: If society cannot define marriage, we won’t be able to define anything. 

Here we are 10 years later, and now we can’t define what a woman is. Men are invading women’s bathrooms, and boys are cheating in girls’ sports. That is not progress. It’s anarchy. It’s chaos. And our children are caught in the crossfire. 

But more and more people on the Left are starting to get it because they are realizing just how extreme and intolerant some in the LGBTQ crowd truly are.

Tune In To Family Talk

Tune in to Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk radio show. On today’s broadcast, former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and I discuss the Israel-Iran war and the significance of the U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Find station listings here. Listen online here.

Good News

• The Trump Justice Department is investigating doctors and three large hospitals for mutilating children under the guise of “gender-affirming care.” What a difference an election makes!
• The Trump administration is seriously cracking down on waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, “ordering a full audit of all government contracting officers . . . over the past 15 years.”
• The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of two teachers who were fired for opposing radical transgender ideology.
• The state of Colorado has backed off from previous threats to impose transgender ideology on a Christian summer camp for children.
• The Trump administration is suing the state of Minnesota for giving benefits to illegal aliens (in-state college tuition rates) that it does not give to American citizens from other states.