So a federal judge on Tuesday threw out an unusual lawsuit the Trump administration brought earlier this year against all 15 federal judges in Maryland. But the judge didn't just throw the suit out. He absolutely eviscerated Trump for even trying to bring it in the first place, [00:00:17] calling it potentially calamitous. The lawsuit was an attempt by the DOJ to limit the court's powers in fast moving immigration cases. So here's the reporting. The Justice Department sued all federal judges on the lower, lower level District Court of Maryland in late June after the court's chief judge [00:00:36] put in place a rule that would automatically and temporarily block the Trump administration from removing an immigration detainee from the US if the detainee had gone to court to challenge their removal. The Justice Department argued that the temporary pause impeded the president's [00:00:54] authority to enforce immigration laws. This is actually relevant in the current case against Kilmer Abrego Garcia because the Trump administration wanted to deport him again immediately after his return from El Salvador. But Abrego Garcia filed a new case in Maryland which triggered [00:01:13] the protection from the court against immediate deportation. Plus, among the judges named in the lawsuit was Paula, who in March found that the Trump administration illegally deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador in the first place. Judge Thomas Cullen, who was appointed by Trump, laid into the administration, [00:01:33] writing in his opinion that the Justice Department couldn't pursue a constitutional free for all. He argues that the government lacked standing to bring the challenge, and that the Maryland judges are immune from these kinds of suits brought by the executive branch, he wrote. [00:01:49] Any fair reading of the legal authorities cited by defendants leads to the in a in a Ineluctable conclusion that this court has no alternative but to dismiss. To hold otherwise would run counter to overwhelming precedent, depart from [00:02:08] longstanding constitutional tradition, and defend the rule of law. Much of the much as the executive fights the characterization, a lawsuit by the executive branch of government against the judicial branch for the exercise of judicial power is not ordinary. [00:02:24] Whatever the merits of its grievance with the judges of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, the executive must find a proper way to raise those concerns. And that's not all. In the footnotes of his ruling, Coughlin also blasted the Trump [00:02:41] administration for trying to smear the justice system overall. He said over the past several months, principal officers of the executive and their spokespersons have described federal district judges across the country as left wing Liberal, [00:02:56] activist, radical, politically minded, rogue, unhinged, outrageous, overzealous and unconstitutional, crooked and worse. Although some tensions between the coordinate branches of government is a hallmark of our constitutional system, this concerted effort by the executive to smear and impugn individual judges [00:03:16] who rule against it is both unprecedented and unfortunate. The Trump administration has already vowed to challenge Collins ruling, and there was a lot of words that were thrown out there. But it's true. We've seen this time and time again. [00:03:31] It's a lot of unprecedented stuff. A lot of stuff, a lot of crooked stuff. They're just saying they they have all these buzzwords that they use at the Trump administration. Trump and his spokespeople, everybody, they're all on message all the time. [00:03:48] They know how to politicize anything that they don't like going in their favor. So, you know, we're used to seeing this. We're used to seeing them attempt to weaponize the DOJ and attempt to weaponize various aspects of government. And they they oftentimes have a lot of success doing that, unfortunately, [00:04:05] and especially since, you know, the Supreme Court doesn't seem to be helping the American people very much either. But in this case, you know, he has hit a roadblock. And so that is very encouraging. And, you know, especially here, we're hearing kind of like a tone shift where at least this judge is just over it. [00:04:23] You know, he just feels tired. He's like, oh my god. Like this again. Like another left wing radical liberal judge, whoever you know, like we're tired of it. We get we get the the playbook. You know, we've all been playing the same game for so long and it's like, why can't we get ahead of it? [00:04:39] And this judge is just like, it's it ends with me here. Especially in the case with Abrego. Garcia, that was such a nightmare for the Trump administration because they goofed it so badly. It was such an embarrassment to to Trump and his administration [00:04:54] and to all of these new policies he was going to roll out and to ice. You know, it was a complete disaster. They tried desperately to spin it, and even that didn't work. You know, they tried to say after the fact, well, he was a really dangerous criminal. So it's a good thing that we actually, unconstitutionally [00:05:12] deported him to El Salvador, but even that didn't really stick. And then once he finally came back, they tried to do it again, and they were unable to do so. So there are small victories to be parsed out from all of the chaos that we are currently experiencing here in this country. We're going to get to some some less fortunate stuff happening a little bit, [00:05:30] but I guess we can celebrate this. In the meantime, Jake. Yeah. For now. So, look, do I want the president to be aggressive? Overall, yeah, I do. So I think that Biden was not nearly aggressive enough. No Democrat ever is. They get into office and go, well, you're gonna have to push me to do [00:05:47] even the simplest thing that we promised. You know why? Why do I have to push you? I pushed by getting you elected. Now it's your job to do this. And Democrats are always like, nope, not going to do it, not going to do it. So they're super frustrating. And so when Trump comes in and fires off a thousand executive orders, [00:06:03] this, that and the other thing, the country kind of likes it because it looks like there's action being taken, closing the border, going after undocumented criminals. ET cetera. ET cetera. But the problem with Trump is that he there, he wants infinite power and it's never enough. [00:06:19] He has no respect for the rule of law, the Constitution, our democracy or any of that. So it's the pendulum swings from the Democrats who barely try to do anything ever right to Trump, who's like, oh, Constitution, what name? [00:06:35] So I don't care. So this is a great example of it. What is this? Well, you're suing judges because you didn't like their decision. That's not a thing. You just made that up. What? That's why the judge is like, brother, I don't even know what you're talking about. [00:06:53] Like what? What do you want me to do here? It's like you're like saying, okay, I'd like to sue the dinosaurs on Mars, but there are no dinosaurs on Mars, and you have no jurisdiction over Mars. And I don't know what the hell you're talking about. [00:07:08] What does it mean to sue these judges? There's a proper way that you go through a legal process. So you don't agree with a court, you appeal it, and then that gets appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court. That is normal. Are you going? I don't like those judges. I'm gonna sue them. [00:07:24] It's not a thing. It's literally not a thing. So what? What is this? What do you want now? Some now. Extra constitutional. Meaning? Something past the Constitution. Powers that are not defined at all and don't exist. [00:07:40] So that's why the judge was like this would lead to a constitutional free for all. And what that means is any president could come in and go, okay, since I'm not following the Constitution at all and I'm just making things up, then I just, you know what? I'm not just suing them, I'm putting them in jail. [00:07:59] Why not? Because I'm making things up. There was no power to sue them and there's no power to jail them. The minute you give me a power to sue them, I take the next level and the next level and just we talk like we talked about in the last story. The Supreme Court said, okay, strip away the independence of anyone, you know, [00:08:18] working, in favor of the law and in, in favor of justice and the American people and not for the president. So Justice Department, a whole bunch of, bureaus that are looking to stop Wall Street crimes, white collar crimes, etc. We're going to take that away. But we're so balanced. [00:08:35] We're so balanced. You know what? We're going to preserve the independence of the Federal Reserve. So they give Trump 95% of what he wants, and probably that dumbass John Roberts who, like almost everybody in Washington, keeps thinking, no, it'll go back to normal. I'm sure it'll go back to normal. I'm sure this will satiate him. [00:08:52] And then what does he Trump do? No, I want no gobble. Gobble gobble up power. So now he wants to fire, people in the Federal Reserve that he doesn't have the power to do. And he keeps telling you, I don't care about your stinking laws. I don't care about your stinking constitution or your stinking democracy. [00:09:09] I'm not going to listen to any of these laws. Well, then you're not the president because the president has to abide by the law. You're a wannabe dictator. And so, look, do I think that he's going to eventually become actually go for it? Okay, he's got the military in the streets and just start ignoring the courts, [00:09:28] just make voting near impossible and then pretend he won the, the elections in 2026, his party did, etc.. I yeah, I think he's gonna I don't think he's going to just go and try to do all of that overnight. [00:09:43] I think he's going to try to slowly. And it's not that slow, by the way. Boil the frog as he's doing now. And the question is, does our democracy hold, does our system and does our Constitution hold? So today's a good day because this is one of our court's holding and saying, no, [00:10:01] you don't just get to make up the law. That's not a thing. You're an idiot. Okay. So that is wonderful news. We have to have the courts hold. And yes, we all in the media have an enormously important job. Because if in the media you go, oh, yeah, maybe the president gets [00:10:19] to make up things that don't exist. And yeah, yeah, maybe he just has magic powers. Well, then people will get used to it and think, well, of course you elect the president. He has magic powers. And by the way, he's already done that a million times. Oh, I laser eyed the documents. They're now unclassified. [00:10:35] He once said, if I even think about it. But don't tell anyone. They're unclassified. Not a thing. Not a thing. Doesn't make any goddamn sense. So unfortunately, some people in media were like, oh, of course you laser eyes, your brain eyes and your brain lasers and that's it. [00:10:52] And you don't need any laws anymore? No, no, no. So it's our job in the media to say, hey, you know what? And by the way, you have to be credible. And you have to be honest. If every time Trump sneezes, you call him a dictator. Nobody's going to believe you. They're going to think you're crying wolf. So you know where the line is. [00:11:09] Don't exaggerate. Don't do hyperbole. But when he actually crosses the line, we should all come down like a ton of bricks on him. And thank God this judge did. Yeah, well, first of all, I'm still laughing at the idea of Martian jurisdiction, so thanks for that, Jake. [00:11:24] No, but, you know, like we we all learn as children that throwing tantrums is not the way to get what you want. But Trump, that's what he does. And he gets what he wants most of the time. You know. And so I don't know how this is going to help people who are trying to teach their kids, you know, how to act in public. [00:11:39] But you know he's not a great role model, and I think most Americans can agree with that. But to your point about, you know, powerful leaders, I get it, because I'm tired of getting nothing but empathy from our Democratic leaders. It's like the equivalent of when Republicans offer their constituents [00:11:56] thoughts and prayers whenever they want to pretend like they're doing their jobs, but they're not actually doing their jobs. They say, you know what? Thoughts and prayers. We are with you. That is so sad. What's happening to you? You're the one in power to actually do something about it. And the same thing on the with the Democrats, it's the same thing. [00:12:13] It just looks a little bit different. It sounds a little bit different. What they give you is, you know, outrage on Twitter, you know, or on X, whatever. And, you know, we work in the media. We're the ones who talk about these things. We're the ones who commentate on these things. They're the ones who actually have the power to do something about the things [00:12:30] that are happening in this country. I don't need them on my level. I need them off of the social media, and I need them in Congress or wherever it is doing the work and actually making something happen. It's like what you were saying, you know, the Democrats, they roll over so often because they're afraid that things are going to look [00:12:47] one way or another politically, right. Like, oh, let's I don't want to like take this stance. We're going to talk about that in our next story a little bit more. But it's like, when is the time when are you finally going to say, oh, you know what? Yeah, we should do something about this. Even something that is so seemingly innocuous, as, you know, Trump plastering [00:13:06] his face all over Washington DC. It's not we know what that is. We have seen it in history, right. Most presidents not they don't do that. You know, like this is all so unprecedented. And just the fact that we know what it is and we're pretending that we don't, [00:13:23] it's like, are there any adults in the room or anybody who's just going to call a thing for what it is, who is actually in government? Right. That is our job to call it out. They need to do something about it. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets its wings. Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.