In this compelling episode of The Kim Monson Show, we explore the political landscape surrounding property rights, freedom of movement, and government policies, from the global agendas impacting local communities to the intricacies of individual freedoms. Featuring discussions on House Bill 241313 and the impact of zoning changes, Kim offers a perspective on why it’s crucial for citizens to stay informed and engaged. Dive into eye-opening commentary on the role of big government, grassroots activism, and the push for more community-focused policies amid today’s pressing political challenges.
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And another great show planned for you. So fasten your seatbelts. The show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And then that’s on all KLZ platforms. KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. And then after that, you can find it at the website, my website, KimMonson.com, or on Spotify and YouTube. and iTunes. The website is Kim Monson, M O N S O N.com. Make sure you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays, highlighting our upcoming guests, as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson.com. And I am a little behind on email. So I do apologize for, Text line is 720-605-0647. I do love to hear from you, and thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. and it’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, childhoods, or lives via force. And force can obviously be a weapon, but it could be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites, That plays out through the United Nations. You see it at this legislature, but you also see it at local government. Jenny had sent me a text the other day that said they think globally and act locally. And we are seeing this big time in many of our municipalities today. In particular, Lakewood, with this rewrite of their zoning regulations. And then, of course, down at the state house, I think it was House Bill 241313, that changes where the state can dictate zoning instead of communities. And so it’s a very interesting web that is being weaved. And ultimately, it is an assault upon property rights. So we continue to unpack and connect all of these things because it is so important. I wanted to say thank you to the Harris family. for their gold sponsorship of the show. Also, Hooters Restaurants has been a sponsor of both the Kim Monson Show and America’s Veterans Stories, which America’s Veterans Stories is on Sunday afternoons on KLZ 560. And I want to say, Hooters Restaurants, how I got to know them, it’s an important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism. and Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Interested Parties, so it’s PBIs, how that matches up. The whole story is at my website. They have three locations, and that is Loveland, Westminster, and the location on Parker Road. And they have great specials for lunch and for happy hour, Monday through Friday. And so be sure and give them some of your business. Their fish and chips is very good, as well as their nachos, which those are two of my fan favorites on that. Our word of the day, thank you to Richard, is immutable, and it is not subject or susceptible to change, not capable or susceptible to change, unchangeable and alterable, and unable to be changed without exception. And I would… I guess Richard has said something that is immutable is our gender, and he’s absolutely right. I cannot believe that we are in a world now where, through public policy and through using tax dollars, that we are actually… mutilating our children, either surgically or pharmaceutically, through all this transgender stuff. And so gender is immutable, boy, girl. And you go back to, I’ve been reading, trying to do more Bible reading and was reading Genesis. My gosh, a lot happens in Genesis in just a few chapters. But God made man, God made woman. And so this whole transgender thing is totally antithetical to foundational principles and nature’s law. So again, the word of the day is immutable. It’s I-M-M-U-T-A-B-L-E. And not subject or susceptible to change. And your challenge is to use that in a sentence today. our quote from calvin coolidge and this is a great one he was born in 19 1872 died in 1933 he was our 30th president he was a republican lawyer from massachusetts and he’s previously served as vice president under president warren g harding and he gained a reputation as a small government conservative with a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor that earned him the name Nickname of silent cow. And he said this little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. And that is why each day when we get up, we have to focus on the excellent focus on being our best to be, to focus on what we’re passing on to the next generation and, And and I just I love that quote. Again, little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. And in a way, that seems like what we’re just trying to do here in Colorado. But there’s a lot of us that are working on good. And then he goes on to say, our great hope lies in developing what is good. Now, there is a lot of headlines out there. The first thing that we’re doing, though, is going through the big, beautiful bill. And on the White House dot gov, they have 50 wins in the big, beautiful bill. Number 31 is it modernizes air traffic control, fulfilling President Trump’s plan to completely overhaul the systems that keep Americans flying safely and efficiently. 32. It strengthens SNAP benefits. The legislation requires states to contribute a greater portion of the cost of administering benefits, thereby controlling costs, and closes the excessively broad loopholes for work requirements. Number 33, it implements critical program integrity and cost containment provisions in Medicaid to strengthen it for future generations. It says this includes removing deceased individuals from the program and limiting retroactive coverage from three months to one month prior to enrollment. Number 34, it safeguards Second Amendment rights by removing tax and registration requirements for firearm silencers and eliminating silencers from the National Firearms Act. And check out Teddy Collins with the Second Syndicate, his most recent essay at my website. He says this was a great step in the right direction, but it did not go quite far enough. But again, I love the fact that we’re moving in the right direction. And then number 35 is it provides critical disaster recovery funding to farmers, producers, and ranchers. So that is from whitehouse.gov, 50 wins in the big, beautiful bill. Our next headline that I wanted to hit is from the Daily Mail. And this is pretty huge. This whole thing that Joe Biden was signing… and all of these different things with an auto pin. Now I think all presidents have used auto pins, for example, when they are responding to, well, Trump has said this, when he is responding to many of the letters that he receives from people, he wants to respond back, clearly he doesn’t have time to sign all of those letters and do all that he’s doing as the president as well. So there is an auto pin that is used for that. However, And apparently Joe Biden was using that auto pin to sign pardons, to sign executive orders, and he very well may not have known what he was signing. So the next question, which is a good one, is does that invalidate it? And so this is from the Daily Mail. It says President Donald Trump slammed Joe Biden’s defense when it comes to using the auto pen, saying the former president, he knew nothing. The auto pen, I think, is maybe one of the biggest scandals that we’ve had in 50 to 100 years. This is a tremendous scandal. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, I can guarantee you he knew nothing about what he was signing. I guarantee it. So Trump was asked about Biden’s interview with the New York Times, where the former president said Trump and other Republicans were liars for claiming his aides had used an auto pin to do so without his authorization. This Daily Mail piece goes on to say, but the president also admitted his own administration also uses the auto pin, although Trump clarified it is not used to sign legislation, but to add his autograph to letters to Americans. And so this is going to be very interesting. I agree with Donald Trump that this is a a it’s not just a scandal. This is a I would say this is a national crisis, because if Joe Biden didn’t know what he was signing, who did know what he was signing, who who was running all of that? Who was running the presidential office at that time? I think we want to know that. Next headline that we wanted to hit is a U.S. This is from USA Today. It says the Supreme Court lets Trump fire hundreds of education department workers and dismantle the agency. And of course, the teachers unions and everyone that supports the Department of Education, or I would say the Department of Uneducation, because so many of our children cannot read and write and do arithmetic at grade level. And so the way I am seeing this is that that all those that are part of the Department of Education are saying, oh, Trump can’t do this because creating the department was an act of Congress. And that that component is probably true, that it was created by Congress and Congress needs to intervene. pass legislation to get rid of it. But as the executive of the executive branch to execute those laws, I think Trump can do that however he wants to. And so this is very interesting. Stay tuned on that. And then lastly, Governor of Colorado Polis was, this is from MSN, he was on MSNBC just recently. And he said that it’s bad news for Americans. Blue state governor on financial fallout from Trump’s tax law. Colorado Governor Jared Polis says he’s trying to fight the staggering toll of Trump’s new tax law. He said his state could lose $500 million in revenue each year and face another $500 million in new costs as Medicaid and food aid take a hit. Bear in mind that each state is not supposed to be living off of the federal government. The federal government, the only way it gets money is either it is taking it from us, we the people, via taxes and fees, or printing money, taking on debt that the next generations will have to pay. They don’t even have a say in that. Both of those are wrong. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter there. And are you ready for financial freedom? Well, call our friends at Mint Financial Strategies. As an independent firm and an accredited investment fiduciary, they always put your interests first. Mint means more than money. It stands for a meaningful relationship. information sharing, a network of smart strategies, and a thoughtful advisor, Jody Henze, who puts you in control. No cookie-cutter plans. Everything is tailored to you. Call Mint Financial Strategies today at 303-285-3080. That’s 303-285-3080. Mike Rolick is on the line. He is a citizen activist who is watching things both at the local and the national level. And first of all, he’s been really watching these different municipalities. And there are several of them that have sued regarding this House Bill 241313, which really has the state coming in and dictating density in communities, which can be a real assault upon property rights. So Mike Rolick, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. How are you?
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Well, I am well. So what is the latest? We have seen and had Karen Gorday and Mary Jansen on talking about Lakewood and this rewrite of their zoning laws. And they may be adjusting that a little bit because now that the citizens are becoming informed, there’s pushback. And so I think they’re delaying some of these decisions. But still, I’ve seen a strategy when I was on city council that what happens many times is staff and councils can kind of kick these issues down the road, wear people out that are trying to watch it, and then quickly go ahead and do what they were trying to do. So what’s your ear to the ground saying about all this?
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Well, I think Arvada is very committed to the legal action along with others. It was Greenwood Village, Aurora, Lafayette, and others. So we’re encouraged. I just was at a meeting about two weeks ago where some of the folks in the local YIMBY movement were presenting a petition to say they wanted the city to withdraw. And then our group had some as well to say we’re still – supportive of the city trying to preserve its home rule. One of the tenets there is if the density is correct, it’s better to be at the local land use level. If the density is not correct, well then, having a top-down management scheme doesn’t really work. It’s a one-size-fits-all. What I did find interesting during this meeting was they were discussing how, unfortunately, 55 folks or 55 households might be losing their HUD money to stay where they were, and they were lamenting the fact that the federal government was changing its rules specifically So I think Arvada is consistent in the fact that they don’t want either the Fed or the state to dictate how they’re doing things. And I think it’s poignant to say, okay, guys, on the YIMBY side, look what happens when you have a top-down management scheme. If something changes at the top, it is very difficult to get your particular concern heard if things are at the local level. It’s a lot easier to call, see if you can get a meeting with the mayor or city council or staff. and try to work through a local issue. So I think it was an interesting situation at that particular meeting where they’re actually listening and hearing about a federal situation. You know, we could discuss the merits of their end. But the idea that, again, if more money stays in the local jurisdiction for the local electeds to do what they and the people see as best, I see that as better, you know. So the YIMBY movement.
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A couple of things, Mike, because I know that you’re totally in this. But if somebody’s just new to hearing the term YIMBY, that’s Y-I-M-B-Y. What does that stand for?
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It stands for yes in my backyard, kind of the answer to the no in my backyard. And our group is now kind of toying with the term compatibility in my backyard, right? We understand growth will happen. How do you do it where the immediate neighbors are in agreement and say, yes, this is in concert with our view? The comprehensive master plan that when we moved there, maybe it was single-family homes or duplexes, and we’re not quite ready for 15 units per acre or 40 units per acre, right? So the compatibility idea is kind of a moving target. You know, we’ve seen compatibility be something as small as, oh, we put a privacy fence up, therefore this huge new development is compatible with single-family homes. I don’t necessarily think that equals compatibility all the time. So you’ve got the YIMBY, you’ve got the NIMBY, and then you’ve got more of a kind of where I would look at it as a rational look and say, okay, we know development’s going to happen. How do we get the best product when it comes to how the neighborhood feels as well? And there are some very responsible – developers out there you know who are actually coming to groups like ours and saying hey we’re thinking about building a certain spot what do you think the neighbors are going to be looking for um and they’re very open and transparent uh so it can work i just don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all different cities and different towns have different cultures and i think the yimby movement um looks at it for for unfortunately again from a top down that’s why there is um such a Such a commonality. When you look at one thing that’s been pushed was the transient-oriented developments, right? And we’re seeing that with HB 1313. We’re also seeing that happening in New York City. We’re seeing it talked about in Melbourne. You know, Yimby Town in Connecticut is having a transit-oriented development talk in September. So it’s interesting when we think about, you know, are there universal principles that work for people or not? And I believe in individualism. There’s a gentleman named Peter Kalthor and just kind of got into his work just as a kind of AD compare. And he is the progenitor of the transit-oriented development, which is a big, big principle for Yimby. And he’s based in California. He’s an architect, and he’s the founder of the Congress to New Urbanism. And back in the 1990s, he developed the concept of that transit-oriented development. We can get into that in a little bit if you want. But I’m seeing transit-oriented development grants even coming down from the federal level. The Federal Transit Administration gave out $10.5 million last year for TODs.
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Well, and that is a real problem because you should not be using federal money or government money to push a certain agenda, which these transit-oriented developments are really focused on taking away people’s freedom of mobility, wanting to put them into rental apartments along transit corridors, and really, I think, controlling their lives. So there is no reason why the federal government should be putting money into that agenda. Because if these things, if that’s what people want and it can stand on its own from an economic standpoint, great. But obviously, if it’s having to have a lot of additional government money, it can’t. And you mentioned something about taking away HUD money. So again, under the Obama and Biden administrations, they used HUD money, again, to try to manipulate housing markets to push people into transit-orientated development. So when you said that the threat of losing HUD money, just clarify that a bit, Mike Rollick.
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At the meeting in Nevada, they were discussing 55 families were at risk of losing whatever subsidy they had to stay in their homes. My basic point there is if a local jurisdiction wants to help out certain local families that are having troubles, which is fine, everyone’s running into economic trouble, it should, again, be done at the local level. I was drawing the parallel from people who are hoping that the state will force a zoning, yet they might lament when another higher government like the Fed start taking money or rules away, right? So it kind of brings that point of isn’t the local governance the best in these situations? And I don’t know if that irony was – really captured by certain people there. They’re literally saying, we need the state to control us. But when the feds control that purse string and take the purse string away, they’re very upset. Anytime a higher government can create rules, they can also take them away. And that was my main point there.
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Okay. Excellent point. And we’re getting limited on time. However, we’ve got to talk about this other issue as well. And this is Fix Our Forest Act. And you texted this over to me. And this is law now, correct?
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I think it’s still waiting to be voted on by the Senate. But two things on the forest really quick. I want to touch on what Jeffco is doing locally, and I want to talk about Fix Our Forest Act as well. So SB21258 created Coastal Operative, Colorado Strategic Wildfire Action Program. And right now they’re working with Jeffco to, quote, unquote, treat forests, but we’re seeing it as a clear cut. one of the major issues here is they’re taking Jeffco tax money, they’re taking state tax money, and then they’re subsidizing private contractors who can then use the logs to sell on the open market on their own. So just for example, Beaver Ranch in Elk Meadows is $800,000 of taxpayer money, or $3,319 per acre. However, the contractors are allowed to sell logs, and I would quote the Alderford Three Sisters saying, Forest products will be removed from site to be utilized by the contractor in a manner of their own choosing. I look at that as very interesting because you’re taking tax money, you’re paying a private contractor to show up and then use the logs on the open market free and clear. That’s a huge issue tax-wise. And second, they’re not looking at how the wind patterns change when you do clear cuts You can have adiabatic compressible flow of katabatic winds. And I’m concerned with what happens when you take a forest, turn it into a meadow, and then you accelerate the winds, which we’ve heard from folks out there, and we actually have research on that as well. You accelerate the winds towards possibly a population center, towards possibly an evacuation route. So that creates a human hazard. So that’s something on the Jeffco side I’d like to get a little bit more into with you. And as far as the Fix Our Forest Act, Section 303 goes into the tech private and public partnership. Now, this is an interesting situation because this is going to command the various secretaries to look at promulgating testing on certain technologies. And this will say specific priorities include technologies of advanced hazardous fuels reduction treatments, dispatch communications, here’s the big one, remote sensing, detection, tracking, which would be a Pano AI style. Safety equipment, thermal, mid-wave, infrared, equipped low-Earth orbit satellites and common operating fixtures, operational dashboards, which is interesting because you talk about common operational dashboards. That means many different agencies will be using the same dashboard, the same backend, right? So what we can see when we talk about this kind of thing is think about the Department of Justice situation where they just had the audit of the FBI’s protection on ubiquitous technical surveillance, and they found out that the cartels had had a hacker back in 2018 hacked into Mexico City’s camera system and actually were using it to harass and even, in certain cases, kill witnesses. So you look at Pano AI, and you could look at common dashboards, or is that common dashboard going to be hacked? Is it going to be actually used? in an abusive way as well. So it is kind of an interesting situation that 303 is getting pushed in there. Megafire Lobby is pushing this tech, and Pano AI just happens to be a member of Megafire. And I actually have the testimony that they gave to the Senate Committee for Agriculture. It’s kind of a long-winded word. I know we don’t have a whole lot of time here, but it was Hold on a second. It was the Senate Committee on Agriculture. I know Senate Bennett was on there, I think, as well. So it is an interesting situation when you look at how tech is becoming really kind of infused into this kind of forest management.
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Okay, Mike Rolick, we are going to need to take some more time to unpack this because this is very, very important, and so we will get you scheduled again here. I’ll reach out to you after the show because this whole data collection thing is getting way out of control, and we’ve got to keep our eyes on that. So Mike Rolick, thank you for the great work that you’re doing on this as a citizen activist. This is the way it’s supposed to happen, and we will talk with you again very soon. Thank you so much.
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Thank you. Have a great day.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And on the line with me is Greg Lopez. And he is former congressman. He is running for governor here in Colorado. Greg Lopez, welcome to the show.
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Hey, good morning, Kim. How are you doing today?
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Doing well. And we’ve got a lot to talk about. You’ve been traveling the state and want to talk about this whole wolves issue. But before we do that, you ended up completing Ken Buck’s term in Congress when Ken Buck stepped down. And so what were some of your takeaways as you were in Washington today? uh, as, uh, you know, during the election of 2024, um, what, what would you say is your big takeaway as Congressman?
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You know, Kim, uh, pleasure to be elected, uh, by the people of the fourth congressional district, which is really all the Eastern Plains, um, you know, and the rep in Congress on our behalf, you know, it really, um, I guess the biggest takeaway for me was that Congress is sometimes gridlocked and sometimes things done about one side, you know, kind of party. But it’s the best this thing can have. But you know what? It will. When we come and look. Of every individual. I think it shows that we can move the needle. Unify. We have to focus on the American people. And so the biggest takeaway I took was that, you know what, there is room for agreement. Sometimes it’s difficult because of the political winds or leadership trying to, on both sides, trying to achieve what they want. All in all, you know, it was a great experience. I’ve never thought I would check off.
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Well, Greg, that is so interesting. We’ve got a little bit of a connection challenge, so I’m going to go to break early and see if you and Producer Joe can get that remedied, because I really want to hear every word that you have to say. And these are important discussions that we have. A couple of things that I wanted to mention is the two nonprofits that I feature on a regular basis on the show is the USMC Memorial Foundation which the memorial was dedicated in 1977 and is located at Colfax and 6th Avenue in Golden. It is the official Marine Memorial. And Paula Sarles, who is the president of the foundation and her team, are working diligently to raise the money for the remodel. And so a great thing to do would be to support them. It’s a way of saying thank you to those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our liberty. And so highly recommend that. And then another organization to totally support and visit is the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. And one of the things that they do is they have the Portraits of Valor, which is portraits of over 160 of our Medal of Honor recipients with quotes by each of them. And I would encourage you to learn about each of these men. And it gives us inspiration. These are men that took action when a difficult situation presented itself. And we can take such great heart from their stories. And I’d highly recommend that you have the Center for American Values quote book on your shelf at home in your Freedom Library. And so the website for USMC Memorial Foundation is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And the website for the Center for American Values is americanvaluescenter.org. And we are blessed to have amazing sponsors. One of those sponsors is John Bozen and Bozen Law. And if you’ve been injured, you’ll want to reach out to them.
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and welcome back to the kim monson show check out our website that’s kim monson monson.com on the line with me is greg lopez former congressman from colorado as well as he is a candidate for governor greg lopez wanted to get a little bit better connection because i know everybody wants to hear what you have to say before we get over to what you’ve been learning about our farmers and ranchers and this whole wolf reintroduction On the Western Slope. Tell us a little bit about why you’re running for governor and what you hope to accomplish.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you know, Kim, as we all know, Colorado is in a crisis. And this is what happens when after seven years of a single party rule, our quality of life, you know, everything that makes Colorado Colorado has been erased. And as I travel the state, I hear a lot of frustration. I hear a lot of despair from people as to, you know, what’s going on with our state. Why are we not able to live that American dream? And why are we struggling so much? And so I’m running because I really think it’s time to put people over politics. We need to focus on fighting for people, fighting for the poor, fighting for those young couples that are just trying to make a living and start a family. And I think that, you know, the state level, specifically the governor’s office, is not paying attention to what’s needed here in Colorado. And we’ve basically turned into California, which is not what Colorado is all about. And so I’m looking to be that voice of the people, and it’s time for a Colorado comeback. I think it’s time for Colorado to make a huge comeback and not be that state that is, you know, seconding crime or, you know, all those things that make Colorado a negative state as it pertains to the rest of the nation. So I’m hoping to be successful in that.
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Well, and Colorado has really lost its vibe, if you will. I was talking with a millennial recently. He said the Denver vibe is gone, and it’s because of the policies of these radical activists that have taken over the Democrat Party. both at the local level as well as at the state level as well. And so we’ve got a lot of work to do to get Colorado turned back around. And so thank you for stepping forward, to you and your family for stepping forward, because campaigning is a real commitment. But while you’re out there on the campaign trail, You and I were chatting just recently, and you’ve learned something regarding this whole wolf reintroduction program, if you will, that has really been, I think, a pet project, no pun intended, of Jared Polis and his partner. So tell us a little bit about what you’ve learned regarding our farmers and ranchers.
SPEAKER 09 :
Look, uh, you know, Kim, a lot of people may not remember, but in 2020, there was a ballot issue, uh, asking people if they thought it was a good idea to reintroduce the wall back in the Colorado. And, you know, it passed by 58,000 votes. It was less than a half a percent. And predominantly the people that voted for it was the urban corridor. And it was an emotional vote. It wasn’t anything based on science. It wasn’t anything based on the habitat or the environment. Colorado is the first state to ever reintroduce a wolf, not on scientific evidence, but on the emotional appeal of the voter. And what’s happening now is that the families, the families of rural Colorado, specifically up in the Western Slope, are being negatively impacted. The mental health, of the farmers and ranchers is through the ceiling with anxiety. I mean, imagine for a minute if Colorado voted to introduce back into the urban corridor the snake, the rattlesnake, or mountain lions. Just think of the anxiety that people would have every single day not knowing whether any of their property was going to be destroyed and so forth. And that’s the anxiety that people are suffering up in the urban corridor. And you have these wolves. There’s a management plan that got put together because of the selection of the introduction of the wolf. But the wolves are now eating cattle more than what they should. There’s a pack called the Copper Creek Pack that is depredation is when they are actually killing. And the depredation that they’re having is they’re killing livestock, which is cattle. They’re not hunting elk. They’re not hunting deer either. like all of the environmentalists and naturalists thought that they were going to do. And they’re growing in numbers. And so we’re seeing a huge negative impact, not only on families up in the Western Slope, but also the economy. There’s distrust in government because they’re not following the plan the way they should. It’s just chaos. It’s one of those experiments that has gone awry. And I think that the best thing for Colorado Parks and Wildlife to do is to take a pause on bringing in more wolves into the state of Colorado until they deal with this one pack that is chronic depredation that the leadership of Colorado Parks and Wildlife have already classified.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and unfortunately, these wolves don’t know their boundaries. Now, that ballot question, which I thought was crazy, was should wolves be reintroduced west of the continental divide? So apparently these wolves can’t read a map. Is that correct?
SPEAKER 09 :
That’s right. You know what? And the interesting thing, you know, again, people are not very informed when they vote on these things because they’re emotional. You know, we already had wolves. You know, Wyoming has wolves. New Mexico has wolves. And so they were crossing. Like you said, they don’t understand state lines. They don’t understand county lines. You know, these are wild animals that roam. And the wolf, the territory of a wolf can be anywhere from 20 square miles to 120 square miles. And they walk and they just go through whatever they need to do to get basically explore. And you will see on the wolf tracking map that you can find, because they do put collars on these wolves, some of them have already made it into the urban corridor. That doesn’t mean that they are living in the urban corridor, but they have stepped into the urban corridor, and they’ve been able to be tracked because of those collars. So they’re hoping to have, listen to this, they’re hoping to have over 200 Wolves in the state of Colorado in the next three years.
SPEAKER 15 :
The question is why? Now, I am looking at the Colorado Parks and Wildlife June gray wolf activity map. This is from May 27th, 2025 to June 24th of 2025. And interestingly, I find this interesting. maybe this is justice, is there is a tremendous amount of activity of these wolves in Boulder County now. A bunch of Boulder County is covered by activity from these wolves. And again, it was Boulder County and Denver that probably were the ones that put this ballot question over the top to reintroduce these wolves. And so now that it’s going to be in their backyard, it’s going to be very interesting to see people’s reaction to that.
SPEAKER 09 :
I totally agree with you. And look, I mean, it’s one of those that, you know, some people believe it’s kind of cool to hear a wolf howl at night. what they forget is that these are pack animals. They’re never alone. They’re always six to eight to even it’s 12 can be the pack. And so when you hear one, you know that there’s at least another number of wolves in the general area because they’re packed animals. And so you’re right. I think people are going to realize that we were not aware. And to your point, Denver and Boulder are, were not aware at how much the wolf would basically impact their lives and create anxiety. I mean, wolves will eat dogs. They’ll eat cats. They’ll eat whatever they want to eat. But they also train their pups on how to kill. So they don’t necessarily kill to eat. Sometimes they kill just to train their pups how to survive. And so that’s why I’m saying it’s a very – unfortunate experiment that’s gone astray. And again, the science said we should never introduce a wolf to Colorado, but because it was a vote of the people that didn’t fully understand the impact of it. Now we’re having to deal with it. And my hope is that, you know, parks and wildlife does the right thing by managing them. And it’s going to be a very difficult thing to manage a wild animal because That’s just roaming across the state of Colorado.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. And then there was also legislation to try to constrict reaction to a wolf that might be killing livestock and to restrict our farmers and ranchers regarding that. So a couple of things. This was coming in from this is from Jenny. She said that they passed the wolves with money from the Tides Foundation. And so there was outside money that was coming in on this. And then Mary suggested, let’s see here, would you camp out knowing that there are wolves out there? And then this is a good question. Are we not allowed to carry guns in parks? So we’ve seen different pieces of legislation to try to limit people being able to carry firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors. But yet then we’re introducing these wolves. And so what’s happening is they’re trying to prevent people from going into… our public lands and enjoying them. I think that that’s a big connection because why would you go out camping if you’ve got a pack of wolves out there? And also, Pitkin County, Aspen can be an area that may vote very blue as well. And there was something kind of crazy that happened regarding relocations of some wolves to Pitkin County. It was done under the radar. We’ve got about three minutes on that. So explain that, Greg Lopez.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. So, Kim, the management plan that, you know, stakeholders were brought in and they worked on this for three years. They had a technical group that was made of experts from all different states that have the wolves already in it. And they brought in people. Then they had a group of stakeholders. These are hunters. These are outfitters. These are wranglers that are out there in the woods all the time. They spent three years putting together a management plan, and the plan that everybody voted on and everybody agreed is that Colorado would not introduce a wolf to the state that has already been known to eat cattle, depredation of ranchers and farmers. And what did we do? We brought in a pack into Colorado that was known to do that. And so they violated the management plan in that manner. When they realized that they were actually causing a lot of damage to property, they recaptured them and they put them in a sanctuary here in Colorado. Colorado has wolf sanctuaries. I believe we have two.
SPEAKER 15 :
How do you keep a wolf in a wolf sanctuary?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you know, I mean, it’s kind of like those open, you know, ranches that have high fences. They’re 10 feet long or tall. There’s dual fences, so if they get over one, they can’t get over the other one. But it’s basically a bigger museum of hundreds of acres or 50 acres or whatever of sanctuary for a wolf. And they exist here in Colorado. And so they put them in a sanctuary and the male alpha died. They claim that it died due to a gunshot wound. But here’s what’s very interesting. The management plan says you are not to move a problem from one part of the state to another part of the state. And then they chose to, after the pups reached a certain level of maturity, they let them go. And they put them back. They didn’t put them where they found them. They put them in Pitkin County. And now Pitkin County is dealing with the same thing that Kremlin was doing with in Grand County about the depredation of this wolf. So they’re violating their own management plan. And this is really what’s got people upset is that we spent years on this and we all agreed on it. And now you’re not following it. And the Parks Commission, the Parks and Wildlife Commission, is taking a very safe approach on this. And they’re saying, well, we as a commission, we can’t tell management and leadership how to implement the plan. That’s their responsibility. And I totally disagree with that. I totally disagree with that. that you can’t have a commission that will dictate or direct leadership on how to handle a situation specifically when a plan has been adopted.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, it’s really crazy, but I think they know exactly what they’re doing. Greg Lopez, we’re just about out of time. You’re running for governor. How can people get more information about you?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, you know what? Go to my website, greglopez.co. Again, that’s greglopez. You know, I’m going to fight for people. I’m going to put people over politics. I think it’s time for Colorado to make a comeback. Bring Colorado back to the state it was eight years ago and make a state that we can all be proud of. So, yes, greglopez.co. Go to my website. Make a contribution. Doesn’t matter what size. It’s important that we get a different voice and a different approach to when it comes to the future of this state.
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Okay, Greg Lopez, thank you so much. And our quote for the end of the show is Calvin Coolidge. He said, unless the people through unified action arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude. to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest. My friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for our number two.
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And wow, I’m trying to do some research here in between the hours on this whole wolf thing. And so we’re going to talk a little bit more about that. We had Greg Lopez on in the hour number one that we’ll rebroadcast today in the one to two hour. And he is a candidate for governor here for Colorado and has been out talking with people, particularly our farmers and ranchers on the Western Slope and how they have been affected by these this wolf reintroduction. And it’s crazy. As I’ve watched this, you have this wolf reintroduction, and then we’ve seen legislation that tries to tie people’s hands on how they respond to wolves that are attacking their private property, their livestock, which connect the dot. That affects us because that starts to affect our food source. It is all in such a diabolical way. It’s all connected. And so we’ve got to continue to shed light on this. We’ve got to reclaim this great state of ours. It is really in, it’s in the dumpster right now. That’s what’s going on. And so many people, but do not lose hope. So many people are working and doing great stuff on that. And one of the things that is so important is that we have elections that are free, fair, honest, and transparent. And I know many of us are concerned about that. And instead of people saying nothing to see here, move along, and we’ve seen that on both sides of the aisle, we actually need to come together. And I think the big, broad middle of Coloradans, the moderate Democrats and libertarians and conservatives and unaffiliateds and conservatives, Republicans all want to make sure that we have free, fair, honest, and transparent elections. So there’s a summit tonight. It’s the Colorado Election Summit. It is at 630. And to get the location, you need to sign up. It’s crazy that there would be those that would try to shut down voices on this. And again, one has to ask why. 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He had a taciturn personality and a very dry sense of humor that earned him the nickname of Silent Cal. But he said this little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. And I do think this is important. Many of you came in on the text line regarding this wolf issue. And this was something that I was not aware of. But apparently a woman was killed in Castilla County. This was earlier this year. And thank you, Mary, for sending this over. It says autopsy results show death of Castilla County woman was caused by domestic dogs. It says Sangre de Cristo Ranches, where the body was found in January, has a history of domestic dogs running loose. And I find that curious that they were able to determine that. I also find it curious that there was not a big media push on this as well. And I did not know that there were domestic dogs. 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Welcome back. Be sure and check out my website. That’s KimMuntz.com. Let’s get right to it. Pleased to have on the line with me Sam Dorman. Sam is the Washington correspondent with the Epoch Times. He watches the courts and what’s happening in Washington. Welcome, Sam Dorman.
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Hi, Kim. Good to be with you.
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A lot has been happening in your world. You’ve been very busy, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, the Supreme Court just released their final decisions, and then you’ve had all this fallout in the lower courts with Trump. So, yeah, I’ve definitely been busy.
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So let’s talk, first of all, you recently had published a piece at the Epoch Times, nine key Supreme Court decisions from this term. And, of course, number one, these nationwide injunctions by these lower court federal judges. What’s your read on that, Sam Dorman?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that was a pretty big one. The Supreme Court basically said that Congress hadn’t given courts the authority to issue these sweeping injunctions that we’ve seen over the past, you know, I think it’s like 10 years now since Trump’s first term, they’ve been exploding. So Supreme Court basically said that in general, that that’s not allowed. But there are certain caveats that courts can take to sort of affect sweeping injunctions across the country. So it’s kind of a more limited decision, I think, than it might seem from the headlines. But overall, it’s still a pretty big case because it does limit judges’ authority. And this has been an issue over, like I said, over a decade with these injunctions growing. And both sides have really been calling out this issue.
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Okay, so that was number one. But we continue to see, and I think that these injunctions by these lower court federal judges, they’re trying to put sand in the gear to try to stop the Trump agenda to try to get to the 2026 election if In fact, the Democrats can take either the House or the Senate. Then those that want to really stop what Trump is doing, they basically, in effect, could do that. So it seems like these injunctions are just trying to put sand in the gears. What do you think about that?
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Yeah, it’s hard to say. I mean, so one of the big issues with this topic is this thing called judge shopping, which is basically where law firms will seek out particular districts that they think are favorable to their interests. And so there’s actually a Harvard Law Review study that talked about how a lot of these nationwide injunctions are mostly issued by judges that were appointed by a president of the opposing party for the policy that’s being challenged. So you get a lot of liberal judges or judges appointed by Democratic presidents who are blocking Trump’s policies and then vice versa under Biden. Yeah, it’s hard to say. I mean, you know, these judges are obviously not going to say that they’re doing this for partisan purposes. And they’re they’re sort of laying out their their decisions and their arguments in their in their cases. But it is raising questions about that. And that’s something Republicans have been trying to talk about. Like they’ve held hearings on this. And just generally, I think. there’s this question of whether or not courts can actually, courts should have this much power, right? Like besides whether or not they’re acting out of partisan or ideological purposes, there’s a question of whether or not we should even be asking that. I think it’s kind of like, should this even be coming up for judges, right? Because if they don’t have this much power, then you wouldn’t see these types of questions arise.
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Well, and really, I really would like to have judges, wherever they are, whether or not it’s state court or federal court, be looking at these things through the lens of the original Constitution, but that it has become very political. But let’s go ahead and go through the next one. You said the next big decision was gender procedures for minors.
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Right. Yeah, so that was about Tennessee’s law, which attempted to ban minors Well, it initially banned surgical procedures, and they had things like cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for children. And at the lower court level, they sort of narrowed the case down to just being about puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. And so by the time it reached the Supreme Court, the Biden administration had asked the Supreme Court to basically say that the law was subject to this thing called heightened scrutiny, which is basically just saying that whenever appeals courts review these laws, they have to sort of apply certain standards to them. And the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is sort of like an intermediate level of appeals, they basically said that Tennessee’s law only had to pass this very low standard called rational basis review, which is just basically saying that states have to demonstrate that they have some kind of rational basis for the law that they’re implementing. And that’s kind of like the lowest standard of review. And so the Biden administration was attempting to say, actually, this is a form of sex discrimination that potentially violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. And because of that, it needs to undergo a higher form of review. So it’s kind of a long, drawn-out saga. But the Supreme Court eventually ruled in June that that the Tennessee was, or that the Sixth Circuit was actually right to say that Tennessee only had to undergo rational basis review and that the case, that its law actually, Tennessee’s law actually did pass that standard. And its reasoning was based on the idea that basically what Tennessee was doing was they weren’t classifying people based on sex. They weren’t engaging in some kind of sex-based discrimination. Instead, what they were doing was saying there are particular medical procedures that we don’t want minors to undergo. And because of that, it’s not sort of subject to the same type of scrutiny under the 14th Amendment.
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Okay. What would you say the ramifications are? For example, where I am in Colorado, it’s become a, I have this in air quotes, sanctuary state for transgender operations or pharmaceuticals on minors. So what’s your read on how this is going to play out across the country?
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Yeah, so it didn’t set up an across-the-board rule, and basically it just allows states to states like Tennessee to continue passing these types of laws. So you could still see in certain purple or blue states, they won’t pass these types of laws. And so then there’ll be more leeway for parents to do these types of things for their kids. An interesting argument that could come up and something that the Supreme Court didn’t consider was whether or not parents have a certain type of right or they have parents’ rights includes the ability to provide these types of procedures for their children. And so that could come up again. It’s kind of an interesting question of whether or not the 14th Amendment actually allows parents to do that or whether or not states can interfere with that. So that could still come up and that could still be a legal issue. But generally right now, the Supreme Court has basically given states more leeway to ban these types of procedures.
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Okay. I think that’s good news, in my opinion. Okay, next, number three, deportations. What about this?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, so I think there was a lot of cases, and that was kind of like a catch-all that I included because there was – I don’t know if you remember, Trump did the… He implemented a proclamation about the Alien Enemies Act, which is basically this law that allows for expedited removal of the people if there’s some kind of foreign invasion or incursion against the country. And so he basically used this to apply to members of Trende Arago, which is the Venezuelan gang that’s been committing acts of violence in the United States. And the… The Supreme Court basically, they intervened a couple of times. The first time was when this district judge, James Boasberg, had blocked Trump’s deportations at a national level. And the Supreme Court intervened and basically vacated those orders from Boasberg, blocking Trump’s deportations. But they also kind of limited what Trump could do, because they said that he had to provide some kind of due process for these potential deportees through something called habeas, you know, habeas petitions, which is, it’s like a legal mechanism, basically, for allowing people to challenge their detention. And so that ended up, that was kind of the first ruling. And then after that, you had, I don’t know if people probably remember Kilmar Abrego Garcia, which is the quote-unquote Maryland man who is alleged member of MS-13. He was deported as part of this round of deportations that occurred in March after Trump signed his proclamation. And basically, the judge in that case had ordered that the United States had to effectuate or facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return from El Salvador, which is where he was deported to. And The administration in all these cases, they’re saying, you know, these judges are intruding on executive authority. They’re interfering with our ability to conduct foreign affairs. And this is just like way, way too much happening from the third branch of government. But the Supreme Court agreed with the lower court judge in a sense. They said that, you know, she said that this judge in Maryland could allow or could require the administration to effectuate or facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. But they said that, you know, they provided kind of a caveat saying that she had to clarify her order to sort of, to make it clear how she’s not encroaching on executive authority or giving enough deference to the executive branch. So that was the second one. And then after that, so after the initial decision that I talked about with Boesberg’s court and this idea that the proper way to challenge Trump’s order was through habeas proceedings. What you saw was a bunch of different lawsuits emerging across the country where there was a bunch of people in different states basically trying to file these habeas petitions and trying to get relief that way. And so one of those came from the Northern District of Texas. And that case ended up reaching the Supreme Court. And at that point, the Supreme Court did something that was kind of unusual in that they granted relief or they blocked the deportations for a putative class. So I think everyone knows what class actions are and class certification where you sort of like, yeah, you say, yeah, that plaintiffs can sort of represent a broader group of people in the country. So the Supreme Court in this case, the class hadn’t even been certified yet, but the Supreme Court said that we’re going to grant relief for this putative class anyways. So those were kind of the three ones. I don’t want to go on too much longer, but if you want me to expand on that, I can.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, no, it really is fascinating. From a common sense standpoint, Sam Dorman, it seems crazy to me that somebody that has come here illegally and allegedly is part of a gang that’s committing a bunch of crimes, that we can’t just deport them. And I understand habeas corpus. I understand how important that is. However, they came here illegally. It seems like they shouldn’t have that habeas right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, well, it’s an interesting question because I think what’s happening is that there’s questions about whether or not these people actually belong to these gangs. And so the people that are detained are denying that. And then there’s sort of a regular immigration process that usually occurs for people that are subject to removal. And so what they’re saying is that this is basically trying to leapfrog over that normal process, and it’s doing so… in a way that’s denying these people their due process rights. And so I think what the Supreme Court is trying to do is they’re saying, we sort of just want this to be more protracted, and we want to give these, you know, we want to have a more thorough process to make sure that we’re deporting these people on the right bases, because they’re going to this, in many cases, they’re going to this, you know, infamous prison in El Salvador, where there’s alleged human rights abuses and things like that. So Another question that’s really interesting in this is whether or not Trump actually validly invoked the Alien Enemies Act. And there’s been multiple judges who say that because there’s no actual foreign invasion or incursion by Trende Aragua, then Trump’s invocation of that law is basically null and void or it’s not legitimate. There has been a judge that’s agreed with the Trump administration, but there’s been a lot of others that have said that he was wrong to do that. The Supreme Court hasn’t actually weighed in on that question yet, so I think that’s going to go back to the Supreme Court. They’re going to have to look at that again. But, yeah, it’s kind of complicated when you start talking about the DuPonts, right?
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. But you can ask the people that were in the apartment buildings out here in Aurora that Trin and DeRosa, however you say it, had taken over. And I would say that, yes, that is a foreign invasion. And so this is maybe a different kind of foreign invasion situation. But it is. It has been a foreign invasion. We’re going to continue this discussion with Sam Dorman. He is the Washington correspondent covering courts and politics for the Epoch Times. You can follow him on X at Epoch of Dorman. That’s D-O-R-M-A-N. These discussions are we need to have them and we get to have them because of our sponsors. I’m very pleased that the Second Amendment or excuse me, the Second Syndicate is bringing groups together here to protect our Second Amendment.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Sure. Yeah, that was an interesting case. That was kind of done on an expedited basis. People might remember it around the time that Trump was about to be inaugurated. TikTok had shut down because of this law known as the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. This was actually a bipartisan law from Congress, and Biden signed it into law. And it set up a deadline for January 19th, so a day before Trump was to take office, basically saying that ByteDance, which is TikTok’s parent company, had to either divest from its U.S. business or shut down the U.S. business of TikTok. because they were worried about things like data sharing between ByteDance and the Chinese government. And the Chinese government has this requirement that basically private entities have to cooperate with national security and intelligence gathering. So what happened was TikTok sued, and it went to the D.C. Court of Appeals, and the D.C. Circuit upheld Congress’s law, basically saying that the – the law passed something. Again, we were talking before about sort of these standards of review within the courts about like how much scrutiny they apply to particular laws. And in this case, the D.C. Circuit said that, you know, the highest level of review applied to this under the First Amendment. So the government had to do a lot of different things to prove that its law was valid under the First Amendment. And so that even with that higher standard, the government was able to pass the And so that law was valid. When it reached the Supreme Court, it similarly got a lot of approval. It was a unanimous decision, basically upholding Congress’s law and saying that it had to pass a lower standard known as intermediate scrutiny. But regardless, it did pass that as well.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Let’s go to number five, the Mexico gun lawsuit. I find this a little crazy that another country could sue us or sue gun manufacturers. So unpack this for us.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, this is really interesting. And there are a couple of different international lawsuits that are pretty interesting in this term. But this one in particular, you know, basically Mexico was trying to sue, alleging that gun companies were liable for violence committed by cartels because cartels were using guns trafficked from these manufacturers within the United States. And so there’s a particular law that sort of exempts or gives immunity to gun companies. And Congress passed this because, you know, for obvious reasons, people could use these weapons for purposes outside of what the manufacturers intend. But there is sort of a caveat that allows gun companies be sued if they don’t sort of do enough to, or if they’re being negligent and they don’t really do enough to, you know, prevent knowing transmission or flow of guns to criminals or for adverse purposes. And so that was basically what Mexico was alleging in this case. And the First Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Mexico. It allowed the case to go forward rather than being outright dismissed. And the Supreme Court unanimously rejected that decision and said that basically Mexico hadn’t done enough to prove the sort of liability that was or to sort of allege the necessary type of liability under this law that would allow them to be sued in court. So, yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
So let’s just let’s just I want to connect this dot. So you have Mexican cartels that are committing crimes and they’re the ones that are having to pull the trigger on whatever firearm they have. So you have Mexican cartels that they’re pulling the trigger, but they wanted to sue American gun companies for the actions of their cartels. Would you say that’s accurate?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I think it’s more just like that they’re saying that the gun companies are liable, you know, because they’re not doing enough to control the flow of guns.
SPEAKER 15 :
Goodness gracious. Okay. For just a regular person, I find that curious. I’ll just say that. Okay, let’s go to number six. Straight woman wins discrimination case. This is super interesting. Sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah. This was another one that was a unanimous decision. It’s kind of interesting. It kind of plays on identity politics. But I think Justice Jackson was the one who wrote the majority opinion in this case. So she’s considered to be a pretty liberal justice. And basically, it was just that a heterosexual woman had claimed that she was being discriminated against and that someone who didn’t identify as heterosexual was basically being that they had gotten a job they were unqualified for. And so she sued. And this was, again, kind of one of those questions about the standard of review that appeals courts apply. And so an appeals court had said that she had to do sort of like go above and beyond and showing that there were background circumstances supporting her claim that she was facing reverse discrimination. And the Supreme Court said that’s not the case, that she could basically bring the suit without having to do that extra work.
SPEAKER 15 :
And again, we really need to get to a point where we’re looking for jobs promotions on meritocracy. It doesn’t matter what the descriptor is. It’s who’s working hard, trying to improve, being the very best that they can be. This next one, number seven, opting out of LGBT storybooks. This also is crazy to me that we have, and I don’t believe in banning books. I think it’s so important to have freedom. However, there is a responsibility, and that is we don’t put pornographic material in school libraries, which seems like common sense to me. So this is a big case. Talk to us about this, Sam Dorman.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, this one was pretty interesting. I think it was one of the more anticipated cases of the term, and It really touches on the sort of the cultural wars that have been going on in the past few years of how education and how teachers are actually influencing students with some of these new ideas surrounding sexuality and race. And basically what happened was that there was a bunch of parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, who sued because there were these controversial books, things like promoting quote-unquote gender transitions and homosexuality. And so there were parents from different religions basically saying that this was violating their First Amendment rights because they have a right to direct the religious upbringing of their children under the First Amendment, and that basically the school district was infringing on that. And the school district, they initially had an opt-out policy, but they changed this, I think, because of administrative burdens. And Justice Alito, who wrote the majority opinion in this, said basically that because of these parents’ rights to direct the upbringing of their children, they are entitled to some kind of relief from court. So, like, you know, blocking these actions from the school district. And so, yeah, I think this was – it’s kind of in a more preliminary posture. This was about a preliminary injunction. And so Justice Alito was basically saying at this point they deserve this preliminary relief. But his reasoning was basically indicating, you know, that they – I think parents across the country are going to have a pretty substantial basis for fighting back against these decisions at the school districts.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and there are people here in Colorado that have really been shedding light on this issue. In fact, Cain, who’s the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado, has been going in his organization, been going to school boards. And so I’ve seen some of the images and these books that are in these school libraries, and they truly are pornographic. And… There’s only a certain amount of hours in the day and certainly in a school day. And I really think that we should be teaching kids how to read and write and do arithmetic and think about big ideas versus carnal desires. And so I really think that there is no place for these books in school libraries. However, I think one of the remedies that people recommend is that these books would be put on a shelf that parents would have to give permission for their kids to check out those books. Liberty can be so messy sometimes. And I do feel that those with this agenda on these books are using our liberty against us. So we have to protect liberty, but we also have to be responsible adults regarding what our children are viewing. Sam Dorman.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it’s kind of complicated because, you know, when you deal with public schools, you’re talking about this sort of an area that’s supposed to be a neutral zone, but everyone is involved with it and they come to it with different backgrounds and One of the things the Senate said when they were trying to say that the majority was basically trying to deny that these types of people exist and that we need to have more awareness about this population of people. And the – I mean, it’s kind of – it is kind of a – an issue of what exactly those books are saying. And I think Justice Alito was saying, they’re not just sort of like neutral content. It’s clearly designed to indoctrinate or teach kids certain values. And because of that, parents have to have a right to step in.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. That’s a very important decision. Let’s quickly do the next one, number eight, before we go to break, and that’s the porn age verification laws.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Sure, yeah. There’s a lot of laws like this across the United States, and I think you’ve seen Pornhub and other companies complaining about this. But basically, the Free Speech Coalition, which is an industry group for pornography, brought a lawsuit saying that Texas had violated the First Amendment by imposing age verification requirements on porn sites. And so when they reached the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, that Court of Appeals said that basically that, again, like the lower standard should apply to rational basis. Texas just had to prove that they had some kind of rational basis for their for their decision. They ended up appealing that, that the Free Speech Coalition did, and they said at the Supreme Court that a higher standard known as strict scrutiny should apply. And then the Supreme Court eventually, they ruled on this and said that Texas had to pass something known as intermediate scrutiny. So they kind of gave Texas more They said Texas had a higher bar to pass, but Texas passed it anyway. So I think that this is going to have a big impact on this idea that there’s a public health crisis with pornography addiction, especially among younger kids and how it impacts their brains in developing. So I think this will give states a lot more power to sort of prevent what they see as harms from that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, very, very interesting. And again, I’m talking with Sam Dorman. He’s the Washington correspondent covering courts and politics for the Epoch Times, and you can follow him on X at Epoch of Dorman. And then this next one that we want to talk about is regarding Planned Parenthood, so you’ll want to stay tuned for that. These discussions happen because of our sponsors. For everything mortgages, Lauren Levy can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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and welcome back to the kim monson show check out the two non-profits that i highlight on a regular basis on the show the first is the usmc memorial foundation uh the official marine memorial is here in golden at sixth and colfax dedicated in 1977 Time for a Remodel, and a great way to support them and honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom is to support them. That website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then in Pueblo, the Center for American Values honors our Medal of Honor recipients with their beautiful portraits of valor. It was founded, co-founder is Drew Dix, who is a Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War. And they focus on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And they’re another very worthwhile organization to support. And that website is AmericanValueCenter.org. Talking with Sam Dorman, he is the Washington correspondent covering the courts and politics for the Epoch Times. You can follow him on X at Epoch of Dorman. And we’re going to this very important piece that he has published at the Epoch Times regarding nine of the key Supreme Court decisions from this term. Let’s talk about this last one, number nine, South Carolina defends Planned Parenthood. I do not think tax dollars should be used for abortion. I think most people can agree on that when we get to that. Sam and Dorman, your thoughts?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, so this case was kind of interesting because there’s already a federal law that prevents federal funds from flowing to abortions. This one was more about South Carolina with certain – With certain providers, if they provide abortions, then they’re not technically qualified to provide health care services in other ways. And so South Carolina was trying to exclude Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid plan on that basis. And Planned Parenthood sued in a response saying that there’s a provision of the law that sets up Medicaid basically saying that recipients can choose who they want their providers to be. so they can choose qualified providers, basically. And one of their patients also joined the lawsuit. And so the claim was that by denying the payments for this particular person’s chosen qualified provider, what they were doing was they were violating her rights and that the Medicaid Act had set up a particular type of right that she could sue over. And so this kind of involves two different laws. So it’s not just the Medicaid, excuse me, not just the initial Medicaid Act, but it’s also this older act, which is, I think, passed around the time of the 14th Amendment. And it basically says that people can sue over violations of constitutional rights, but also over violations of rights that are sort of set up by statute. And so the question in this case, And the way that the Supreme Court addressed it was whether or not this particular, whether or not this person could sue, other people could sue as well, and whether or not the Medicaid Act actually created that type of right that could be sued over. And so they ended up deciding that it was not this sort of special type of right that could be enforced through litigation from a recipient of Medicaid rights. So this is making it a lot easier for states to defund Planned Parenthood, but it doesn’t necessarily eliminate the possibility that they or it doesn’t necessarily give them a right to defund Planned Parenthood in the future because a lot of this is controlled by HHS. Medicaid is a state and federal program. So a new administration could technically come in. And I think one of the concurrences talks about this. There’s some discretion that like a Democratic administration could have over approving the Medicaid plan of a state like South Carolina that defunds Planned Parenthood.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Super interesting. And then lastly, and I said, you really called this because you had published a piece regarding the Supreme Court ruling on the birthright citizenship. And you’d published a piece about that, but you said that there was this potential caveat regarding a class action lawsuit. And that lawsuit has been filed. Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So there was in one of the original cases about birthright citizenship in Maryland, there was there’s a nationwide injunction, but quickly after the Supreme Court’s decision, the plaintiffs in that case tried to file a request for a class action. Basically, you know, basically people affected by Trump’s executive order. So, and Justice Alito talked about this. He’s saying, you know, that, and Justice Kavanaugh, they’re both saying that class actions could basically be used in the place of nationwide injunctions. There was a case also filed recently by the ACLU in New Hampshire. And in that case, a judge actually did issue a block for a provisional class that included people affected by Trump’s executive order. So, yes, I think this is what I’m saying about I think that the nationwide injunction decision is actually fairly limited beyond what the headlines might reveal because of the sort of caveats that allow people to still pursue nationwide relief.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Now, Sam Dorman, we have covered so much, and I greatly appreciate it. Your recent pieces at the Epoch Times, people can find those. And I think this one that you just recently published, we have about three minutes left, is that heroes emerge from the Texas floods and that also senators react to Musk’s American Party. I guess that wasn’t you. That was somebody else as I’m looking at that. That came up under you. So let’s…
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So that was our we have a podcast that we release on a weekly basis. And so that was we kind of have a bunch of different reporters come in. And we had our Texas reporter, Darlene Sanchez. She had a lot of really good reporting from the flood. So she talked about that.
SPEAKER 15 :
And then also, what’s kind of the last thing that you’d like to leave with our listeners? Because you are doing really amazing work, I think, in this piece regarding these these nine decisions, I think, is so important. Your final thought you’d like to leave with our listeners.
SPEAKER 03 :
share uh… yeah they think thank you for that uh… but i think you know it’s just it’d be two issues are really complicated i think that’s the main thing i did when i’m trying to buy the and that this litigation is still ongoing particularly with the nation wide junctions mean we’ll see how lower court handle it but uh… i think trump has sort of in all these legal battles has gotten a lot of abuse from the supreme court but they’re still have a long road ahead in terms of defending his policies
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and again, I think that there is a strategy, and I’m going to ask you a question. Feel free not to. You don’t have to answer this. But it seems that Justice Jackson is a little out there, I would say. Is that any kind of a thing that you could comment on?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it’s interesting because in the Nationwide Injunctions case, you saw a lot of clash between Justice Barrett and Justice Jackson where Justice Jackson was sort of writing this more, and she specifically said, you know, she wanted to write a dissent that was more conceptual. And so she wrote this dissent that was talking about how the, you know, basically the Supreme Court and the nationwide injunction decision was giving the executive branch too much power. And both she and Sotomayor used pretty strong language. And in response, Barrett had strong language also. She’s saying, you know, that basically that Justice Jackson’s opinion had no basis in precedent. I think she said something like two centuries worth of precedent, nor the Constitution. And so, yeah, it was interesting. You saw a lot of clash. And I think Justice Jackson in particular said, It’s like with among the three liberal justices, Kagan tends to join the majority more than Sotomayor and Jackson. And then Jackson, I would say, probably dissents and differs more than than all the other three. So, yeah, she’s definitely I think she’s more of an outlier compared to the other justices.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Well, Sam Dorman, you’re doing a great work. People can find you on X at Epoch of Dorman. And I would highly recommend that people check that out. And thank you for really breaking all this down. This is so important and so informative. So keep up the great work.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right. Thank you, Kim.
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