July 22, 2026 • 41 mins
The Supreme Court finally voted on Trump's whole movement and today we finish up the discussion on all things they covered.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All media. All right, y'all welcome apart to it the
Supreme Court crash out. Nerd out, y'all listen, we really
find a nerd out. Now, please forgive me because I'm
a little bit distracted. I do have another screen playing here,
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trying to keep up with the FIFA World Cup. Now,
this was recorded for you two weeks ago after the
hardest weekend for anybody melanated existed, where Capuver, Brazil and
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Mexico all got knocked out. There's no more African teams
and well, let me finish this statement. African teams that
the President would not allow their supporters to get their
visas from. But there is Morocco in Egypt and like
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my boys show, Baraka says, it's probably because the President
don't know they in Africa. Now anyway, here's where we
are and today the US is playing. Since I'm I've
been whittled down to cheering for our old D six
Bay go go anyway, I might be a little distracted,
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but I'm going to be a professional here and do
my job, okay, you know, speaking of which I'm gonna
call myself on this. Looks like Portugal and Spain are
still at zero zero, which is pretty crazy. I am
going to I'm gonna stop it. Okay, I apologize for
all that, but keep this in back because it's funny. Anyway,
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today we are going to finish discussing the Supreme Court.
We're going to talk about some really nerdy terms that
I'm pretty sure you actually will understand because that's the
premise of the show. If you understand the hood, you
understand politics. We're going to talk about the unitary executive theory.
We're going to talk about Humphrey's executor and really what's
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going on with the trands of it all, and then originalism.
I'm telling y'all were about to nerd out because all
right hood politics, all right now again, quick and dirty reminder,
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the Supreme Court gets a docket in the beginning of
their season, if you will, where they get to decide
what cases they gonna let go to trial, what cases
they gonna see, and what cases like I said that
they like, look this this should go down the lower courts.
This then they get to do a quick one, remember
one I get to talk about where they get to say, look,
we just going to decide this. This what we think
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We're not going to discuss, We're not gonna let this
go to trial. This is just what we think about
this case. Like there's the quick and dirty ones, and
then there's the ones that they actually have to see
oral arguments for. And again, remember the Supreme Court oftentimes
isn't necessarily concerned with the case itself, but what the
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case implies. They're the but what ifs? They supposed to
poke holes at somebody's position to decide whether you got
standing right, meaning are you the one that can even
bring this to us in the first place? Two is
their precedence, meaning has this already been decided? And I
don't even know why you asking us this? And then
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three is it constitutional? And that's that at the end
of the day, that's toad. They're trying to figure out
is this constitutional? Is this within your power? Is this
under the power of Congress? Right? So that's all those things.
So they get these list of cases and they decide
which ones they gonna see or not see. Nazi I
apologize and the three ones that they ended their season
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with that they was like, all right, these are the
doozies we need to talk about. These is trans women
in sports, specifically in high school sports, the president's ability
to fire people at the Federal Trade Commission, which is
an institution put together by the Congress. And then finally,
like we talked about last week, birthright citizenship. So let's
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go ahead and get into it. We're gonna we're gonna
start with the with the ruling about trans athletes. Now,
there has to be a complaintive, right, so somebody gotta
have the beef. Like, we can't just like just shout out,
you know what, I don't think this fair, nigga. No,
somebody got to actually have an actual case, and that
person needs to continually believe that they are being wronged
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and that there is a law that is being overlooked
or one that we have not discussed yet. Does that
make sense? Which brings me already to the concept of originalism,
which is a theory about how to understand the Constitution. Now,
niggas stay with me. Okay, Now let's let's let's do
Let's do some hip hop, some some rock and roll,
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and some street some street stuff. Listen, the OG's got
a rule about what a gangster is. Niggas, don't talk.
You understand what I'm saying. We cripping. There's nobody bigger
than the program. Niggas don't snitch. This is what it
means to be cripping. This is what it means to
be a gangbanger. And then there's a new generation. Look,
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let's use the TV Mafia once the ogs they ain't like, no,
John Gotti, he too flashy, you bring it too much.
You gotta remember the stance of the Mafia was that
there is no mafia. What are you talking about? Then
the other was like, yeah, that nigga, I'm a boss.
What you're talking about, I'm a copo yegga right, So
they would be like, oh, that's not g You're not
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supposed to do that. Like but but the young ling's
got these like new rules because they live in a
new system. Oh g Now, I think it's a little weird,
especially when we go back to the concept of the
of pool she heisty where he robbed he robbed Gucci
to get out of his contract. Nigga pulled out the chopper,
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had to stick on him and they filmed it like
he recorded the whole shit, like it's gonna stand up
in court like a is he out of his three sixty? Yes,
his nigga out of his three sixty. My nigga, the
man is under duress because you have an automatic weapon
and its own camera. Nigga, you filmed. I don't know
why you thought this would stand up, Like what sort
of was this supposed to be evidence that he actually
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said it? My boy, you filmed it, and the man
saying it is obviously under duress. Now listen, I'm not
in their world no more. But if I were an originalist,
I'd have been like, that's a violation. You need to
get dped. What the hell you got a camera for? Nigga,
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what is you doing right? The mojis think it's weird
that you got any friends from the other side, Like
if you a b you ain't supposed to have not
a single sea friend. Them young niggas are like, we
getting money. I don't like he I respect? Is he
respect mine? We'll figure it out. We could do it
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on like a case by case situation. They willing to
look at it as a case by case. They understand,
like Nipsey say, you only repping where your mama pay rent? Like,
I get it. You supposed to be over there. I'm
supposed to be over there. You reping your section. I'm
repping my section. It's it's families like that, mixed status
families if you will, where they daddy grew up on
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the west side, so they daddy is a blood but
daddy grew up had kids, met a woman woman who
lived on the other side, lived on the east side,
and was like, uh, they grew up and my son
grew up in with the crips, So this who what
he is? They get it? You post to wrap your
section son. Listen. But if I was an originalist, I
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would say that that person can't exist. So when it
comes to interpreting the constitution or let's let's again my bad.
Let me let me continue the example. If we talk
at hip hop or rock and roll, you know the
original lists are the guys that are like the last
real rock group was ac DC. Nobody has made rock
and roll since the Deadheads in the basement that are
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like the only true rock it ended with Ozzy Osbourne,
like those guys, right, it's the it's the rapidly wrap backpacker.
That's like if it ain't if you ain't got quadruples,
if you ain't making quintuples in your lyrics, it's not
real hip hop. Like Okay, originalists five elements. It's got
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to have all five elements. There's a critique around Lynn
Manuel Miranda's Hamilton play that is this a hip hop Broadway.
Some of the critiques are the fact that it's only
one element. You ain't got no DJs in it, ain't
no breakdancing, ain't no graffiti show, ain't no beat boxing.
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You'd understand I'm saying, Like, so there's elements missing, so
you can't call it just rap, and even the rap
that you're doing. The hip hop is inherently a protest.
It is a protest against the system, just like punk music,
like it's inherently a protest. It's inherently a rage against
the machine. So if you're not raging against the machine,
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you can't really call it right. So that's one of
the critiques if you're an originalist right now, I might
be a purist when it comes to hip hop in
some ways. But also, Nigga, relax, Okay, relax, You ain't know.
When I went to go see Smith and Wesson, do
you understand what I'm saying. I went to go see
the boot Camp click. I expected to stand there and
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nod my head and maybe some cute little Filipinas with
their little backpack also nod in their head. Ain't nobody
throwing it back to helter skelter, nigga, Sometimes you want
to be in the club with the qutie pie. You
understand what I'm trying to say right now, as I'm
just being as headow as possible, what I'm trying to
say is that rap counts too. Okay, obviously I'm King.
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I'm team Kendrick King Kunta. The Canadian lost this battle. However,
when we in the club, the Canadian plays a role.
I get it. Okay, Let these people live. You ain't
got to be such an originalist about it. Now. When
it comes to the Constitution, the idea is like, what
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did the framers imagine think of and what did they
put on? What did they originally mean? And that's all
we're here to do for now. Other people are like, well,
the documents alive, nigga, like this stuff that they couldn't imagine,
one of which is a transhuman them like they just
they're like, we couldn't thought would never cross their mind.
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So because of that, I don't know what the Constitution
is covering. Now. Here's the thing, even if it did
cross they mind nigga regular ass women. I'm saying it.
I'm trying to say it like that whole purpose, regular
degular women ain't included Nigga Needa is black people. They
called the native savages. So the Constitution wasn't thinking about
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none of us either, So like, let's just put that
on the side. You get her ste what I'm saying
either way, they're saying, what do we do with trans
female athletes in high school? Now? The Plantiff was a
seventh grader who clearly got their heart broke. Now, when
the right wing talk about it, you talking about as
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if they're imagining that what's that boy's name? The the
Ben Shapiro movie had asked, that's what they're picturing. Okay,
they're like, this is Dwayne the Rock Johnson putting a
wig on and pretending to be a girl. That's what
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they're imagining, which is silly. Obviously that's not what's going on. Right.
What's going on is you got this little seventh grade
girl who was born, you know, a young man, right,
did all the puberty blockers so didn't go through may.
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I'm trying to use these binary terms and beg you
understand the case didn't go through male puberty, right and
then join this team, right. And what the court was
saying in their decision is like, I think this might
need to be a case situation because there's a bigger
question here. You want us to make a law about something.
Remember I said with the Supreme Court posted to do
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is poke holes and shit, right, So there's like, Okay,
I know you want me to just I know you
want me to just make the call. Can trans women
play with naturally born women? And they're thinking, instinctually, nigga
does not. That's like the point of female sports was
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for fairness, Like it's because like y'all physically not Like
that's their argument, right, But this got complicated. And the
complication is if this now girl didn't go through male puberty,
then what are the advantages when you look at little boys,
Like if you got like there when they before puberty,
they just kids. I would argue that they're just kids after.
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But you understand what I'm trying to say, Like their bodies,
it's not bombarded with testosterone that gives them the different
physiological changes that, according to sports are concerned, would advantage.
We're talking gross generalities because listen, my sister was six
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years older than me and was remarkably stronger than I was.
You understand what I'm saying. So the advantages if you will,
at least as far as we're concerned with sports that
in this patriarchal society gives men an advantage, and which
is why we needed women's sports was because like y'all,
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they'll never win. You understood what I'm saying. According to again,
please forgive me, this is conventional thinking. The point I'm
trying to make is the courts was like, well, I
don't know, dude, Like, okay, we're not talking about a
grown ass man who finally went through their realization that
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they're ready to transition. But you have a please again,
forgive the binaries a male body. You understand I'm saying
that you're now transitioning to That's not what they asking now.
I know that's what the right wing is picturing, but
that's not what they're asking. They're asking like, yo, huh,
Well maybe it's different if this trans girl didn't go
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through male puberty, right, so their bodies never change, They
still a little they still a little child body. Does
that make sense? We're just talking about seventh graders and
they did the puberty blockers, so it's different. Now. If
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that's honestly what they was doing, I think this is
actually pretty valid in something we need to discuss again.
If you're an originalist in the Constitution, you actually have
nothing to say about this because your worldview don't allow it.
My nigga yours that are saying, y'all, y'all, don't listen,
listen dem OJ's got your nipsey don't fit a category
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for them? Does that make sense? Like you don't? There's
that doesn't exist for us, so we can't even discuss it.
You you following me like them eighties and seventies and
eighties gangsters like this the Kendrick doesn't. That doesn't work.
Either you is or you ain't. Does that make sense?
Like there's there's those this thing is as good kid
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mad City Like that doesn't compute for them. It's like, oh,
you're no, he's really, Oh you're a gangster. He just
says positive things and we just sending him out to
do the work, but really he a gangster. Or it's like,
oh this nigga just he just grew up here. He
is civilian, but he cool, He's just a civilian, you
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know what I'm saying, Like, there's there's no world for that.
Please the metaphor falling apart, But understand what I'm trying
to say here. If they were doing that, if they
were being nuanced, it's one thing. But judging by the
way that Clarence Thomas wrote his descent, at the end
of the day, they just don't get trans I think
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they just I think trans people just based on how
they wrote, they just creaked out. I think they just
they just find trans people creepy like it's and because
I mean, and now, the only thing that makes me
happy is that nobody else signed on to Clarence Thomas's
the only black man if you will, Clarence Thomas's descent,
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because it was just like, I hate that the worst
takes coming out of the Supreme Court is out his mouth.
It's just nigga, what is you? At least at least
I mean, I can't believe I'm saying this, Justice Kavanaugh,
My nigga was at least making a nuanced approach to it.
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Him famously knowing that he coached his daughter's sports teams
like him, acknowledging the importance of female sports and being like,
I think we just the pointed this was the fairness
and the participation and the beauty, and obviously like I'm like,
I'm here for it. He is at least trying to
be nuanced. This nigga. Clarence Truments was like, a boy's
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a boy and a girl's a girl. This is gross you.
It's basically what this nigga said. I just like, I don't,
but at least at least the rest of him was like,
my nigga, shut the fuck up, cuz like you're making
us look bad. But at the end of the day,
what the Supreme Court decided was like, I'm gonna let
you handle that states. Y'all got it. No, I don't
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want to smoke, all right. Next is the president's power
to fire people. M let's go, all right, we're back.
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This about to be the nerdiest we've ever been on
this mug. Okay, So y'all gonna have to put your
thanker caps on because I'm finna give y'all some vocab
all right. Here's where NI could crash out with me.
All right. So this all started when Lena Khan got fired. Now,
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who the hell is Lena Khan. I'm glad you asked,
because nigga, you shouldn't know it. Like, I hate that,
I hate that we gotta go through this, okay. Lina
Khan was the head of the FTC, which is a
Federal Trade commission. Now, the Federal Trade Commission Commission is
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a regulatory body that does there's a lot of other
commissions and bodies that are put together like this that's
supposed to do just the nuts and bolts. They actually
they regulate, they run, they're doing the work of governing, right,
like they're the the one Like, Okay, if somebody says
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they're remodeling their house, are they the ones holding the
screws putting most of the time, No, they're not the
ones that are doing that. You understand, I'm saying, it's
somebody at surely screwing the thing into the wall. And
sometimes you may have an idea of how y'all just
went to my homegirl's house. Who's got this beautiful Like
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I only saw it when they first got it. Now
they you know, did all the renovations right, and then
there's this in the middle of their open floor, this
like wall that's kind of like real real kind of
thin and it's with and they put like a you know,
they're like wine thing like right on that wall. And
I was like, that's a support. That's a supported a
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load bearing beam right there on. They were like, yeah,
they wanted a whole open flooring, but there's a load
bearing beam right there. And the people that actually built
the shit that was like, we're not cutting that off
or your roof's gonna sack. So you can. I mean,
you can fire us, you can get somebody else to
do that. That'll cut that beam for you, but your
roof gonna fall. No, you understand that, no matter what
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your ideas are, you should trust the person actually building
the shit that's looking at the running because after you
leave this house, somebody else gonna move into it. Does
that make sense? I need to make sure it still stands.
That's a load bearing beam. We can make it look
as good as possible, but were not cutting it down.
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You know, y'all know what a load bearing beam is.
That little too old load bearing beam is like if
you in a room, you see how the room's empty,
but there's a part of one of these walls that's
actually holding the weight of the house. Does that make sense.
That's your load bearing beam that's gotta be there because
it's holding it's doing the work the weight, right, So
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the people actually building the stuff. These are the commissions,
and those commissions are put together by the Congress. Now
for ninety one years. I'm gonna talk to you about
this thing called Humphreys Executor and stay with me. Okay,
so Trump fire wait, let me go back. Trump fired
this system the second he got an off. Why because
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she ain't no conservative And you're like, or you should
be like, wait, can this nigga just fire him? It
depends on your understanding of the unitary executive theory. Ah
is a bouse. If that contractor say I ain't finna
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cut this load bearing beam down, you like, well, nigga, i'
gonna find me a contractor that will shit is my house.
Then maybe you have a unitary executive theory. But we're
gonna get to that a second. First, let's talk about
Humphrey's executor. Now, listen, this has been together for ninety
one years. This this is how it worked. Okay, the president,
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this was President Hoover. So President Hoover, I'm sorry, I'm
nerding now with y'all. President Hoover he appointed to Senate
or he appointed and then confirmed this guy named Humphrey
as the Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. In nineteen
thirty three, after Hoover left, President Roosevelt took over. Right
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this during this is the New Deal guy, right, President
Roosevelt asked this nigga to quit, Hey, cause, can you leave? Why?
Because I know you ain't gonna want to do the
shit I'm finna do right now, this New Deal shit.
I know you're not gonna be down with. So can
you just leave? When boy boy since because he was
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so conservative, right, he was like, you're not finna do
the shit I want you to do, right, So boy
boy was like, nigga, hell no, I ain't finna resign
you trying to like, no, you ain't even no right,
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And so Roosevelt just fired him. He's like, well, if
you ain't gonna quit, I'm a fire him. However, the FTC,
the f HE Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act. I'm
reading from this thing called uh oh yes, dot Org.
It's when you want to look back at like cases
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and stuff like that. He says. The Federal the Federal
Trade Commission Act only allowed a president to remove a
commissioner for an efficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance of office.
That was none of that. You just don't agree with this, nigga.
You can't fire this dude. You can fire him if
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he trash, but you can't just fire him because you
just don't vibe with him. He not an elected official.
Does that make sense? He was appointed, Like, this is
nigga job. You just don't like him, but you can't
just fire because you don't like him. That's not what
the thing says, right, So then Humphrey died pretty quick
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after he was being dismissed, so his executor sued to
recover Humphrey's lost salary because it's like, nigga, you couldn't
have fired me. He died, like you'll. First of all,
you wren't allowed to fire, so they sued, like you
won't even you weren't even allowed to fire him in
the first place. So the question is, did did Section
one of the Federal Trade Commission Act unconstitutionally interfere with
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the executive with the power of the president, Meaning does
the prey wait, wait, you saying he can only fire
the president can only fire this person because of inefficiency
and neglective duty or mouthfeasance. But does that overstep the
power of the executive office? Like are you over like wait, wait, wait,
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hold on, hold on, hold on, hold, hold up? Is
this messing up the checks and balances? Like, nigga, why
do you hold up? Let me? Let me. So that
was the question right in this case that the Supreme
Court had to discuss, and the conclusion was unanimous that
the f Seeds the ftc Act was constitutedtional and Humphrey's
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dismissal on policy grounds was unjustified. Nigga, you can't fire
this nigga just because you don't like his policy. That's
what Humphrey's executor decided ninety one years ago, which is
exactly what Trump did. He fired Home Girl because he
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didn't agree with her politically, and she was like, nigga,
what this is already a law? You can't what are
we doing? And he was like, well, if you don't
agree with me, if you don't do the stuff I
need you to do, is that not a dereliction of duty?
Is that not you saying that, like I have these positions,
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if I give you these roles. I know you disagree
with them. You're not gonna do the stuff I asked you.
Therefore you're that's a dereliction in a duty. Hold on it.
My baby's asking me, uh, would you prefer I make
tune it for you? All right? My daughter told me
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she's tired of shrimp. I make a lot of seafood.
That's a sentence. I never thought of it. Every year
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m hm. So this question is like, yo, wait, but
can these appointments that the Congress makes And you're telling me,
I can't fire this person if they don't rock with
if they don't get with the program, what then isn't
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their job to do? Like I'm the I'm the one
the people chose. Ain't they job to do? What? Like?
What's going on here? That's why I needed to go
to the Supreme Court. But this only works if you
believe in I'm sorry, I'm nerding out with y'all this
if you believe in a unitary executive power theory, which
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essentially says this. Let me try to say this. It's
that it's a theory that the United States Constitution is
that affirms that the president is the head of the
federal government's executive branch and must retain sole authority over
executive administration and officials, structurally centralizing the control within the
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unified hierarchies, right, which means that like, at the end
of the day, it's the president's power, all it all
stops at him. The buck stops with the president. The
people elected this person to make this shit go, So
at the end of the day, they need to have
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the power to make the shit go. But if you're
telling me I can't fire people that ain't gonna do
the shit I'm asking him to do, then how can
I execute the mandate of the people. This is the
argument that Trump is having right now. Do y'all remember
us talking about Chevron Deference. Y'all was talking about that
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and the major Questions doctrine. I told you we was
gonna nerd out, Okay. So this is the idea that says, Okay,
if there is a law that is ambiguous that won't
really like, is not really clear, who gets to decide? Like,
if Congress makes a law that's not really clear, who
gets to decide how you implement or not implement, whether
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we inbounds or out of bounds. Since the Supreme Court
knows law cases. They don't know the specifics of what
the hell this particular thing is about. You can't you
can't be a you can't be a specified exit expert
in everything. So you got to defer to the experts.
So the major questions is like, Yo, if we got
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questions like that, then I should be able to refer
to the case that was called Chevron deference, which says
the court gets to defer to what the experts say,
not what this company wants. The company with Chevron, you
feel me, they didn't. What they wanted was to not
be regulated, to make their buddy. And the courts was like, well, nigga,
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I mean, I'm not an expert on crude oil, but
they are. Do you know what I'm saying? So I'm
gon add it's them, Hey, are nim Nigga's tripping? And
the Commission was like, nim niggas is tripping. They just
trying to make money, Nigga, They finna burn up all
the fish, gonna have three eyes and shit. So then
the courts was like, yeah, you know, I can't be
an expert on all this. So Congress, if you make
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a law and we won't understand it, we just gonna
ask y'all to explain it or put together some sort
of commission when it's not clear. Here's the thing about
the ftc My boy, it's clear. It's very clear. On
a future episode, we're gonna talk about why it's be
very difficult for Nitia Rahman to be a Zora'm mom Donnie.
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And it's because of the way that the Los Angeles
Charter is set up, the way that power is diffused, right,
It's so power is distributed between the city council and
the County Commissioner. Why because LA was so large and
neighborhoods started writing their own charter. So that meant that
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like in the middle of Los Angeles, like is another
city where like it's not like the city limits stop.
It be in the middle of it, like bel Air
is its own city, you understand what I'm saying. So
sometimes it be parts of LA where you're driving down
the street, you cross into a city and then cross
out of that city and you back in LA again.
Because so so that means that there might be a
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section of this where damn, it's a huge homeless encampment there,
but across the street is pristine. That's because one side
of city, the other side is county. Nigga is across
the street. It's just the way that our city is
set up. What they were trying to do was to
diffuse power because a lot of these people was coming
from the Tamney Hall, the East Coast, you know, Chicago,
(33:49):
New York way of running things, where the Rockefellers in
them and Carnegiese just bought a politician. And since it
was so top down in New York, you couldn't get
nothing done. All you had to do was pay, you
pay to make sure that you had a guy in charge.
So corruption was so much easier over there. Right, So
by design we diffused power. This is what they're trying
(34:10):
to say, is like, well, here's the thing, bro, Like
this is by design, Like you shouldn't just be able
to fire everybody just because you don't like them. That's
no one man should have all that power, is the argument. Right.
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So another good example would be like AI, right, because
it's not just a federal trade commissions, any commission, right,
the Congress has the power to put them together and
put the people in place. Right, Because the way to
have a stable culture and economy is some sort of consistency, right,
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I need to know that the law is the law. Now. Granted,
I'm black, so it's not like these people follow the law,
especially when it comes to me. But the point I'm
trying to say is like, essentially, nigga, this is illegal. Nigga,
this is not okay. I'm the one actually screwing the
hole into the drywall. If you don't like the type
of screws I use, you can't just fire me, my nigga.
(35:13):
These are the screws that keep the walls up. I
just what do you want me to say? Right? You
want me to use the screws you won't, But the
screws you won't, I'm trying to tell you ain't gonna work. Well,
maybe they will, I'm just not like. What I'm trying
(35:34):
to tell you is I'm the expert in the shit, right,
and we all got to live in this building, you understand,
So there needs to be some sort of consistency. And
the way that we design this is to say, all
the way back for ninety one years, it's like, bro,
look it, if he not doing his job, that's different.
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But if you just don't like his positions, ow only
thing you should be able to you should be able
to do this, right, you know what the Supreme Court
decided was, yeah, he should be able to do this.
So yeah, President can fire you if they don't, you know,
(36:17):
based on whether they think you you're gonna get with
the program. And finally, birthright citizenship this past five to four,
which is terrifying to me, Like we talked about last week,
because I thought y'all was originalists and it seemed like
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the fourteenth Amendment even the and a domicile meaning like
your main residence or subject to the jurisdiction thereof like
we talked about last week, is the thing that was
they was all getting hung up on. But all of
(37:05):
a sudden, all of a sudden, these conservative thinking Supreme
Court policy wonks, all of a sudden want to talk
about the idea that like, well, the Framers couldn't have
imagined anchor babies, or the ability to travel across the
(37:26):
world and get here in hours or walk it. They
couldn't imagine like you know, mixed status families or political
site like it. Couldn't imagine these things. So we need
to make sure that our laws match the reality that
we're in now, which is like my Nigga, that seems
to be pretty convenient that all of a sudden you
want to reinterpret the Constitution based on the times because
(37:50):
before you was originalist, Because if you was an originalist,
you would be like, I don't know why y'all talking
to us anyway, Nigga, the fourteenth the mimic clear, but
alas six to three, at least they did something. Birthright citizenship,
Nigga is exactly what it sounds like. Trump is just
phenomenally incorrect, just loud and wrong about America being the
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only country that has it. Nigga is just just I mean,
it's just verifiably false. That's just it's verifiably false. But
at the end of the day, the agreement was look, man,
if you're born here, you're a citizen. Duh. And that
(38:39):
was their crash out. But we'll see because it barely passed,
which meant that, you know what, does Miles and them
call them teenage mutant Ninja Gebels Steven Miller is gonna
try to come back and appeal this mug and push
at it, which is this scary part where it's just like,
(39:01):
I don't know why this wasn't the easiest question they
was ever asked anyway. That's it on the Supreme Court
crash out. We'll see what happens next year when the
new season starts with them. But there it is. Y'all.
Learn some new words. Humphrey's executor, unitary, unified executive theory,
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chevron deference, major questions. Good for y'all, you smartest head.
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All media. All right, y'all welcome apart to it the
Supreme Court crash out. Nerd out, y'all listen, we really
find a nerd out. Now, please forgive me because I'm
a little bit distracted. I do have another screen playing here,
(00:24):
trying to keep up with the FIFA World Cup. Now,
this was recorded for you two weeks ago after the
hardest weekend for anybody melanated existed, where Capuver, Brazil and
(00:46):
Mexico all got knocked out. There's no more African teams
and well, let me finish this statement. African teams that
the President would not allow their supporters to get their
visas from. But there is Morocco in Egypt and like
(01:08):
my boys show, Baraka says, it's probably because the President
don't know they in Africa. Now anyway, here's where we
are and today the US is playing. Since I'm I've
been whittled down to cheering for our old D six
Bay go go anyway, I might be a little distracted,
(01:30):
but I'm going to be a professional here and do
my job, okay, you know, speaking of which I'm gonna
call myself on this. Looks like Portugal and Spain are
still at zero zero, which is pretty crazy. I am
going to I'm gonna stop it. Okay, I apologize for
all that, but keep this in back because it's funny. Anyway,
(01:52):
today we are going to finish discussing the Supreme Court.
We're going to talk about some really nerdy terms that
I'm pretty sure you actually will understand because that's the
premise of the show. If you understand the hood, you
understand politics. We're going to talk about the unitary executive theory.
We're going to talk about Humphrey's executor and really what's
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going on with the trands of it all, and then originalism.
I'm telling y'all were about to nerd out because all
right hood politics, all right now again, quick and dirty reminder,
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the Supreme Court gets a docket in the beginning of
their season, if you will, where they get to decide
what cases they gonna let go to trial, what cases
they gonna see, and what cases like I said that
they like, look this this should go down the lower courts.
This then they get to do a quick one, remember
one I get to talk about where they get to say, look,
we just going to decide this. This what we think
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We're not going to discuss, We're not gonna let this
go to trial. This is just what we think about
this case. Like there's the quick and dirty ones, and
then there's the ones that they actually have to see
oral arguments for. And again, remember the Supreme Court oftentimes
isn't necessarily concerned with the case itself, but what the
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case implies. They're the but what ifs? They supposed to
poke holes at somebody's position to decide whether you got
standing right, meaning are you the one that can even
bring this to us in the first place? Two is
their precedence, meaning has this already been decided? And I
don't even know why you asking us this? And then
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three is it constitutional? And that's that at the end
of the day, that's toad. They're trying to figure out
is this constitutional? Is this within your power? Is this
under the power of Congress? Right? So that's all those things.
So they get these list of cases and they decide
which ones they gonna see or not see. Nazi I
apologize and the three ones that they ended their season
(04:14):
with that they was like, all right, these are the
doozies we need to talk about. These is trans women
in sports, specifically in high school sports, the president's ability
to fire people at the Federal Trade Commission, which is
an institution put together by the Congress. And then finally,
like we talked about last week, birthright citizenship. So let's
(04:38):
go ahead and get into it. We're gonna we're gonna
start with the with the ruling about trans athletes. Now,
there has to be a complaintive, right, so somebody gotta
have the beef. Like, we can't just like just shout out,
you know what, I don't think this fair, nigga. No,
somebody got to actually have an actual case, and that
person needs to continually believe that they are being wronged
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and that there is a law that is being overlooked
or one that we have not discussed yet. Does that
make sense? Which brings me already to the concept of originalism,
which is a theory about how to understand the Constitution. Now,
niggas stay with me. Okay, Now let's let's let's do
Let's do some hip hop, some some rock and roll,
(05:25):
and some street some street stuff. Listen, the OG's got
a rule about what a gangster is. Niggas, don't talk.
You understand what I'm saying. We cripping. There's nobody bigger
than the program. Niggas don't snitch. This is what it
means to be cripping. This is what it means to
be a gangbanger. And then there's a new generation. Look,
(05:46):
let's use the TV Mafia once the ogs they ain't like, no,
John Gotti, he too flashy, you bring it too much.
You gotta remember the stance of the Mafia was that
there is no mafia. What are you talking about? Then
the other was like, yeah, that nigga, I'm a boss.
What you're talking about, I'm a copo yegga right, So
they would be like, oh, that's not g You're not
(06:09):
supposed to do that. Like but but the young ling's
got these like new rules because they live in a
new system. Oh g Now, I think it's a little weird,
especially when we go back to the concept of the
of pool she heisty where he robbed he robbed Gucci
to get out of his contract. Nigga pulled out the chopper,
(06:31):
had to stick on him and they filmed it like
he recorded the whole shit, like it's gonna stand up
in court like a is he out of his three sixty? Yes,
his nigga out of his three sixty. My nigga, the
man is under duress because you have an automatic weapon
and its own camera. Nigga, you filmed. I don't know
why you thought this would stand up, Like what sort
of was this supposed to be evidence that he actually
(06:52):
said it? My boy, you filmed it, and the man
saying it is obviously under duress. Now listen, I'm not
in their world no more. But if I were an originalist,
I'd have been like, that's a violation. You need to
get dped. What the hell you got a camera for? Nigga,
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what is you doing right? The mojis think it's weird
that you got any friends from the other side, Like
if you a b you ain't supposed to have not
a single sea friend. Them young niggas are like, we
getting money. I don't like he I respect? Is he
respect mine? We'll figure it out. We could do it
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on like a case by case situation. They willing to
look at it as a case by case. They understand,
like Nipsey say, you only repping where your mama pay rent? Like,
I get it. You supposed to be over there. I'm
supposed to be over there. You reping your section. I'm
repping my section. It's it's families like that, mixed status
families if you will, where they daddy grew up on
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the west side, so they daddy is a blood but
daddy grew up had kids, met a woman woman who
lived on the other side, lived on the east side,
and was like, uh, they grew up and my son
grew up in with the crips, So this who what
he is? They get it? You post to wrap your
section son. Listen. But if I was an originalist, I
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would say that that person can't exist. So when it
comes to interpreting the constitution or let's let's again my bad.
Let me let me continue the example. If we talk
at hip hop or rock and roll, you know the
original lists are the guys that are like the last
real rock group was ac DC. Nobody has made rock
and roll since the Deadheads in the basement that are
(08:43):
like the only true rock it ended with Ozzy Osbourne,
like those guys, right, it's the it's the rapidly wrap backpacker.
That's like if it ain't if you ain't got quadruples,
if you ain't making quintuples in your lyrics, it's not
real hip hop. Like Okay, originalists five elements. It's got
(09:08):
to have all five elements. There's a critique around Lynn
Manuel Miranda's Hamilton play that is this a hip hop Broadway.
Some of the critiques are the fact that it's only
one element. You ain't got no DJs in it, ain't
no breakdancing, ain't no graffiti show, ain't no beat boxing.
(09:30):
You'd understand I'm saying, Like, so there's elements missing, so
you can't call it just rap, and even the rap
that you're doing. The hip hop is inherently a protest.
It is a protest against the system, just like punk music,
like it's inherently a protest. It's inherently a rage against
the machine. So if you're not raging against the machine,
(09:53):
you can't really call it right. So that's one of
the critiques if you're an originalist right now, I might
be a purist when it comes to hip hop in
some ways. But also, Nigga, relax, Okay, relax, You ain't know.
When I went to go see Smith and Wesson, do
you understand what I'm saying. I went to go see
the boot Camp click. I expected to stand there and
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nod my head and maybe some cute little Filipinas with
their little backpack also nod in their head. Ain't nobody
throwing it back to helter skelter, nigga, Sometimes you want
to be in the club with the qutie pie. You
understand what I'm trying to say right now, as I'm
just being as headow as possible, what I'm trying to
say is that rap counts too. Okay, obviously I'm King.
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I'm team Kendrick King Kunta. The Canadian lost this battle. However,
when we in the club, the Canadian plays a role.
I get it. Okay, Let these people live. You ain't
got to be such an originalist about it. Now. When
it comes to the Constitution, the idea is like, what
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did the framers imagine think of and what did they
put on? What did they originally mean? And that's all
we're here to do for now. Other people are like, well,
the documents alive, nigga, like this stuff that they couldn't imagine,
one of which is a transhuman them like they just
they're like, we couldn't thought would never cross their mind.
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So because of that, I don't know what the Constitution
is covering. Now. Here's the thing, even if it did
cross they mind nigga regular ass women. I'm saying it.
I'm trying to say it like that whole purpose, regular
degular women ain't included Nigga Needa is black people. They
called the native savages. So the Constitution wasn't thinking about
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none of us either, So like, let's just put that
on the side. You get her ste what I'm saying
either way, they're saying, what do we do with trans
female athletes in high school? Now? The Plantiff was a
seventh grader who clearly got their heart broke. Now, when
the right wing talk about it, you talking about as
(12:05):
if they're imagining that what's that boy's name? The the
Ben Shapiro movie had asked, that's what they're picturing. Okay,
they're like, this is Dwayne the Rock Johnson putting a
wig on and pretending to be a girl. That's what
(12:26):
they're imagining, which is silly. Obviously that's not what's going on. Right.
What's going on is you got this little seventh grade
girl who was born, you know, a young man, right,
did all the puberty blockers so didn't go through may.
(12:46):
I'm trying to use these binary terms and beg you
understand the case didn't go through male puberty, right and
then join this team, right. And what the court was
saying in their decision is like, I think this might
need to be a case situation because there's a bigger
question here. You want us to make a law about something.
Remember I said with the Supreme Court posted to do
(13:07):
is poke holes and shit, right, So there's like, Okay,
I know you want me to just I know you
want me to just make the call. Can trans women
play with naturally born women? And they're thinking, instinctually, nigga
does not. That's like the point of female sports was
(13:28):
for fairness, Like it's because like y'all physically not Like
that's their argument, right, But this got complicated. And the
complication is if this now girl didn't go through male puberty,
then what are the advantages when you look at little boys,
Like if you got like there when they before puberty,
they just kids. I would argue that they're just kids after.
(13:52):
But you understand what I'm trying to say, Like their bodies,
it's not bombarded with testosterone that gives them the different
physiological changes that, according to sports are concerned, would advantage.
We're talking gross generalities because listen, my sister was six
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years older than me and was remarkably stronger than I was.
You understand what I'm saying. So the advantages if you will,
at least as far as we're concerned with sports that
in this patriarchal society gives men an advantage, and which
is why we needed women's sports was because like y'all,
(14:35):
they'll never win. You understood what I'm saying. According to again,
please forgive me, this is conventional thinking. The point I'm
trying to make is the courts was like, well, I
don't know, dude, Like, okay, we're not talking about a
grown ass man who finally went through their realization that
(14:58):
they're ready to transition. But you have a please again,
forgive the binaries a male body. You understand I'm saying
that you're now transitioning to That's not what they asking now.
I know that's what the right wing is picturing, but
that's not what they're asking. They're asking like, yo, huh,
Well maybe it's different if this trans girl didn't go
(15:21):
through male puberty, right, so their bodies never change, They
still a little they still a little child body. Does
that make sense? We're just talking about seventh graders and
they did the puberty blockers, so it's different. Now. If
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that's honestly what they was doing, I think this is
actually pretty valid in something we need to discuss again.
If you're an originalist in the Constitution, you actually have
nothing to say about this because your worldview don't allow it.
My nigga yours that are saying, y'all, y'all, don't listen,
listen dem OJ's got your nipsey don't fit a category
(16:06):
for them? Does that make sense? Like you don't? There's
that doesn't exist for us, so we can't even discuss it.
You you following me like them eighties and seventies and
eighties gangsters like this the Kendrick doesn't. That doesn't work.
Either you is or you ain't. Does that make sense?
Like there's there's those this thing is as good kid
(16:29):
mad City Like that doesn't compute for them. It's like, oh,
you're no, he's really, Oh you're a gangster. He just
says positive things and we just sending him out to
do the work, but really he a gangster. Or it's like,
oh this nigga just he just grew up here. He
is civilian, but he cool, He's just a civilian, you
(16:50):
know what I'm saying, Like, there's there's no world for that.
Please the metaphor falling apart, But understand what I'm trying
to say here. If they were doing that, if they
were being nuanced, it's one thing. But judging by the
way that Clarence Thomas wrote his descent, at the end
of the day, they just don't get trans I think
(17:16):
they just I think trans people just based on how
they wrote, they just creaked out. I think they just
they just find trans people creepy like it's and because
I mean, and now, the only thing that makes me
happy is that nobody else signed on to Clarence Thomas's
the only black man if you will, Clarence Thomas's descent,
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because it was just like, I hate that the worst
takes coming out of the Supreme Court is out his mouth.
It's just nigga, what is you? At least at least
I mean, I can't believe I'm saying this, Justice Kavanaugh,
My nigga was at least making a nuanced approach to it.
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Him famously knowing that he coached his daughter's sports teams
like him, acknowledging the importance of female sports and being like,
I think we just the pointed this was the fairness
and the participation and the beauty, and obviously like I'm like,
I'm here for it. He is at least trying to
be nuanced. This nigga. Clarence Truments was like, a boy's
(18:26):
a boy and a girl's a girl. This is gross you.
It's basically what this nigga said. I just like, I don't,
but at least at least the rest of him was like,
my nigga, shut the fuck up, cuz like you're making
us look bad. But at the end of the day,
what the Supreme Court decided was like, I'm gonna let
you handle that states. Y'all got it. No, I don't
(18:49):
want to smoke, all right. Next is the president's power
to fire people. M let's go, all right, we're back.
(19:45):
This about to be the nerdiest we've ever been on
this mug. Okay, So y'all gonna have to put your
thanker caps on because I'm finna give y'all some vocab
all right. Here's where NI could crash out with me.
All right. So this all started when Lena Khan got fired. Now,
(20:05):
who the hell is Lena Khan. I'm glad you asked,
because nigga, you shouldn't know it. Like, I hate that,
I hate that we gotta go through this, okay. Lina
Khan was the head of the FTC, which is a
Federal Trade commission. Now, the Federal Trade Commission Commission is
(20:26):
a regulatory body that does there's a lot of other
commissions and bodies that are put together like this that's
supposed to do just the nuts and bolts. They actually
they regulate, they run, they're doing the work of governing, right,
like they're the the one Like, Okay, if somebody says
(20:48):
they're remodeling their house, are they the ones holding the
screws putting most of the time, No, they're not the
ones that are doing that. You understand, I'm saying, it's
somebody at surely screwing the thing into the wall. And
sometimes you may have an idea of how y'all just
went to my homegirl's house. Who's got this beautiful Like
(21:10):
I only saw it when they first got it. Now
they you know, did all the renovations right, and then
there's this in the middle of their open floor, this
like wall that's kind of like real real kind of
thin and it's with and they put like a you know,
they're like wine thing like right on that wall. And
I was like, that's a support. That's a supported a
(21:32):
load bearing beam right there on. They were like, yeah,
they wanted a whole open flooring, but there's a load
bearing beam right there. And the people that actually built
the shit that was like, we're not cutting that off
or your roof's gonna sack. So you can. I mean,
you can fire us, you can get somebody else to
do that. That'll cut that beam for you, but your
roof gonna fall. No, you understand that, no matter what
(21:54):
your ideas are, you should trust the person actually building
the shit that's looking at the running because after you
leave this house, somebody else gonna move into it. Does
that make sense? I need to make sure it still stands.
That's a load bearing beam. We can make it look
as good as possible, but were not cutting it down.
(22:15):
You know, y'all know what a load bearing beam is.
That little too old load bearing beam is like if
you in a room, you see how the room's empty,
but there's a part of one of these walls that's
actually holding the weight of the house. Does that make sense.
That's your load bearing beam that's gotta be there because
it's holding it's doing the work the weight, right, So
(22:38):
the people actually building the stuff. These are the commissions,
and those commissions are put together by the Congress. Now
for ninety one years. I'm gonna talk to you about
this thing called Humphreys Executor and stay with me. Okay,
so Trump fire wait, let me go back. Trump fired
this system the second he got an off. Why because
(23:01):
she ain't no conservative And you're like, or you should
be like, wait, can this nigga just fire him? It
depends on your understanding of the unitary executive theory. Ah
is a bouse. If that contractor say I ain't finna
(23:22):
cut this load bearing beam down, you like, well, nigga, i'
gonna find me a contractor that will shit is my house.
Then maybe you have a unitary executive theory. But we're
gonna get to that a second. First, let's talk about
Humphrey's executor. Now, listen, this has been together for ninety
one years. This this is how it worked. Okay, the president,
(23:43):
this was President Hoover. So President Hoover, I'm sorry, I'm
nerding now with y'all. President Hoover he appointed to Senate
or he appointed and then confirmed this guy named Humphrey
as the Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. In nineteen
thirty three, after Hoover left, President Roosevelt took over. Right
(24:03):
this during this is the New Deal guy, right, President
Roosevelt asked this nigga to quit, Hey, cause, can you leave? Why?
Because I know you ain't gonna want to do the
shit I'm finna do right now, this New Deal shit.
I know you're not gonna be down with. So can
you just leave? When boy boy since because he was
(24:26):
so conservative, right, he was like, you're not finna do
the shit I want you to do, right, So boy
boy was like, nigga, hell no, I ain't finna resign
you trying to like, no, you ain't even no right,
(24:47):
And so Roosevelt just fired him. He's like, well, if
you ain't gonna quit, I'm a fire him. However, the FTC,
the f HE Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act. I'm
reading from this thing called uh oh yes, dot Org.
It's when you want to look back at like cases
(25:08):
and stuff like that. He says. The Federal the Federal
Trade Commission Act only allowed a president to remove a
commissioner for an efficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance of office.
That was none of that. You just don't agree with this, nigga.
You can't fire this dude. You can fire him if
(25:29):
he trash, but you can't just fire him because you
just don't vibe with him. He not an elected official.
Does that make sense? He was appointed, Like, this is
nigga job. You just don't like him, but you can't
just fire because you don't like him. That's not what
the thing says, right, So then Humphrey died pretty quick
(25:54):
after he was being dismissed, so his executor sued to
recover Humphrey's lost salary because it's like, nigga, you couldn't
have fired me. He died, like you'll. First of all,
you wren't allowed to fire, so they sued, like you
won't even you weren't even allowed to fire him in
the first place. So the question is, did did Section
one of the Federal Trade Commission Act unconstitutionally interfere with
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the executive with the power of the president, Meaning does
the prey wait, wait, you saying he can only fire
the president can only fire this person because of inefficiency
and neglective duty or mouthfeasance. But does that overstep the
power of the executive office? Like are you over like wait, wait, wait,
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hold on, hold on, hold on, hold, hold up? Is
this messing up the checks and balances? Like, nigga, why
do you hold up? Let me? Let me. So that
was the question right in this case that the Supreme
Court had to discuss, and the conclusion was unanimous that
the f Seeds the ftc Act was constitutedtional and Humphrey's
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dismissal on policy grounds was unjustified. Nigga, you can't fire
this nigga just because you don't like his policy. That's
what Humphrey's executor decided ninety one years ago, which is
exactly what Trump did. He fired Home Girl because he
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didn't agree with her politically, and she was like, nigga,
what this is already a law? You can't what are
we doing? And he was like, well, if you don't
agree with me, if you don't do the stuff I
need you to do, is that not a dereliction of duty?
Is that not you saying that, like I have these positions,
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if I give you these roles. I know you disagree
with them. You're not gonna do the stuff I asked you.
Therefore you're that's a dereliction in a duty. Hold on it.
My baby's asking me, uh, would you prefer I make
tune it for you? All right? My daughter told me
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she's tired of shrimp. I make a lot of seafood.
That's a sentence. I never thought of it. Every year
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m hm. So this question is like, yo, wait, but
can these appointments that the Congress makes And you're telling me,
I can't fire this person if they don't rock with
if they don't get with the program, what then isn't
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their job to do? Like I'm the I'm the one
the people chose. Ain't they job to do? What? Like?
What's going on here? That's why I needed to go
to the Supreme Court. But this only works if you
believe in I'm sorry, I'm nerding out with y'all this
if you believe in a unitary executive power theory, which
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essentially says this. Let me try to say this. It's
that it's a theory that the United States Constitution is
that affirms that the president is the head of the
federal government's executive branch and must retain sole authority over
executive administration and officials, structurally centralizing the control within the
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unified hierarchies, right, which means that like, at the end
of the day, it's the president's power, all it all
stops at him. The buck stops with the president. The
people elected this person to make this shit go, So
at the end of the day, they need to have
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the power to make the shit go. But if you're
telling me I can't fire people that ain't gonna do
the shit I'm asking him to do, then how can
I execute the mandate of the people. This is the
argument that Trump is having right now. Do y'all remember
us talking about Chevron Deference. Y'all was talking about that
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and the major Questions doctrine. I told you we was
gonna nerd out, Okay. So this is the idea that says, Okay,
if there is a law that is ambiguous that won't
really like, is not really clear, who gets to decide? Like,
if Congress makes a law that's not really clear, who
gets to decide how you implement or not implement, whether
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we inbounds or out of bounds. Since the Supreme Court
knows law cases. They don't know the specifics of what
the hell this particular thing is about. You can't you
can't be a you can't be a specified exit expert
in everything. So you got to defer to the experts.
So the major questions is like, Yo, if we got
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questions like that, then I should be able to refer
to the case that was called Chevron deference, which says
the court gets to defer to what the experts say,
not what this company wants. The company with Chevron, you
feel me, they didn't. What they wanted was to not
be regulated, to make their buddy. And the courts was like, well, nigga,
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I mean, I'm not an expert on crude oil, but
they are. Do you know what I'm saying? So I'm
gon add it's them, Hey, are nim Nigga's tripping? And
the Commission was like, nim niggas is tripping. They just
trying to make money, Nigga, They finna burn up all
the fish, gonna have three eyes and shit. So then
the courts was like, yeah, you know, I can't be
an expert on all this. So Congress, if you make
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a law and we won't understand it, we just gonna
ask y'all to explain it or put together some sort
of commission when it's not clear. Here's the thing about
the ftc My boy, it's clear. It's very clear. On
a future episode, we're gonna talk about why it's be
very difficult for Nitia Rahman to be a Zora'm mom Donnie.
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And it's because of the way that the Los Angeles
Charter is set up, the way that power is diffused, right,
It's so power is distributed between the city council and
the County Commissioner. Why because LA was so large and
neighborhoods started writing their own charter. So that meant that
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like in the middle of Los Angeles, like is another
city where like it's not like the city limits stop.
It be in the middle of it, like bel Air
is its own city, you understand what I'm saying. So
sometimes it be parts of LA where you're driving down
the street, you cross into a city and then cross
out of that city and you back in LA again.
Because so so that means that there might be a
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section of this where damn, it's a huge homeless encampment there,
but across the street is pristine. That's because one side
of city, the other side is county. Nigga is across
the street. It's just the way that our city is
set up. What they were trying to do was to
diffuse power because a lot of these people was coming
from the Tamney Hall, the East Coast, you know, Chicago,
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New York way of running things, where the Rockefellers in
them and Carnegiese just bought a politician. And since it
was so top down in New York, you couldn't get
nothing done. All you had to do was pay, you
pay to make sure that you had a guy in charge.
So corruption was so much easier over there. Right, So
by design we diffused power. This is what they're trying
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to say, is like, well, here's the thing, bro, Like
this is by design, Like you shouldn't just be able
to fire everybody just because you don't like them. That's
no one man should have all that power, is the argument. Right.
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So another good example would be like AI, right, because
it's not just a federal trade commissions, any commission, right,
the Congress has the power to put them together and
put the people in place. Right, Because the way to
have a stable culture and economy is some sort of consistency, right,
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I need to know that the law is the law. Now. Granted,
I'm black, so it's not like these people follow the law,
especially when it comes to me. But the point I'm
trying to say is like, essentially, nigga, this is illegal. Nigga,
this is not okay. I'm the one actually screwing the
hole into the drywall. If you don't like the type
of screws I use, you can't just fire me, my nigga.
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These are the screws that keep the walls up. I
just what do you want me to say? Right? You
want me to use the screws you won't, But the
screws you won't, I'm trying to tell you ain't gonna work. Well,
maybe they will, I'm just not like. What I'm trying
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to tell you is I'm the expert in the shit, right,
and we all got to live in this building, you understand,
So there needs to be some sort of consistency. And
the way that we design this is to say, all
the way back for ninety one years, it's like, bro,
look it, if he not doing his job, that's different.
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But if you just don't like his positions, ow only
thing you should be able to you should be able
to do this, right, you know what the Supreme Court
decided was, yeah, he should be able to do this.
So yeah, President can fire you if they don't, you know,
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based on whether they think you you're gonna get with
the program. And finally, birthright citizenship this past five to four,
which is terrifying to me, Like we talked about last week,
because I thought y'all was originalists and it seemed like
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the fourteenth Amendment even the and a domicile meaning like
your main residence or subject to the jurisdiction thereof like
we talked about last week, is the thing that was
they was all getting hung up on. But all of
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a sudden, all of a sudden, these conservative thinking Supreme
Court policy wonks, all of a sudden want to talk
about the idea that like, well, the Framers couldn't have
imagined anchor babies, or the ability to travel across the
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world and get here in hours or walk it. They
couldn't imagine like you know, mixed status families or political
site like it. Couldn't imagine these things. So we need
to make sure that our laws match the reality that
we're in now, which is like my Nigga, that seems
to be pretty convenient that all of a sudden you
want to reinterpret the Constitution based on the times because
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before you was originalist, Because if you was an originalist,
you would be like, I don't know why y'all talking
to us anyway, Nigga, the fourteenth the mimic clear, but
alas six to three, at least they did something. Birthright citizenship,
Nigga is exactly what it sounds like. Trump is just
phenomenally incorrect, just loud and wrong about America being the
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only country that has it. Nigga is just just I mean,
it's just verifiably false. That's just it's verifiably false. But
at the end of the day, the agreement was look, man,
if you're born here, you're a citizen. Duh. And that
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was their crash out. But we'll see because it barely passed,
which meant that, you know what, does Miles and them
call them teenage mutant Ninja Gebels Steven Miller is gonna
try to come back and appeal this mug and push
at it, which is this scary part where it's just like,
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I don't know why this wasn't the easiest question they
was ever asked anyway. That's it on the Supreme Court
crash out. We'll see what happens next year when the
new season starts with them. But there it is. Y'all.
Learn some new words. Humphrey's executor, unitary, unified executive theory,
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chevron deference, major questions. Good for y'all, you smartest head.
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All right now, don't you hit stop on this pod.
You better listen to these credits. I need you to
finish this thing so I can get the download numbers. Okay,
so don't stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded
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scoring is also by the one and overly Mattowsowski. Still
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