December 27, 2025 • 10 mins
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Legal and Constitutional Battles involving President Donald Trump
- A recent Supreme Court decision denying the Trump administration's request to federalize Illinois National Guard troops to assist ICE agents in Chicago.
- The ruling emphasized that the administration failed to identify statutory authority for deploying military forces to enforce laws in Illinois.
- Details of the majority opinion, concurring opinion by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and dissenting opinions by Justices Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch.
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Republican Voter Registration Gains in Pennsylvania
- Highlights a significant surge in GOP voter registrations in Pennsylvania, noting a net gain of 12,488 registrations in one week.
- Compares current Democratic registration advantage (about 49,558 voters) to a much larger lead in 2016 (nearly 916,000 voters).
- Points out a long-term trend: since the 2024 election cycle, Democrats have lost 449,000 registered voters, while Republicans lost 222,000, resulting in a net GOP gain of 227,000 voters.
- Mentions Trump’s economic achievements in Pennsylvania, including 60,000 new jobs and $100 billion in investments, as part of his second-term agenda.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
How you doing it first lady? Oh, look at you, lady?
Is this the.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Greatest first lady?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
People love our first lady, right, I think? Yeah? Look
at how elegance is the first lady.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Look at you.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Good Saturday morning. It's nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two
big stories for you this morning. The Supreme Court of
the United States of America is keeping Donald Trump from
sending three hundred National Guard troop to Chicago. So what
will the President do next? We'll explain it to you. Also,
the GOP is netted twelve thousand voter registration surge in
(00:41):
Pennsylvania in one week as Democrat lead shrinks over time.
We'll explain it to you. Operation Overlord the d Day Beaches.
You and I share a passion for history, so I
hope you'll join me next spring on the d DA
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of sand with me. Ten days in Europe, luxury hotels
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Patten's grave site by Stone Point Duhal and Mulberry Harbor.
Call my friends at Conservative Tours on your cell phone.
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(01:47):
seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Story number one.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Where do we even start now? When it comes to
the victories that the President has given us and how
the media continues to have egg on their face as
they lie and they get it wrong. We also know
that the President of the United States of America has
had to fight other battles. That includes the legal battles
that are coming at him as Democrats will appeal on
(02:14):
anything to the Supreme Court. Now, the Supreme Court has
ruled against President Donald Trump's plan to federalize and send
three hundred Illinois National Guardsmen to the sanctuary city of
Chicago to help protect immigration and Customers enforcement agents from
the violent rioters there. You got to understand, in Chicago
(02:34):
and in Illinois, you've got a hardcore leftist radical governor
and Pritzker who doesn't care that he was the death
capital of America in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
In October, Trumpet sought to deploy the National Guard asss
ICE agents, but a federal judge appointed by former President
Joe Biden blocked the effort with a temporary restraining order.
When the Trump administration asked the US Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit to stay the judges order, the
Penalty Judges denied the administration's plea. That is, when the
(03:05):
Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to stay the federal
judge's order so National guardsmen could be deployed to Chicago. Well,
this week, Scotis ruled in a six' to three decision
that The trump administration court has failed to identify a
source of authority that would allow the military to execute
laws the laws In, illinois and therefore the administration's application
(03:28):
for stay was. Denied now at the preliminary, stage the
government has failed to identify a, source they, say of
authority that would allow the military to execute the laws In.
Illinois The president has not invoked a statue that provides
an exception for. This, instead he relied on inherent constitutional authority,
that according to the, government allows him to use the
(03:50):
military to protect federal personnel and. Property but the government also,
claimed consistent with the long standing view of the executive,
branch that performing such protect to functions does not constitute
executing the laws within the meaning of The. Act if
that is, correct it's hard to see how performing those
functions could constitute executing the laws under one twenty four
(04:14):
h Six dash. Three This court does not lightly assume
That congress silently silently attached attaches different meanings to the
same term in the same term in the same or related. Statutes,
thus at the least in this, posture the government has
not carried its burden to show that the permit that
this permits The president to federalize the guard in the
(04:37):
expos of inherent authority to protect federal personnel and property In.
Illinois we need not and do not address the reviewability
of findings made by The president under one twenty four
oh Six dash three or any other, statue the application
to for stay is. Denied, Now Justice Robert Saidamaior, Kagan Amy,
(05:00):
Cony Barrett Brown. Jackson they all backed the unsigned order
By Justice Brett, kavanaugh who wrote a concurring. Opinion Justice
alito wrote descending, opinion Which Justice thomas joined The Justice
neil gorsa trot ascending opinion as, well saying, this whatever
one may think about the current administration's enforcement of the
(05:22):
immigration laws or the WAY ice has conducted its, operations
the protection of federal officers from potentially lethal attacks should be.
Thwarted alito wrote in these dissenting, OPINION i therefore respectfully.
Dissent now this all goes back to the issue of
if you are dealing with individuals who refuse to abide
(05:46):
by the laws of the land and break the federal,
laws should, you as a, citizen be held hostage in that?
SCENARIO i would argue and say absolutely. Not, now there
are many out there that believe that the states should
have the ultimate rights on fighting crime and dealing with illegal.
(06:08):
Immigration if they want to be sanctuary, cities that's what
they should be able to. BE i think that is
incredibly naive and incredibly. Stupid sanctuary cities destroy People's american citizens'.
LIVES i think that's one of the things we should
just straight up start. With not only do they destroy people's,
(06:29):
lives BUT i also think that what The president has
said here is he wants to keep people, safe even
if you're in a liberal, area even if you've voted against.
Him that's important to put that into. Context this is
a president that's sitting in The National guarden to places
Like memphis And chicago And, illinois et. Cetera and why
(06:50):
is he doing? It because he wants to save people's.
Lives that's. It he wants to save people's.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Lives, now story number, two.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
This is what we're witnessing In. PENNSYLVANIA a rapid shift
In pennsylvania's voter registration landscape is added to The Republican
party's long term momentum in. State it's the swing. STATE
a recent data shows a notable weekly game that continues
to chip away at The democratic's. Edge it's been built
over decades in a key battleground. State according to the
(07:23):
newly released, report, Today republicans achieved a net game of twelve,
thousand four hundred and eighty eight voter registrations over The
democrats in a single. Week this game reflects a continuation
of broader momentum for THE gop In, pennsylvania where The
democratic advantage has been steadily shrinking over the past ten.
Years as of, Now democrats do hold a registration lead
(07:47):
of only forty nine, thousand five hundred and fifty eight.
Voters let me give you that in comparison to twenty,
sixteen When trump ran for, president the first, Time democrat
had a lead when it came to registered voters of
almost a million more In pennsylvania nine hundred and sixteen.
(08:09):
Thousand change in twenty, sixteen that numbers now dropped to
forty nine. Thousand now you compare that with the same
period last, Year republicans have netted eighty two, thousand three
hundred and twenty three new registrations over The. Democrats the
surge alshow helped with the recent efforts By democrats to
reactivate dormant voters and left landing. Strongholds it builds on
(08:32):
a longer trend OF gop gains that have significantly altered
the voter registration landscape In. Pennsylvania as. Well, now long
term erosion of The democratic voter registration advantage In pennsylvania
is easily easy to. Document In, august for, Example democrats
lead a drop to just fifty nine, thousand one hundred
(08:53):
and fifty three voters out of the more than eight
point three million registered in the. State that represents one
of the nearest gaps in recent. History the data all
show shows that sends the twenty twenty four election, Cycle
democrats and pay attention to this have lost four hundred
and forty nine thousand registered, voters nearly twice the two
(09:18):
hundred and twenty two thousand loss By. Republicans that results
in a net gain of over two hundred and twenty
seven thousand voters for THE. Gop, now this shift has
occurred in tandem with economic development Under President Donald trump's second. Term,
trump who Carried pennsylvania in twenty twenty four by with
fifty point four percent of the vote Over Democrat Kamala,
(09:40):
harris has since highlighted economic gains in the. State In
december speech you may have sent it the other day
At Mount, pocono the president side the creation of more
than sixty thousand, jobs including four thousand in manufacturing and
nearly one hundred billion in new investments in the. State
(10:03):
if you don't Think Make America Great again is, working
you're not paying.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Attention thank you for listening to the forty Seven Morning
update With Ben. Ferguson please make sure you hit subscribe
wherever you're listening to this podcast right now and for
more in depth, news also subscribe to The Ben ferguson
podcast and we will see you back here On monday.
Morning
How you doing it first lady? Oh, look at you, lady?
Is this the.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Greatest first lady?
Speaker 1 (00:08):
People love our first lady, right, I think? Yeah? Look
at how elegance is the first lady.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Look at you.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Good Saturday morning. It's nice to have you with us
on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got two
big stories for you this morning. The Supreme Court of
the United States of America is keeping Donald Trump from
sending three hundred National Guard troop to Chicago. So what
will the President do next? We'll explain it to you. Also,
the GOP is netted twelve thousand voter registration surge in
(00:41):
Pennsylvania in one week as Democrat lead shrinks over time.
We'll explain it to you. Operation Overlord the d Day Beaches.
You and I share a passion for history, so I
hope you'll join me next spring on the d DA
Beaches in Normandy. That's right, the invasion that sealed Hitler's
Oh Maha and Utah. You're gonna discover the sacred patch
(01:03):
of sand with me. Ten days in Europe, luxury hotels
and fully escorted by America's leading expert on France and
the D Day Invasion. Can chase fifty seven fifty seven
and that includes your airfare. You're gonna stand at General
Patten's grave site by Stone Point Duhal and Mulberry Harbor.
Call my friends at Conservative Tours on your cell phone.
(01:26):
Just dial pound two fifty and say the keyword Conservative Tours,
or go to Conservative Tours dot com an A plus
rating with the BBB all your sight seeing in Paris.
To dial pound two fifty say the keyword Conservative Tours.
You'll have the option to receive a one time auto
dialed text message from my Heart Media. It's the forty
(01:47):
seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Story number one.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Where do we even start now? When it comes to
the victories that the President has given us and how
the media continues to have egg on their face as
they lie and they get it wrong. We also know
that the President of the United States of America has
had to fight other battles. That includes the legal battles
that are coming at him as Democrats will appeal on
(02:14):
anything to the Supreme Court. Now, the Supreme Court has
ruled against President Donald Trump's plan to federalize and send
three hundred Illinois National Guardsmen to the sanctuary city of
Chicago to help protect immigration and Customers enforcement agents from
the violent rioters there. You got to understand, in Chicago
(02:34):
and in Illinois, you've got a hardcore leftist radical governor
and Pritzker who doesn't care that he was the death
capital of America in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
In October, Trumpet sought to deploy the National Guard asss
ICE agents, but a federal judge appointed by former President
Joe Biden blocked the effort with a temporary restraining order.
When the Trump administration asked the US Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit to stay the judges order, the
Penalty Judges denied the administration's plea. That is, when the
(03:05):
Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to stay the federal
judge's order so National guardsmen could be deployed to Chicago. Well,
this week, Scotis ruled in a six' to three decision
that The trump administration court has failed to identify a
source of authority that would allow the military to execute
laws the laws In, illinois and therefore the administration's application
(03:28):
for stay was. Denied now at the preliminary, stage the
government has failed to identify a, source they, say of
authority that would allow the military to execute the laws In.
Illinois The president has not invoked a statue that provides
an exception for. This, instead he relied on inherent constitutional authority,
that according to the, government allows him to use the
(03:50):
military to protect federal personnel and. Property but the government also,
claimed consistent with the long standing view of the executive,
branch that performing such protect to functions does not constitute
executing the laws within the meaning of The. Act if
that is, correct it's hard to see how performing those
functions could constitute executing the laws under one twenty four
(04:14):
h Six dash. Three This court does not lightly assume
That congress silently silently attached attaches different meanings to the
same term in the same term in the same or related. Statutes,
thus at the least in this, posture the government has
not carried its burden to show that the permit that
this permits The president to federalize the guard in the
(04:37):
expos of inherent authority to protect federal personnel and property In.
Illinois we need not and do not address the reviewability
of findings made by The president under one twenty four
oh Six dash three or any other, statue the application
to for stay is. Denied, Now Justice Robert Saidamaior, Kagan Amy,
(05:00):
Cony Barrett Brown. Jackson they all backed the unsigned order
By Justice Brett, kavanaugh who wrote a concurring. Opinion Justice
alito wrote descending, opinion Which Justice thomas joined The Justice
neil gorsa trot ascending opinion as, well saying, this whatever
one may think about the current administration's enforcement of the
(05:22):
immigration laws or the WAY ice has conducted its, operations
the protection of federal officers from potentially lethal attacks should be.
Thwarted alito wrote in these dissenting, OPINION i therefore respectfully.
Dissent now this all goes back to the issue of
if you are dealing with individuals who refuse to abide
(05:46):
by the laws of the land and break the federal,
laws should, you as a, citizen be held hostage in that?
SCENARIO i would argue and say absolutely. Not, now there
are many out there that believe that the states should
have the ultimate rights on fighting crime and dealing with illegal.
(06:08):
Immigration if they want to be sanctuary, cities that's what
they should be able to. BE i think that is
incredibly naive and incredibly. Stupid sanctuary cities destroy People's american citizens'.
LIVES i think that's one of the things we should
just straight up start. With not only do they destroy people's,
(06:29):
lives BUT i also think that what The president has
said here is he wants to keep people, safe even
if you're in a liberal, area even if you've voted against.
Him that's important to put that into. Context this is
a president that's sitting in The National guarden to places
Like memphis And chicago And, illinois et. Cetera and why
(06:50):
is he doing? It because he wants to save people's.
Lives that's. It he wants to save people's.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Lives, now story number, two.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
This is what we're witnessing In. PENNSYLVANIA a rapid shift
In pennsylvania's voter registration landscape is added to The Republican
party's long term momentum in. State it's the swing. STATE
a recent data shows a notable weekly game that continues
to chip away at The democratic's. Edge it's been built
over decades in a key battleground. State according to the
(07:23):
newly released, report, Today republicans achieved a net game of twelve,
thousand four hundred and eighty eight voter registrations over The
democrats in a single. Week this game reflects a continuation
of broader momentum for THE gop In, pennsylvania where The
democratic advantage has been steadily shrinking over the past ten.
Years as of, Now democrats do hold a registration lead
(07:47):
of only forty nine, thousand five hundred and fifty eight.
Voters let me give you that in comparison to twenty,
sixteen When trump ran for, president the first, Time democrat
had a lead when it came to registered voters of
almost a million more In pennsylvania nine hundred and sixteen.
(08:09):
Thousand change in twenty, sixteen that numbers now dropped to
forty nine. Thousand now you compare that with the same
period last, Year republicans have netted eighty two, thousand three
hundred and twenty three new registrations over The. Democrats the
surge alshow helped with the recent efforts By democrats to
reactivate dormant voters and left landing. Strongholds it builds on
(08:32):
a longer trend OF gop gains that have significantly altered
the voter registration landscape In. Pennsylvania as. Well, now long
term erosion of The democratic voter registration advantage In pennsylvania
is easily easy to. Document In, august for, Example democrats
lead a drop to just fifty nine, thousand one hundred
(08:53):
and fifty three voters out of the more than eight
point three million registered in the. State that represents one
of the nearest gaps in recent. History the data all
show shows that sends the twenty twenty four election, Cycle
democrats and pay attention to this have lost four hundred
and forty nine thousand registered, voters nearly twice the two
(09:18):
hundred and twenty two thousand loss By. Republicans that results
in a net gain of over two hundred and twenty
seven thousand voters for THE. Gop, now this shift has
occurred in tandem with economic development Under President Donald trump's second. Term,
trump who Carried pennsylvania in twenty twenty four by with
fifty point four percent of the vote Over Democrat Kamala,
(09:40):
harris has since highlighted economic gains in the. State In
december speech you may have sent it the other day
At Mount, pocono the president side the creation of more
than sixty thousand, jobs including four thousand in manufacturing and
nearly one hundred billion in new investments in the. State
(10:03):
if you don't Think Make America Great again is, working
you're not paying.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Attention thank you for listening to the forty Seven Morning
update With Ben. Ferguson please make sure you hit subscribe
wherever you're listening to this podcast right now and for
more in depth, news also subscribe to The Ben ferguson
podcast and we will see you back here On monday.
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