Carrie Severino – President, Judicial Crisis Network Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, we're hanging on for some important Supreme Court decisions
coming out this month, six twenty three. Now here in
Houston's Parting News, Kerry Sevarino joins as president of the
Judicial Crisis Network. Boy, there's a lot of them to
go over. But if you had to rank them one
through nine, what would be number one on your list?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh? You know, I think maybe this SCURMTI case that's
coming out of Tennessee, and that's going to have a
huge impact. It has to do with Tennessee's law. Other
states have this kind of law as well, protecting miners
who have think they may be transgender but are being
encouraged to do life altering treatments, whether it's hormone blockers
or surgery. And it says you have to wait till

(00:39):
you're at least eighteen, so that if these kids change
their mind, they haven't made a permanent decision. And I
think that's so important because so many states are running
into this issue.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah, could the Supreme Court also say that it would
be okay for miners to have this, but they have
to have parental permission.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's possible that they'll go down that route. That doesn't
seem the direction they were saying. I think the idea
is this is such a long term thing that no
one can say that that's okay for a kid at
that age, just because so many children do change their
minds after a period of confusion. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Absolutely, all right, here's what I would write next on
the list. How about the nationwide injunction birthright citizenship issue.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's huge, Absolutely, that probably should have been number one. No,
that because there are so many issues now that we're
running into with courts for really, just in recent decades,
the first time in American history that the courts have
been blocking not just to parties, but the case. Obviously,
if you go before the court and you have a lawsuit,

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they can have an order that says you can't keep
on doing whatever it is to the other person, you know,
in perpetuity. But to go beyond that and say not
only in this case, not only can the government not
enforce the President's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order as to the
states that are suing, or citizens of those states, or
illegal immigrants in this case, no states, but in the

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entire country. And that really goes pretty far. I think
the court, the justice is we're looking for a way
to have a workable line that they can draw around
that to say, okay, this is when you can and
cannot have an injunction because they want to have a
rule that's going to be applied even handedly. Because we've
seen so much as you know, non even handed court

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application of laws. They want to be able to say, okay,
let's cabin this in so neither side gets the advantage
of these injunctions.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Here's another one I find I find huge. I don't
know if you do. Mexico's lawsuit against gun companies. It
goes back to the age old question who's responsible for
criminal activities with a weapon? Is it the person who's
holding the weapon or is it the company of the
manufacturer of the weapon. And to me, that's a pretty
clear case. But you know, this could decide whether or
not US gun companies even stay in business if they

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become liable for what criminals do, like the cartels in
Mexico for example, with their weapons. If they somehow become
liable for that pretty much puts them out of business,
doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, And this has been a strategy that advocates of
gun control will put it in a nice way. Opponents
of gon ownership have been using this strategy in America
for a long time. It's interesting that they got the
government of Mexico to join in and try to sue
these manufacturers based on oral arguments. I think it's likely
the Supreme Court doesn't let Mexico bring that lawsuit, so

(03:24):
that is a release. But it's still a troubling development
that you've got nations attempting to do this kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
And of course there's many more that we don't have
time to do right now. But I do want to
quickly ask you about this because I've been waiting to
talk to you to ask you about this. The the
Department of Justice seems like they are not willing to
let go of the idea that somebody leaked information from
the Supreme Court on the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade,
And they're not satisfied with the fact that supposedly they

(03:54):
didn't find whoever was responsible. Should they Do you believe that,
first of all, lead the justices know who leaked it,
and if so, do we need to know who leaked it?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Well? I think they have said before they have a
very strong suspicion. But as Justice Leado put it, it's
not enough to convince that person effectively so they have
a good sense. I think the important thing is that
a true investigation is done, and I think there's a
lot of concerns that there was not enough done frankly
where the trail was fresh to figure this out. The

(04:26):
big thing is to make sure people understand this type
of shenanigan is not rewarded, and unfortunately we have seen
other leaks not of that magnitude from the Court. And
I think it's important for everyone working at the Court,
from the justices on down to the clerks on down
to everyone there to realize how important this is. Because
this put justices lives at serious risk and led to

(04:48):
an assassination plot against Justice Kavanaugh. We need to be
protecting our justices, all right.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Ery, good to talk to you. Thank you. President of
the Judicial Crisis Network that is Carrie Sevarino,