{"id":225719,"date":"2017-03-16T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=225719"},"modified":"2017-03-17T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:37:14","slug":"trump-should-ignore-the-court-and-just-start-vetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/16\/trump-should-ignore-the-court-and-just-start-vetting\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Trump Ignore the Court and Just Start Vetting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Joel in Morristown, New Jersey. Joel, you\u2019re up first. It\u2019s great to have you on the program today, sir. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: How are you, Rush? You had asked a question before —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what? Wait. Let me answer. I am ticked! I am ticked off like you can\u2019t believe, and I\u2019m trying to keep it with measured tones here, but I\u2019m livid.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Well, perhaps I can help you feel better. You had asked a question that was not rhetorical, namely if the right approach for President Trump is to appeal the overturning of his proposed ban to the Supreme Court. I actually believe there\u2019s a superior solution and that is for the president to rewrite the ban so that it is a ban of individual immigration from all countries to the United States. By so doing, three objectives would be achieved. First, it would force the left to realize that they can\u2019t overturn it in the courts as being discriminatory against Muslims because most of the people from other nations are not Muslims.<\/p>\n

Secondly, it will force them to sue — to come to the table, that is — in order to propose a compromise alternative, because they don\u2019t want to see… Especially the corporatists who want cheap labor as well as the left that wants to see others come to this country who are less educated and will go on the dole to vote Democrat, they don\u2019t want to see a total ban. They have a vested interest in insuring that that does not happen. Third, it will show that President Trump is understanding the need to double down, that the best approach is what Roy Cohn had suggested to him years ago, which is: If someone hits you, hit back twice as hard.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Let me… You launched into this, and I want to go back and explain to people what it is that you are bouncing off of me. I said in a throwaway comment — although I meant it. But I was vamping \u2019til the end of the segment. I was heading up to the ear-splitting tone signifying a new commercial break. I was talking about Trump has said he was gonna appeal this all the way to the Supreme Court, and I said, “I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the way to deal with this.” I mean, why do you keep going back to the people that keep slamming you? Why do you keep doing it? So now we got the call from Joel here who says the remedy is to rewrite this so that you ban any potential jihadist from every country in the world including the Caribbean superpower of Belize.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right? You would include them in this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely so.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: All right. So let\u2019s go to the statute that enables the executive order. The statute gives the president full and total power to ban people from anywhere who he believes constitute a threat. It\u2019s his by proclamation; he can sustain the ban for whatever length of time. Are you at all worried that an executive order that would apply a vetting test to all immigrants from every country in the world…? You think that would pass muster?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I feel it would have to because the basis on which they are in the court, ruling against the president, is that he\u2019s looking to be discriminatory against individuals because of their religious preference. What this —<\/p>\n

RUSH: This judge in Hawaii… Pardon me, this judge in Hawaii would simply say that he knows there are Muslims in every country that the president has signified —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, actually —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a minute, though.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n

RUSH: He would still hearken back to what he heard Trump say, and then he would use his power as a judge to issue a TRO, no matter what. That\u2019s the point. This judge is not basing this on the law. He\u2019s not basing this on the executive order itself.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I fully agree with you. However, I think there are two points that should be kept in mind. The first is, certain of the countries in the world do not have any Muslims. For example, Japan, which basically looks to ensure that folks are —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, not that we know of.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not that we know of. But secondly, because the president would be able to argue he agrees with the court that he doesn\u2019t know if the people who wish America poorly are related to a specific religion. He would be able to flip on the head their own logic, and if the court again upheld a ban — if it were revisited in the Ninth Circuit or elsewhere — then I think the president would have such a strong argument before the Supreme Court, that even as leftist as they are, it would not be possible for anyone to overturn it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pshhh! That\u2019s… See, when you say it would not be possible? When there is a liberal anywhere, it is possible.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I\u2019m not gonna argue with you about your legal strategy here and the effort to thwart these hack judges. I mean, it sounds reasonable to me on first glance. You know me; I want to think about it more, run it by some people and see if it\u2019s practical, applicable, or if it\u2019s just interesting theory. Don\u2019t be insulted by that, please. These are things I have to do as a responsibility I have to the audience.<\/p>\n

But what bothers me about this, Joel, is it\u2019s the legal system where the silent coup is taking place that is thwarting Trump here, in this instance, and they\u2019re gonna be able to shop and find a judge like this for any EO he comes up with. And they\u2019re gonna find a judge that\u2019ll issue a TRO — whether it\u2019s legal, relevant, or not — because these people are political, not legal. If we don\u2019t fight \u2019em on political turf, we\u2019re gonna have this continue to happen.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You might remember a federal judge ruled that Obama\u2019s moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico was unconstitutional. Obama just ignored the guy. He just ignored the guy and kept the ban on drilling, and nobody did anything. Why doesn\u2019t Trump try something like that? Just start vetting.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT\"\"<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Zoe in Champaign, Illinois. Great to have you here. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m fine, Rush. I\u2019m so excited. I don\u2019t know whether I\u2019m more excited, frustrated, irritated, or what, but I\u2019ve tried to call your show for years. I happen to be blind. And then I tried to call when you were giving away the iPhones, but I have something that\u2019s even bigger. And it\u2019s that I\u2019m upset about our Constitution. People who are overseas foreigners — despite what the internationalist law crowd thinks — do not have rights under our Constitution, at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I\u2019m really irritated about this, because this isn\u2019t being talked about enough.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you… I\u2019m irritated by all of it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes!<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I found out that I am being criticized recently as a phony conservative —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ugh!<\/p>\n

RUSH: — because I have become too focused and too anti-left.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) How\u2019s that possible?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Can you believe that? (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I don\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That means I\u2019m not a good conservative.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know what I think? I think it means you\u2019re effective.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m too anti-left. Ah, but the point is all of this stuff frustrates me and ticks me off, from a strategic point, okay?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. We\u2019ve gotta have answers for this stuff, like when a judge goes rogue like this, or when the deep state starts running a silent coup.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We find ourselves in much the same situation. We\u2019ve gone out and voted. We\u2019ve overcome the left in the presidential election and the shock and the surprise. And still there doesn\u2019t seem to be a way to stop them, because they\u2019re willing to behave outside the Constitution as Obama demonstrated and these judges are demonstrating.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And there\u2019s no outrage at that!<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: No. Would I be really out of line to say I think that Trump should defy this order?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know, but you see the problem with that is there is this important thing called the rule of law, and even though they are abandoning the rule of law and flouting it, I don\u2019t know that the remedy is for lawlessness. In fact, I know that that\u2019s not the remedy. That\u2019s a barrier you don\u2019t want to cross. If you win by violating the rule of law, why ever pay attention to the rule of law again? So it\u2019s a slippery slope to go down, but I understand the temptation.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Greg in Sloatsburg, New York.\u00a0 Great to have you with us, sir.\u00a0 How you doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Very good, Rush.\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0 It\u2019s an honor and dittos. \u00a0Rush, if refugees without a green card or a visa have a constitutional right to come to the U.S., what other constitutional rights do they have, such as the Second Amendment right?<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 It\u2019s an interesting question.\u00a0 That is a fascinatingly interesting — let me tell you why that question matters.\u00a0 The first executive order also prevented green card holders from getting into the country if they didn\u2019t get back in before the 90 day ban took place, and green card holders are almost required to be here, folks.\u00a0 It\u2019s part of the process of getting a green card.\u00a0 You\u2019re required to be here.\u00a0 It\u2019s not citizenship, but it\u2019s close.\u00a0 But without a green card, you are not a citizen and yet these judges, like this guy in Hawaii, are all treating them like they are and that the Constitution applies to them. So that when Trump says he wants to ban Muslims he can\u2019t because they have constitutional protection.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s a great question.\u00a0 If they are not citizens and they are afforded protection by say the First Amendment establishment clause, could they come into the country with a gun and claim the Constitution guarantees them one even though they\u2019re not a citizen?\u00a0 Now, you know what the left would do, they\u2019d take the gun away and send \u2019em to retraining somewhere, reeducation center.\u00a0 The left would not go for that.\u00a0 Depends on what they like in the Constitution and don\u2019t.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great theoretical question to make the point.\u00a0 I applaud you for that.\u00a0 That\u2019s really good thinking out there, Greg.<\/p>\n

CALLER:\u00a0 Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH:\u00a0 You bet.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great way to illustrate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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