The Daily Signal - Astronauts Splashdown, Fed. Judges Violate Constitution | March 19, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. The space X rescue of two U.S. astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut concluded yesterday with a successful splashdown in the Gulf of America. Trump releases the JFK assassination files as federal judges try injunctions, freezes, and stays on pretty much everything. I'm Tony Kinnett from the Daily Signal's Tony Kinnett cast, sicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Wednesday, March 19, 2025. This is the Daily Signal's top news in 10. After nine long months, stranded in space over the International Space Station,

Starting point is 00:01:06 astronauts Sunni Williams and Butch Wilmore, as well as Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, splashed down off the coast of Florida near Tallahassee at 5.57 p.m. Eastern yesterday. And splash down, crew nine, back on Earth. Nick, Alex, Butch, Sunny, on behalf of SpaceX, welcome home. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the four total crew nine members, undocked from the space station at 105 Eastern yesterday, and then headed down for Splashdown just off the coast of Florida on the Gulf of America. Here's a shot of the three NASA astronauts and the one Russian cosmonaut

Starting point is 00:02:00 aboard the SpaceX crew nine mission capsule getting ready for Splashdown. A monumental feat from Elon Musk's SpaceX, who returned, the stranded astronauts to Earth, but a moment that captured the hearts of quite a few was when a pod of dolphins joined those from NASA and the media retrieving the pod from the Gulf of America. You can see the dolphins are splashing around and almost, I can't help it, jumping for joy out of the water at the return of the astronauts and cosmonaut. President Trump concluded his phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday, calling the conversation a very good, good and productive one. He said, we agreed to an immediate ceasefire on all energy and infrastructure

Starting point is 00:02:45 with an understanding that we will be working quickly to have a complete ceasefire and ultimately an end to this horrible war between Russia and Ukraine. This war would have never started if I were president. Many elements of a contract for peace were discussed, including the fact that thousands of soldiers are being killed. Both President Putin and President Zelensky would like to see it end. That process is now in full force and effect, and we will hopefully, for the sake of humanity. get the job done. President Trump also directed the release of previously classified documents

Starting point is 00:03:15 concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the National Archives made over 80,000 pages of records which include no redactions, none of that black marker lines that you and I are quite familiar to when it comes to unclassified documents to the American public and the world today via archives.gov slash JFK.

Starting point is 00:03:37 Now, I know that many of you out there curious to dig through these documents yourselves or that perhaps someone that you trust might dig through these documents. I can assure you that I have not been able to read all 80,000 pages of the documents yet, but we're making sure that we dig through a lot of those so that we can bring you more on what's inside them later on in the Tony Kennett cast. It's a day ending in why, which means more federal judges issuing a series of injunctions against actions from the Trump administration. Yesterday, a D.C. judge ordered a preliminary injunction in favor of a trans activist in the United States military who sued the U.S. over President Trump's

Starting point is 00:04:15 executive order banning individuals suffering from gender dysphoria from serving actively in the military due to mental instability. Judge Anna C. Rays ordered the U.S. military to go back to its Biden-era policy. Of note, Judge Rays was nominated to the position by President Biden in 2023 as the first immigrant who identifies as LGBT plus as a federal district judge. Another district judge, Theodore Schwong, appointed by the Obama administration, ordered that the Department of Government Efficiency under Elon Musk must fully reinstate U.S.AID. That's the U.S. Agency for International Development after he claims that Doge dismantled it, which is not correct.

Starting point is 00:05:04 the Department of Government Efficiency makes recommendations for cuts under the authority of the president. The judge's conclusion reads, for the foregoing reasons, the court finds the defendant's actions taken to shut down USAID on an accelerated basis, including its apparent decision to permanently close USAID headquarters without the approval of a duly appointed USAID officer, likely violated the U.S. Constitution in multiple ways, and that these actions harmed not only plaintiffs, but also the public interest, because they just, because they deprived the public's elected representatives in Congress of their constitutional authority to decide whether when and how to close down an agency created by Congress. It should be noted, again, that USAID was not shut down completely, but moved under the

Starting point is 00:05:50 Secretary of State in the State Department. Look at the fraud that we've caught. We've caught so much fraud, so much waste, so many employees that never showed up to work, and we have a judge from a very liberal state who ruled like that. So I guess they closed the department. They're going to have to reopen the department. Well, we'll be appealing it, I guess. Not I guess. I guarantee you. We will be appealing it. We have rogue judges that are destroying our country. Judge Chania Chutkin has also attempted to block Trump EPA administrator Lee Zeldin from reallocating funds for canceled Biden-era climate grants. There is not any constitutional provision which states that judges have the authority to allocate monies in the executive branch to particular purposes. We sat down with Gabrielle Hoffman from the Independent Women's Forum Center for Energy and Conservation to talk a little bit about Lee Zeldon's plan to deregulate the EPA and ensure that energy production in the United States rockets forward.

Starting point is 00:06:53 Check it out. I won't go into detail for every 31 different types of proposals, but I think top items, top items, priorities. I think the biggest one, most consequential policy change will be the revisiting of the 2009 endangerment finding, which basically labeled carbon, an essential element, of course, as a pollutant. And that really will dismantle all the climate alarmism, all the net zero policies from which this is derived from. So this is perhaps the most consequential of all the 30 plus proposals. And that way we can have some normalcy brought back, because what, carbon is only 1.4% of the atmosphere. So a lot of heightened fears, and it's also essential plant food. We need it. It's essential for

Starting point is 00:07:32 living and existing. Carbon isn't bad. And, you know, for the longest time, radical environments have wanted to get rid of carbon. And so now that we have the EPA kind of restoring some normalcy here, revisiting this for possibly nixing it, I think that's a good first step from which you can see other reforms flow. In response to Trump's criticism of Chief Judge James Boasberg and Obama appointed federal judge in Washington, D.C., which tried to freeze the Trump administration's removal of the Venezuelan and Mexican gang members to El Salvador over the weekend. Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court issued a statement saying, quote, For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response

Starting point is 00:08:15 to a disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose. It should be noted that the court in question did not issue, a judicial decision. So the criticism here from Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't exactly fit the circumstances applied. Representative Brandon Gill of Texas 26th Congressional District has filed articles of impeachment against Judge James Boasberg saying, quote, he is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office. My response is that this is broad and unconstitutional judicial overreach from a circuit court judge who is attempting to,

Starting point is 00:08:55 essentially conduct the foreign policy of the United States from the local judge bench in D.C. That is wrong. And if he wants to allow the courts to continue having the legitimacy that they have had for 200 years, he needs to get his courts in line. We have a constitutional power in the legislature that is non-judicable to impeach rogue judges. That's exactly what we're doing here. And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made things arguably worse for him. his party today by going on the view and claiming that Americans who weren't particular fans of taxation were greedy. And you know what their attitude is? I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money for me? I don't want to pay taxes. Or I built my company with my

Starting point is 00:09:42 bare hands. How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, my land and water that I own or my employees. They hate government. Government's a barrier to people. The barrier to stop them from doing things. They want to destroy it. We are not letting them do it and we're united. Before you go, check the description below to make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kinnett cast, where later this evening, we'll be taking a look at an interesting ice arrest of some Tren de Aragua gang members, as well as the response from the Trump administration

Starting point is 00:10:17 to what is very likely to be a very interesting series of Supreme Court cases. I'm Tony Kinnett, and this has been The Daily Signals. top news in 10. Take care.

The Daily Signal - Astronauts Splashdown, Fed. Judges Violate Constitution | March 19, 2025

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