The Daily Signal - DNC Sues Itself & Judges Subvert U.S. Constitution | April 25, 2025

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Democratic National Committee faces a major lawsuit as the Chair and vice chair spar. Federal District judges in D.C. and New Hampshire overstep their constitutional authority, and a New Mexico judge is rated after suspicion of harboring Trende Aragua members. I'm Tony Kinnett from the Daily Signals Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Friday, April 25, 2025. This is the Daily Signal's top news in 10. The Democratic National Committee is in serious turmoil and not because of fighting with the Republican Party. Chair Ken Martin and Vice Chair David Hogg are in a heated sparring match over whether to endorse incumbents, to endorse those fighting the incumbents, or to stay out of primary contests all together.

Starting point is 00:00:50 Ken Martin slapped back at David Hogg, who had previously announced he would be giving $20 million to a pack focused on unseeing, Democratic incumbents. Let me be unequivocal. No DNC officers should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election, whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger. If you want to challenge incumbents, you're more than free to do that, but just not as an officer of the DNC, because our job is to be neutral arbiters.

Starting point is 00:01:19 We can't be both the referee and also the player at the same time. Believe it or not, that's the lesser of the two stories involved. involving the DNC at present. We were able to sit down with Chip Rogers from Americans for Fair Treatment, representing a group of disgruntled workers in the DNC who were fired in mass without any kind of notice, without any severance pay, violating the union agreements that the DNC had previously set up. Check it out.

Starting point is 00:01:49 Well, we've got to go back a little bit in time. You know, the DNC forever has been pestering and criticizing and going after private sector employees. private sector employers over union issues and, you know, supporting all sorts of lawsuits and things that really pester and hamper these, these private sector companies, even when they face tough economic times and they have to let some employees go. The only reason that you're not, you know, setting up a union in your small cake shop is because you hate your laborers. You want to treat them like slaves, all that, that classic D&C line. I've heard it at times. That's the nonsense that they've been peddling for quite some time.

Starting point is 00:02:25 But now they face a situation themselves where they did exactly the same thing. In fact, even worse than most private sector employers. Oh, do you share. Yes, here's the situation. A couple of years ago, the employees at the Democratic National Committee decided that they wanted to unionize. And of course, the DNC supported this idea, at least publicly. Well, after having a record-breaking last couple of years leading up to the elections, they decided to fire almost all of those employees and give them one day notice with no severance whatsoever.

Starting point is 00:03:01 Now, had the private sector industry, anyone in private sector industry had they done this, labor unions, the DNC would have been going after them. But now the DNC has done it to their own union members. So what you're saying is the DNC played stupid games and they might be about to win a very stupid prize. Is that about, is that about right? Well, look, the reality is this, is they had to face the economics of losing a national election. And when that happens, when you run an election, you lose, some of the resources begin to dry up. They looked at that and realized, we can't have all these people employed because we're kind of going under. And so what they did is they just got rid of all

Starting point is 00:03:45 of them. Now, that's understandable in any real world situation. But because the laws are the way the laws are, you've got to give them notice. You've got to jump through a lot of hoop. that have been put in place for employers and the DNC being as hypocritical as they could be, didn't do any of that. Again, one day notice, no severance. So we're in a situation in which the party that said, this is really good for the goose. Everybody, we've got to get this out there. This is something really good for the goose.

Starting point is 00:04:15 Unionization, we've got to have all of these rules and policies so that you can't, you know, fire anyone. You got to, like, give them all this advance notice and you got to maybe in some states reasonable, like, cause and severance and all this other stuff. But then when it's time for the gander, also to receive the same treatment, well, all of the say, hey, hey, hey, wait a minute, I mean, we lost an election. What more do you want? Well, that would be to follow the rules that you pushed for, for as you said, decades and

Starting point is 00:04:41 decades. Exactly. And they're facing the reality that businesses all across this country face in tough economic times. And that is, when you run out of money and you can't pay employees, what do you do? I mean, we never want to get in that situation, but it does occur from time. Meanwhile, a series of decisions from U.S. district court judges directly subvert aspects of the U.S. Constitution and how certain powers and the prosecution of those powers are delegated to various

Starting point is 00:05:08 branches of the government. In a 120-page opinion, U.S. district judge Colleen Collar Cotelli, a Clinton appointee in Washington, D.C., blocked the Trump administration from enforcing federal election law by requiring citizenship and proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. She also barred the Election Assistance Commission from withholding federal funding from states that did not comply with the order. In her decision when she finally got around to it, she said, quote, our Constitution entrusts Congress and the states, not the president, with the authority to regulate federal elections. No statutory delegation of authority to the executive branch permits the president to short circuit Congress's deliberative process by executive

Starting point is 00:05:52 order. There's just one problem. The federal election system is indeed a series of laws set up by the Congress of the United States, but it is the executive branch of government which decides how to prosecute the enforcement of those laws. This is in fact what is meant by prosecutorial discretion. So yes, Congress has set forth a series of laws which state that you must be a citizen of the United States in order to register for or participate in the federal election cycles. but it is up to the executive branch of the federal government to decide how to prosecute federal law in all 50 states and U.S. territories. Collar-Cateli has no constitutional authority to decide whether or not the president of the United States is allowed to enforce certain federal laws. Another judge, Landia McAfrity, an Obama appointed judge in the district up in New Hampshire,

Starting point is 00:06:46 issued an order blocking the Trump administration from cutting funding to public schools that promote the racially and gender discriminatory practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Nothing in the congressional budget rules, laws, or regulations suggests that the executive branch of government does not have the authority to decide how the Department of Education, which serves at the pleasure of the President of the United States, spends its monies towards Americans' public schools. Unless there is specific text in the last budget or continuing resolution, which orders the Department of Education to spend money specifically for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, programs which already violate aspects of the civil rights and title laws, then the executive

Starting point is 00:07:32 branch of government can spend those monies however at once. It can spend all of the money on physical education or music classes if it's so desired. It is likely in both of these cases that we will see this added to the slate of judicial authority questions that are brought before the Supreme Court, I would guess, by the end of this year. And lastly, a wild story out of New Mexico. FBI agents raided the home of a former New Mexico Democrat judge, and I do mean very recently former. He resigned on the 18th of April. Former judge Jose Joel Kano reportedly submitted a letter of resignation back in March, but he was arrested by the FBI, along with his wife, for allegedly harboring several members of Venezuela's Trende Aragua gang, which has designated a terror

Starting point is 00:08:23 organization by the State Department and therefore the United States. In February, Venezuelan National and member of Trenda Aragua Christian Ortega Lopez was arrested at a Las Cruces residence owned by the former Judge Kano following an anonymous tip. Ortega Lopez had been residing in New Mexico after reportedly being apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol in December 2023 at Eagle Pass following illegal entry into the country by scaling a barbed wire fence. Despite the arrest, he was released just three days later due to overcrowding in detention facilities and the policies of the Biden administration. He was charged this year via criminal complaint with unlawfully possessing a firearm or ammunition as an illegal alien. The New Mexico Supreme Court has barred Judge

Starting point is 00:09:08 Kano from participating in law anywhere in the state of New Mexico. All of his law licenses have been revoked. And as of yesterday evening, he has been taken into custody by the FBI along with his wife for harboring at least one Trende Aragua gang member inside his home. Before you go, head down to the description and make sure you're subscribed to the Tony Kinnettcast. And if you have the spare time, leave us a review on Apple Podcast. That really helps us out. Join us tonight at 7 p.m. where we tackle.

Starting point is 00:09:38 a little bit more along the Harvard, the Princeton, the Yale drama, as well as an update on how Congress is, or rather isn't, addressing the spending problem in the massive debt of the United States. I'm Tony Kinnett, and this has been The Daily Signals. Top News in 10. Take care.

The Daily Signal - DNC Sues Itself & Judges Subvert U.S. Constitution | April 25, 2025

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