BREAKING: Comey Faces Major Prosecutor Subpoena

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Will and I are. Or are are you know what? Let's just be honest with people.

Okay, look, there's a lot of news going on, but sometimes there's not a lot of news.

Sometimes we've got to come up with what we're going to talk about. This one is another interesting one because, you know, when you put a James Comey in the title. You may go, Logan, is it 2016 again? Are you learning a tape on Friday? Did you find a tape from 10 years ago now?

Yeah.

Well, we actually are talking about something that did happen. close to 10 years ago at this point now because James Comey has been subpoenaed in what they're considering the grand conspiracy, is what Tulsi Gabbard even referred to, I believe, as. That's right. The grand conspiracy. The case against ex-officials who investigated and prosecuted President Trump, of course, saying that they were trying to stop the election back in 2016.

And I guess we have updates on that because we have new people in charge. Where are we at, Will? That's right. So, as you remember, when Tulsi Gabbard became the Director of National Intelligence, she did start looking at the work product of the intelligence community. That is part of what is her purview.

There are 19 intelligence agencies that are under the purview of the Director of National Intelligence. And she released a lot of findings about the way that they abused the system. And changed the rules and made up things, included things that previously they had discredited. In order To try and frame President Trump, who had then been elected at that point. And say he was a part of a Russia collusion conspiracy, which ended up being the Russia collusion hoax.

We've been through all that. She referred to it, though, as this grand conspiracy within different intelligence agencies with James Comey, with James Clapper, with John Brennan. Even the President of the United States at the time, Barack Obama, was caught up in this as well.

So now we know that a federal prosecutor has impaneled a grand jury in Florida. And is looking into this, conducting this investigation, presenting evidence before a grand jury about this grand conspiracy probe. In what the end game of a prosecutor would be to seek indictments of individuals. What we now know. is that a subpoena has been issued To James Comey to testify before this grand jury, and we will see where that goes.

But it also tells me that the higher name players, the bigger players, are now being subpoenaed to come give this testimony. That it is probably getting close to the time where the prosecutor would try to get the indictment returned by a grand jury. That's right. And phone lines are open. We'll even break down a little bit later what it means because there are some, you know, moments here of whether this is in a statute of limitations, where we at.

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So, a lot of you are probably tuning in right now going, What is this with James Comey? James Comey has been subpoenaed. Why? And why now? And how is it okay that it's actually almost a decade later that they can still do this?

Let's start with what is it, Will? Why is it happening? Why does it matter? Do we need to look into this at all? That's right.

So last year, a U.S. prosecutor, U.S. attorney, had sought a grand jury to be impaneled in Florida, which the judge complied with and granted that, and went To investigate this grand conspiracy that Tulsi Gabbard and Director John Ratcliffe of the CIA had both talked about, where it wasn't just instances of them trying to weaponize the government and the intelligence community against the President-elect. It was this grand conspiracy, is the name that she gave to it. And when you look at this, The prosecutor has been working now since last year and has subpoenaed more than 130 or issued more than 130 subpoenas since that grand jury was impaneled.

This investigation isn't at the beginning. But now you're seeing that the former FBI director James Comey himself. Is being subpoenaed in this investigation. To me, that looks like they, you know, you do all the grunt work. You start with probably the lowest players in this, or people that may have information, and you build up.

And then you've got your narrative before the grand jury. And then you're going to have the people that you're probably seeking an indictment against: both James Comey, James Clapper, John Brennan. Those are the ones that remember, John Brennan said. I know that the dossier, we don't think it's true, but doesn't it ring true? You know, those are the types of things that are going to potentially get them in trouble.

How could we freak out? Was the way they weaponize the intelligence against the person who had just been elected by the American people? When you get to that point, they start subpoenaing the players that are probably the target of the investigation, you almost infer that they are getting close to. Asking for charges to be returned from the grand jury, that they are getting near the end of the investigation stage and potentially going towards an indictment. I want to bring that up because this is not some willy-nilly thing that just happened.

Tulsi Gabbert was talking about this almost a year ago at this point, last July. Was discussing this with reporters during a White House presser. I think we should flash back. Let's hear from it. This is our friend, former colleague, Tulsi Gabbert.

Based on what you now see. Do you believe President Obama is guilty of treason? I'm leaving the criminal charges to the Department of Justice. I am not an attorney, but as I've said previously, when you look at the intent behind creating a fake manufactured intelligence document that directly contradicts multiple assessments that were created by the intelligence community. The expressed intent and what followed afterward can only be described as a years-long coup and a treasonous conspiracy against the American people, our republic, and an attempt to undermine President Trump's administration.

And remember, Logan, that is the Director of National Intelligence. Back in July.

So, again. Right. Nearly a year ago.

So people start pushing narratives going, well, they're only doing this right now to distract what's going on. This is clearly, as you said, a late-stage process of this. Right. And after she presented this information, there were also criminal referrals that were given over from John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, to the Department of Justice. And the Department of Justice started working on that almost a year ago.

We always talk about sometimes the wheels of justice turn very slowly. We talk about with some of our cases how it takes years to get the resolution finally, and sometimes it goes all the way to Supreme Court. That when they are doing an investigation and trying to do it the right way. In order to secure an indictment if they believe that there's been a violation of the law, you don't want it to be rushed. And I would also point to some of the charges against James Comey that were dropped.

uh in the northern district of Virginia. Were because it was kind of rushed. They were up against a timeline with the statute of limitations and rushed to get it done, and that judge threw them out. I feel like the U.S. attorney in Florida is wanting to do this in such a way.

That it is, if there are indictments, charges to be brought here, it is not going to be just thrown out because it was rushed. It's going through a process.

Now, this conspiracy angle that both Tulsi Gabbard brought up, but then also the way that it's being described by the media. If that is what the U.S. Attorney is doing, now remember, grand jury proceedings are secret. We won't know what is said in that. We don't know and should not know.

Those are secret for a reason. But if that is the angle they are going for, a conspiracy. That is where the time Timeline of the statute of limitations shifts. Because if you have an individual crime, then the crime itself, there's normally about a five-year statute of limitations. If you can tie it back, some things have different things, different extended, but typically one of these, if it was just an individual action, would be like a five-year statute of limitations.

2016, way beyond that. 10 years. The difference is that with a conspiracy charge, If the individuals guilty of that conspiracy or alleged to be guilty of that are continuing the conspiracy, they haven't given it up. Yeah, they're tied to it. And when you hear from these individuals, they still repeat the same lines from that time, then that conspiracy can be looked at by the US law and courts and prosecutors as an ongoing conspiracy.

The point of the 2016 election may be well over, but the continuance of that to still hold the line on their narrative that they weaponize the government for can extend that. And even some reporters point back to some testimony that even in 2023, that James Comey had given. That would be in line with the original conspiracy that they are alleging that could also extend it.

So there's a lot of wiggle room, so to speak, when it becomes a conspiracy. Yeah, absolutely. And I want to hear from you about this. We do have some calls coming out on some unrelated topics. We'll get to those coming up.

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When you talk about future Presidents, future Presidents of the United States. And of course, yesterday we spent a good portion of our show talking about Gavin Newsom and the Newsom family as an unearthed clip of his wife really going after directly by name evangelical conservative Christians. Was played over and over and over again by us and by a lot of outlets that wanted to share this is what we're talking about from the state of California. And in response to that, also, the ACLJ has been hard at work. In a battle with the state of California, they have fought.

to claim Over a million dollars. In fines that they had levied against Calvary Chapel of San Jose.

Now, a lot of these came during COVID times, the early days of COVID, when we were unsure. Everyone was unsure what was going on.

Now We are quite a bit removed. We are six years removed. From the original, you know, probably about this week. Yeah.

about six years ago from the pandemic. of the first week when everything shut down. We know the impact that happened. Of course, we know so much more now, six years later. And now we have gotten some official responses.

Yesterday was the official day to hear from California, and we're going to have our ACLJ attorney, Nathan, joining us in the next segment to break down the update coming out of California. Because look, As much as you want to discount what happens in California or New York or any of these places, like we got a lot of listeners there, we got a lot of supporters there. But I know I see some of the comments coming in saying, Why do I care? Because these big metropolitan areas, these big states, California, you know, where there's a lot of people. often impact what happens around the country.

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So, we would love to hear from you at 1-800-684-3110. Go ahead and get on hold. Yesterday was a big day for the ACLJ, of course, in our fight for Calvary Chapel, San Jose versus the state of California. If you want to know what side we're on, I feel like you probably could figure it out. Of course, we are on the side of Calvary Chapel.

And one of our attorneys, Nathan, is joining us right now, Will. But I want you to give a little bit of a setup here because the response came in. Yesterday was a big deadline. Right. And I know we talked a little bit on the air, but maybe we can give people a bit of a setup before we get to Nathan.

That's right. Remember, we filed our CERT petition. That's the petition asking the Supreme Court to take up this case back in December of 2025.

So right at the end of the year. And then that automatically triggers a clock for the state to respond. The original response due date for California was January 16th of this year. They filed a motion to ask for an extension, not unusual that happens, especially at that level at the Supreme Court, to move that, and it was granted to move it to February 17th.

So then we were waiting mid-February for a response from the state of California. And lo and behold, they ask for another extension. This is where it gets into a little bit of uncharted territory asking for a second extension. But the state did grant, the Supreme Court rather, did grant this second extension to push that response deadline to yesterday, March 19th. And Nathan, we got the response from the state yesterday late in the afternoon.

There, you see it on the screen. That is their brief. They filed to the Supreme Court. And what this purpose of their response, because it is at this cert petition stage, we are asking the court to take this up. Their entire goal here is to tell the Supreme Court and ask them, say, you don't need to deal with this.

Don't waste your time here. Just rely on what the other, the state courts in this case looked at. And let's just move on. What's kind of your breakdown of the response from California?

So it's really interesting what they do in this brief. And I'm not sure it's very consistent with the fact that they took this long to write it. Because rather than arguing that the state court got it right, Instead, they try to argue that this case isn't worth the Supreme Court's attention. What they try to do is essentially say, well, COVID was a long time ago. It doesn't still matter.

Why would we think That a case about COVID fines would still have implications for religious liberty today. That's their main argumentative tactic. And of course, as we all know, that's just not consistent with the ongoing trends we see from the left. The battle has not stopped since COVID-19. With restrictions over churches and whether they can meet and when they can meet, the battle just keeps going every single day.

Yeah, Nathan, it feels like if that was the case, then drop the fines. You know, i if they decided that it was no longer uh of value to them and it didn't matter anymore, well, there's a simple solution to that in many ways. Exactly right. Exactly right. And I think it's particularly striking.

Because this is the argument they have to make. First they argue that the case doesn't matter, but then of course they have to say, well, The case doesn't matter, but these fines were justified. And so they try still relying on that same logic that we heard five or six years ago. They still try to blame churches for the spread of COVID. and blame churches for allowing people to mean as if that somehow caused the spread of disease.

So they continue with the exact same arguments they've always been making. And now they're making them to the Supreme Court.

Well, and I also feel like some of these arguments in here are that, you know, it happened. But it's so unlikely that we're going to have another century, once in a century pandemic that forces us to put these rules back in place. Their focus here, and what I found interesting, is on the restrictions themselves and not even that they are still forcing this fine.

Now, I understand that is the root of all of this, but when I read their brief, about 28 pages, saw nothing really about the issue of even still holding these fines against them and the precedent that could set, because they're trying to argue this isn't even precedential. Like in the state, we're not even going to use these fines against someone else later because this happened here. And that's another way they're trying to say it's not worth the Supreme Court's time. Exactly, but the fundamental reality is that fines like this have a huge effect. Not just on our client and its offerings and ties that are being trying to take by the state.

but have this effect on every other church in California too. I love all our work, but this case is particularly personal to me. My dad's a pastor, and he ministered in a church in California during COVID-19. And what every church in California saw was these draconian orders. Right, and so these fines are just this last attempt to still wring one more thing out of churches.

What we pointed out in our CERT petition. The Supreme Court had to multiple times over and over again issue real rulings that California courts were getting up wrong, that the California government was getting up wrong with its COVID orders. And so this is really just the next case in a long line of cases that the ACLJ was involved in from the start: California going after churches, punishing churches. Just because they were seeking to worship freely in accord with their conscience.

Now, Nathan, this was obviously their brief in opposition to our CERT petition. Will we have another brief in responding to their opposition? And what are kind of the next steps here as we await what hopefully is a grant order from the Supreme Court? Yeah, so our reply brief is due April 2nd.

So we have. A little under two weeks to get our briefing to the Supreme Court. And unlike California, we don't plan to ask for extra time. Rather, we're seeking to get this before the Supreme Court as soon as we can. To urge the Supreme Court to take the case.

And so once our brief is submitted, at that point, we'll be waiting to see what the court may do.

Sometimes That can take a rather long time.

Sometimes it might happen more quickly. And really, the next question is going to be: will the Supreme Court take this case on the merits? And protect religious freedom in California once and for all.

So that's what we'll be watching for after April 2nd. All right, we'll keep an update on that. Look, this is a continual struggle with California. We want to be there to support our friends. Our allies, Christians in California, people that want to practice their faith openly, loudly.

And when we know the governor himself is not too big of a fan of that, and specifically, we know the governor's family is not too big of a fan of that. And maybe we could even flash back to remember: this is what was unearthed yesterday from just a couple years ago. But yeah, kind of while all this was happening, this is the governor's wife, Jennifer Newsom. But again, the folks on the far right, they're missing is just this, they're living in this silo, this evangelical conservative silo that ultimately is, it's just pulling us back as a country to a time and a place where we don't deserve to be and we're not going to be because. Honestly, young women and fathers of daughters are awake now and they're woke and they're not going to let us go back.

And so I have so much hope because of that. And obviously, California has a huge responsibility to lead. Of course. And we want to actually be there for you, the Californians who are listening right now, who are evangelical Christians, who maybe are stuck in that silo. of evangelical Christianity.

And of course, we want to be there for everyone around the country and around the world as well. But when you're being called out specifically, that is why we are representing Calvary Chapel. That is why. We keep, you know, we have people like Rick Rinnell who have joined us on the broadcast in California. That's why we have Jeff Balabon, Israel, New York.

These areas where we know there's a lot of you out there who support similar thoughts, beliefs, and values. But maybe you're not heard. Because the government of the state And he decides to belittle you. We're not going to stand for that. We're going to stand up for you, but only happens.

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I'd love to hear from you. They're completely open. I'll be honest, there's a lot of you watching right now, but not a lot of you calling. Money 100-684-31-10 will restate what we're discussing here. Off the top here, of course, this has to do with James Comey being subpoenaed.

But we're also going to move on and discuss a bit of what's going on as Iran has threatened a worldwide. Threat to tourism and tourist sites, what that's going to mean for the future. And of course, as we know, there are historic issues right now. With The TSA? With the Department of Homeland Security due to the shutdown.

That is keeping things really delayed. You have a city like Atlanta, which has been one of the top airports in the country. The opposing lines Of two to three to four hours just to get through security right now. Um This is not a fun time to be traveling. Plus you add on.

That now they're issuing these threats. What's that going to look like leading up? We want to hear you from you at 1-800-684-3110 all about it. Once again, at 1-800-684-3110, as we again begin to wrap up our Double Your Impact Drive, I want you to be a part of it as well. As you got to support the work of the ACLJ, as our team is hard at work, and again, all donations are matched right now, which is amazing.

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But that really helps us out, helps us set a great baseline for the organization. It helps us move forward. But let's reset a little bit here, Will. That's right. We started this broadcast today talking about the subpoena that was issued to James Comey, and this comes out of an investigation that is centered in Florida.

where a U. S. attorney is looking into the grand conspiracy claims, things that were brought up by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, also by the Director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, and the way that the intelligence community was weaponized against the President after President Trump was elected in 2016. And that uh was Shifted. The narrative was changed.

A new intelligence community assessment, ICA, was ordered by President Obama. And this is after. The all the ICAs before that. Had said the opposite of what then they put out. And that was a weaponized tool to then spark.

The FBI investigation crossfire hurricane as well as then leading to the firing of James Comey and the appointment of special counsel Bob Muller.

So What we're looking at is an investigation that's been going on since last year.

Now, James Comey will have to testify before this grand jury. as this US attorney seeks an indictment of someone or something. That is the big unknown at this point. Because grand jury, these proceedings are secret. They are meant to be secret.

They will remain secret. But it also tells you It is probably nearing the end that they're having the bigger names come forward now. It also is curious that he is going to testify before the grand jury because he may be a target of this, but they also may be seeking to get information from him. about other individuals.

So I do think that this is a big development. This is a big move. I'm curious to see what reporting comes out of this. And I'm curious to see how close we are to some sort of indictment being requested from this grand jury in Florida. That's right.

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1-800-684-54-4-4-4-4- 3110. Or whatever. Uh Welcome back to Sekulow. Also, want to miss the opportunity. See a lot of comments coming in.

Of course, there's a lot of talk around the office of the passing of Chuck Norris, obviously an acting legend, a great man of faith, a good man of character who has been a public pop culture icon, really, for our entire lives and before.

So, of course, our prayers to his family. A life well lived with Chuck Norris. Again, someone who has made many appearances on Christian media throughout the years and just seemed overall like an American legend.

So good on the great supporter also of Israel. He has someone who spent a lot of time there visiting, even with. Prime Minister Netanyahu.

So again, another voice, sadly gone, but again, a life well lived.

So I want to say that. Also, his support for the military. Oh, yeah. I mean, one, just a patriot in and of itself, but he went to visit with troops deployed in Iraq back in the early 2000s and used that time and his time to go and try and boost the morale of American soldiers and troops.

So just did so much for not just pop culture, but just for the country. Like he truly was a patriot. Seemed like a very good guy. And obviously a leader in the martial arts, which I think a lot of people were brought to martial arts because of Chuck Norris.

So with that, there are a lot of calls and comments coming in. Of course, there's obviously updates going on from around the world, the threats that are around the world. Sadly, we don't have Chuck Norris, someone who can protect us from a lot of those threats, it feels like. You know, when you talk about Iran, there is still obviously an ongoing battle. There's an ongoing Military encouragement that's happening.

And there are still, though a lot of the leadership has been taken out. There are still threats coming in from Iran. Iran threatened publicly, essentially. And some of this is, again, to scare you. is to make you feel uh unease.

And look, I understand Americans feel that way right now quite a bit. By saying specifically now, as we start to head into spring, spring kicked off today, today's first day of spring. Um People start traveling. They start looking at different places, tourist destinations. Anti-ranis essentially said, around the world.

You do not feel safe at these tourist destinations. That's right. So, even though overnight, in the ongoing conflict, their chief minister of propaganda, basically, who oversaw that entire operation, which was very robust from the Iranians, they are very good at utilizing technology and also laws that allow for free speech and things to their advantage by going after narratives online. But that person was taken out, but yet still a top military spokesman warned today that parks, recreational areas, and tourist destinations worldwide won't be safe. for Tehran's enemies.

Now this is not unexpected. That this is a threat. Obviously, they are going to continue to make threats as long as they try to hold on to power. But this is the threat that we have been concerned about the entire time. We already know there have been multiple attempted terror attacks in the United States since this conflict began.

from Radical Islam. We know the motivations and the ideology of these individuals that have tried to carry out these attacks. This is at a time where our nation's Department of Homeland Security. is defunded. That includes our Coast Guard, by the way.

That protects the homeland from the Coast Guard, our border patrol, as well as ICE, which we know they've also exploited the southern border to get people in this country. We know that more than 300 people on the terror watch list entered this country. during that they know of during the Biden administration.

So when they talk about parks, recreational areas, tourist destinations worldwide, I don't think this is an empty threat. I think they will continue to say that we will defeat the great Satan, we will bring down Israel, we will destroy Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. They can say those things. I don't believe that they have the capacity to do that. This one, I think they do.

I think they do have the capacity. Two.

Sow terror around the world as they've done for forty-seven years. They have been the world's largest exporter of terrorism for the entirety of the Islamic Republic. That is one of the many tools that they love to use to show their power. They are a paper tiger when it came to their military. They've been able to launch drones and launch missiles, but their air defenses and their air force and their navy.

was never as strong as they like to show it off as. And now we're seeing, though, what are they probably going to revert to? The thing that they actually were the best at, which is terrorism. And it is just absurd to me that the Democrats in the Senate. Will not get together and say, We think, according to our own polling and the way we're acting, we're about to take the Senate back over.

Do a year funding? Do a six-month funding of the Department of Homeland Security while we're in this conflict. You can't do that for the American people. Really? It's absurd.

There are a lot of calls and comments coming in. Most of them are related actually to our work going on in California. Which I think that's interesting. That's what struck the nerve today of our audience. It's kind of always great to have calls and comments because you're able to kind of see, you know, we talked about.

The Comey situation, I probably did okay.

Some of you guys wanted to talk about it. We got one call about it. We could take a call about that because the rest of them are really about what's going on in California and the fight. Uh really against churches around the country.

So let's start off with a call about Comey. And then I'm going to take some calls. About what's going on in California because so many of you are interested in that topic. Let's go to Michael in Florida. Uh go ahead, watch it on YouTube.

Gentlemen. I just want to say that being the Consumers. skeptic when it comes to the left and the woke left. never seeming to have to pay for anything. But yet with this new update with Comi.

I just got to say This makes me really happy. Yeah.

You know, Michael, if there is an indictment and they are able to prosecute James Comey, I think there are a lot of people that will share that feeling with you. I know a lot of people that watch this broadcast get so jaded. Because we do this. We do talk about this. We've been around this for so long.

This is a decade at this point. Exactly. And it is frustrating when there's. Seems to be no accountability.

Now, there's not no accountability. James Comey is no longer the FBI director. He may think that he has some sort of platform, really. I don't think anyone watches James Comey's little post on that. Seashells, right?

He did the 86, 47. He also did one weird one about the naming of a certain one of these operations. Maybe it was Artic Frost or whatever. And it was just so uncomfortable. No one really likes James Comey.

So I think to some degree, They are, he is held responsible. His entire legacy is completely ruined. But, yes, I think that what. Many people in the government did. Right after President Trump was elected, it rises to the level of criminality.

And I think a lot of us would like to see someone actually held accountable. Remember, there was a CIA attorney. That purposefully lied on a filing to a judge and got a slap on the wrist.

So we have seen too many people evade real accountability. It would be nice to see something. Look, with the ACLJ cases, you know, I have a list here next to me. One of them is earlier this week, we had big deadlines in our FOIA cases involving James Comey's use of spies in the White House. At about Arctic Frost.

Again, two of our roughly 20 ongoing FOIA cases are against what was considered to be, I guess you'd say, deep state operations.

So, again, the ACLJ is involved in a lot of these things in different ways. When you hear what's happening in California, we can't not tie that to the case that we're working on right now. We are in court. where they had to respond just yesterday. about our fight to protect and secure.

Calvary Chapel. While the state goes after them for millions of dollars in fines. A million-dollar fine, not much to the state of California. Up to a church. Again, this is Calvary Chapel San Jose.

Um They can mean everything. Phone lines are open for you. I'd love to hear from you. When we get back, we are going to take all the calls that are going to come in at 1-800-684-3110. If you call in now during this break, I will do my best to get to every single call that we have.

So, Olivia. Uh Tom, Bobby. And whoever else decides to call in, we're going to try to get to you. Coming up. We do have a question coming in on YouTube.

Maybe this will spark some conversation.

Someone wants to know if Logan is running for Congress. I don't think there's an open spot for me, right? I mean, you can always run. It's a mid there's midterms are coming up. You can primary somebody.

That's true. I don't feel that need. I got more people watching here. I can't think of a job you would like less than being a member of Congress. Uh yeah.

I can live here or I gotta live in D.C.

Well, you gotta be in DC a lot. Yeah, no, I'm out already. That's. Yeah, I'm good. You know, I'll run for mayor or something like that.

You know, we may have this office. I think you already are. I thought they had made a graphic of me running. That'd be really fun. I saw it out of the corner of my eye.

I'm like, did that? How did that? That's some AI craziness. But no, it was just this graphic. Put it up.

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Phone lines are, we've got two lines open: 1-800-684-31-10, but let's just go in the order of which they come in.

So many of you are calling about the state of California. We got one though, James Comey, too.

So we're going to have some fun here. Let's go to Olivia calling in Virginia, listening on the radio. Olivia, go ahead. Hi, thanks for taking my call. My opinion is that this I will call them people don't have any valid arguments.

Okay. To or weighty arguments to defend their position. That's why they ask delay after delay. They don't have any arguments. That's it.

Peace.

Well, and Olivia, unfortunately, the courts in California, in many cases, did side with the state. And that is part of the reason. Yes, I understand where you're going. And I agree. I don't think they have great arguments.

They don't even have a leg to stand on. But at the same time, they did win at the lower courts. That is why we were the ones that took this to the Supreme Court with Calvary Chapel, because this fine is still in place. They're still trying to enforce this against them, this $1.2 million. But yes, their arguments aren't even.

Based on whether or not the policies were good or bad, it's any of that. It literally is things such as: you know, this. Is already rescinded years ago, these policies, and it's very unlikely they're going to ever happen again.

So, therefore, this is kind of irrelevant at this point. Let's just move on. Another one of their claims also is why the Supreme Court should not take this is that the rulings in the court of California weren't the type of rulings that make precedent in the state.

So they're trying to say that, look, the state courts didn't even make precedent, so therefore we don't have to worry about someone using what happened there to do it again. They're trying to get around almost the entire argument about the validity of some of these orders in general. And go straight to, it's over. Let's not waste your time, Supreme Court. Please don't take this and let's just move on and we're good.

Like, you're, it's not even appropriate for them to bring it to you. Don't even worry about it. That's how this kind of reads to me. Yep. Olivia, thank you for calling.

Will we get rid of Olivia?

Now we have three lines, four lines open right now. In six minutes, I think we can take a couple more calls. 1-800-684-3110. If this inspired you, hopefully it inspires more people. Give me a call.

Let's move on to Tom, who's calling. In Virginia, on line 2. Tom, go ahead. Yes, sir. Are you able to hear me all right because I'm dry?

Yeah, not bad. Go ahead. I'll be very brief because I know your time is precious. There was a very large church, I believe, in Los Angeles, and I'm not 100% sure, but I know that you all know. I think John MacArthur was the pastor.

The first community church was the church. Yes, yes, sir. And he got fined billions or the church did billions of dollars during COVID, but was able to recover that in court and actually got an an apology from the state of Virginia. If I'm correct in that, Tom, so what happened was that that is different facts, but it kind of does all relate. Yeah, I cannot.

John MacArthur's church was being fined because they initially remember California said you cannot have an indoor church service. Yeah, they had shut it down. You cannot have a meeting or a gathering at all if you're a church.

So they were directly saying. You cannot practice your faith. You cannot. Uh exercise your First Amendment right to the freedom of religion. And that was through another case, the Supreme Court ruled pretty quickly that.

No, you can't ban church services. You can maybe have some restrictions. You can try to have public health things, but you cannot outright ban. Indoor meeting of churches. And that actually led to a settlement with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, where the church was paid by LA County $400,000 as a part of that settlement.

So all their fines went away, and they actually were able to get $400,000 from that violation from the state.

So thank you also for bringing that up. A lot of people in the chat, I see y'all as well that bring that up. That yes, John MacArthur was successful in that entire case and drama that the state was putting upon them. And we hope that even though the facts are different here, this is a different set of restrictions. It's not restrictions that were directly the Supreme Court ruled on.

It still ties in because it's all that COVID era mess. Yep, absolutely. I see a lot of good comments, as you said, coming in about that. We do have a couple. Lines and four minutes: 1-800-684-30110.

If you got a short call or comment, kind of the last call for them. Let's go to Bobby. Who is calling from New York? Go ahead. Hi, Logan.

Hi, Will. You guys make a good team. I think you ought to go on tour. But my question is: I think the Supreme Court is going to take the case.

So when they do, what are the odds of you guys winning? Do they look pretty good? And that's my question. Thank you. I think you can look at a bit of the panel of the court right now and go: look, it's not a slam dunk always.

You have many justices that, look, in a good way, Vote for what they feel is right and constitutional. Don't necessarily always fall within a party line.

However, I do think you probably have a better chance in the Supreme Court than maybe you do even in the state. That's right. Actually, Bobby, the harder part. Is not winning it. I'm confident in our team.

I'm confident in the legal arguments that the attorneys at the ACLJ have put forward. The hard part is actually getting the court to take it up. They don't take up that many cases. You hear about cases all the time, but there are so many cert petitions that the Supreme Court receives and they never take up.

So many that we've filed in our history. The ACLJ has been blessed to make great precedent in this country through landmark decisions because we're so good and because the cases are so selective that we will take to the Supreme Court, but it is, we have just as many that the Supreme Court deny cert to.

So we right now have two cert petitions at the Supreme Court on very big issues. This one and the New York Times v. Sullivan issue, where we're going after CNN. That's why these state fights or a city fight or a local fight is still very, very important. Yes, you can attempt.

to work your way up the system. That number one takes Years to do. This is the federal government. This is the legal system. It is not fast.

It is a big, big process.

So, you got to remember that when you're going into it.

So, that's why these fights that may seem localized are incredibly important. It's why we still want to have the best of the best in terms of the attorneys that we have up. I want to take one call before we wrap up today. Let's go to Derek calling online one. Derek, take us home.

Hi, I'm Derek from Michigan. I just appreciate what you guys do. I just called the other day. I decided that I was going to take it a step further. I wanted to help.

I became a champion today. Thank you. I want to urge everybody listening today. Please. Joey.

Help out. Truth, freedom, and justice matter. And you guys help a lot. You're amazing. Derek.

And you guys get me helped for the I really appreciate that. It sounds like we put you up to that call. No, that we didn't. Derek just called and became an ACLJ champion today. Welcome.

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