Back to episode — Episode 2732 CWSA 01/27/25
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ll the time every day. I use it several times and every time I'm impressed. It just it doesn't fail. It's just so good. Anyway their valuation went from not much to 9 billion and I guess that gives them the confidence to put together a bid for TikTok. And their bid would do something to keep the existing stockholders in it somehow but would give the United States, the government of America, it wo…
← Previous segment →dsey Graham said that he thinks there's a good chance the Supreme Court will uphold the banning of illegal foreign people using it for let's say gaming the system. So I don't know if Lindsey Graham has a good handle on what the Supreme Court will do but he's a serious guy and there's a serious argument for it.
The argument against it, well let me say this. If the only thing the court looked at was what was the original intent it's actually a slam dunk. It's a slam dunk that they did not intend foreigners to come in and have a baby and make it an American. That seems to be clear if you go with the original argument. And it all has to do with what the word jurisdiction meant. And I'm still not clear about how that's important in the story but apparently if we know that the person who wrote it said I meant it to be this and not that that's pretty clear. So we'll see.
But the precedent of doing it to include anybody who is here for any reason is so long that I don't know if the Supreme Court is going to say you know it's been too long. You know it's too much precedent. Maybe. But what's different is the risk is completely different now and I don't know to what extent the Supreme Court takes that into consideration. So let's say they had a situation where if they rule one way they think they're right in terms of the Constitution but it would clearly be really dangerous for the country itself. Would they do it or would they say we don't want to destroy the country so we'
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re going to rule in a way that doesn't rock the boat too much? I don't know. I don't think that they would be oblivious to the impact on the country and just look at the law but they're kind of supposed to right? It's sort of their job just to look at the law and not worry too much about the externals. But I think they have to as human beings. All right yeah they certainly rocked the boat with ab…
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