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Birthright Battle Ends—High Court Delivers Major Blow to Trump Agenda · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Because it is a serious problem we have. We have
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  Speaker 1: it's become a tourism, birthing tourism they call it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trend where people will just come and you just come
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  Speaker 1: on to the soil and have your child and then
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  Speaker 1: they're they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state
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  Speaker 1: and everything else. It's it's been abused. It's one of
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  Speaker 1: those things that was intended to serve a noble, important
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  Speaker 1: purpose and has been thwarted and been overused and abused.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
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  Speaker 3: Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on
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  Speaker 3: the forty seven Morning Update. Birthright citizenship it was a
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  Speaker 3: top priority for a major debate by the President of
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  Speaker 3: the United States of America.
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  Speaker 4: For all Americans.
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  Speaker 3: And now we have the decision that has come in
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  Speaker 3: from the Supreme Court. They are now affirming birthright citizenship,
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  Speaker 3: meaning anchor babies are one hundred percent American. But did
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  Speaker 3: they say that the President can't continue to move to
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  Speaker 3: find the issue.
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  Speaker 4: We have that answer for you in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: Also, Department of Allan Security coming out with major arrests
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  Speaker 3: all over the country of illegal immigrants with major criminal histories,
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  Speaker 3: So why is the media not covering it?
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  Speaker 4: We have their stories for you as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's a forty seven morning update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 4: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: The Supreme Court ruled that states can finally ban transgendered
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  Speaker 3: athletes from women's in girls' sports. And this is the
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  Speaker 3: moment when feminists should be celebrating.
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  Speaker 4: So why are they not?
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  Speaker 3: Because it was conservatives and Presidentald Trump that actually pushed
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  Speaker 3: the issue. After years of lawsuits, years of political battles,
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  Speaker 3: emotional testimony from female athletes, and then a national debate
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  Speaker 3: that dominated the headlines, the United States Supreme Court ruled
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  Speaker 3: that states can in fact protect girls and women's sports
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  Speaker 3: by limiting female athlete competitions to biological females. And it
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  Speaker 3: was a six to three decision. The Court upheld the
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  Speaker 3: laws from Idaho and West Virginia, concluding they do not
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  Speaker 3: violate either Title nine or the Constitution. Now, for millions
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  Speaker 3: of Americans, this isn't simply about politics. This is about fairness.
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  Speaker 3: It's about preserving the very reason women's sports exist in
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  Speaker 3: the first place. And for President Donald Trump, this represents
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  Speaker 3: one of the defining victories of his second term female
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  Speaker 3: athletes coming out. One of them, who played volleyball at
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  Speaker 3: San Jose State, saying this on Fox News Channel about
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  Speaker 3: the ruling.
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  Speaker 5: I just had to practice with him. I wasn't even
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  Speaker 5: playing against him in a real game, so at the
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  Speaker 5: bare minimum, at least I got to know his tendencies
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  Speaker 5: so I could keep myself a little bit safer. But
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  Speaker 5: even then, it's like I'm still getting slammed in at
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  Speaker 5: my body. I bruises on my legs from getting hit
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  Speaker 5: with a ball, like these other teams don't know what
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  Speaker 5: they're walking into.
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  Speaker 4: And that's even worse than.
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  Speaker 5: Well I had to go through going into practice every
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  Speaker 5: single day trying to keep myself safe, but these other
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  Speaker 5: student athletes at other institutions going into it not even
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  Speaker 5: knowing what they're walking into.
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  Speaker 3: And there were you listen to that, and that is
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  Speaker 3: exactly why the President wanted to move forward and act.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 3: As a quick reminder, twenty nine states restrict trans athletes
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  Speaker 3: in girls' sports, and of course every radical extreme low
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  Speaker 3: LGBTQ plus organization immediately jumped into sue. There was a
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  Speaker 3: study also that came out that one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 3: two thousand trans high school athletes is the total they
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  Speaker 3: claim In the US. A study also found that one
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  Speaker 3: percent of high school athletes aren't quote trans, and the NCAA,
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  Speaker 3: after President Donald Trump got into office, banned trans athletes
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  Speaker 3: in girls' sports. You can see exactly why this decision
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  Speaker 3: was such a big deal. Now, President Trump, he said,
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  Speaker 3: this represents one of the defining victories of his second term.
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  Speaker 4: And you may ask yourself, how do we even get here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, to understand why today was such a major moment,
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  Speaker 3: you literally have to go back fifty years back in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen seventy two, Congress passed Title nine, and the goal
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  Speaker 3: was really straightforward, women and girls deserve equal opportunities in education,
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  Speaker 3: including athletics. Again, it was actually about education first, not
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  Speaker 3: just athletics. And before Title nine, many schools barely funded
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  Speaker 3: girls sports. Scholarships didn't exist, facilities were often inferior, they
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  Speaker 3: were a joke if they even had them at all,
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  Speaker 3: and many girls simply didn't have the chance to compete.
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  Speaker 3: Title nine changed all of that, and over the next
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  Speaker 3: fifty years, participation in girls and women's athletics exploded. You
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  Speaker 3: have millions of young women that earned scholarships giving them
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  Speaker 3: a chance to go to college. Women's College sports then
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  Speaker 3: flourished professional leagues and expanded, and then the Olympic opportunities
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  Speaker 3: multiplied exponentially. You literally had an entire generation of female
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  Speaker 3: athletes that benefited from protections designed specifically for them.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, for women, not for men.
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  Speaker 3: Now in recent years, you saw the change happen before
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  Speaker 3: your very eyes. In the early twenty twenties, you had
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  Speaker 3: this massive mandate that you must allow any man who
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  Speaker 3: claims their women to be able to compete with women
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  Speaker 3: and use their locker rooms and their facilities.
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  Speaker 4: That is insane.
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  Speaker 3: You then witness people that had done their entire life
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  Speaker 3: focusing on a sport, not when or the records, that
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  Speaker 3: were beaten by men claiming they were women. Now, the
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  Speaker 3: simple question was, look, should biological males who identify as
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  Speaker 3: female be allowed to compete in women's sports. This is
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  Speaker 3: when you would think the feminists wild to stand up
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  Speaker 3: and said protect women's sports, But the liberals didn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, they advocated for this, and then that question
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  Speaker 3: has now moved to the entire country. Some female athletes
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  Speaker 3: said they were losing championships and the data backed it up.
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  Speaker 3: Then you had the scholarship opportunities that were disappearing. That
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  Speaker 3: was another problem. Then you had podium finishes where men
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  Speaker 3: were standing at the top during women's sports, and then
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  Speaker 3: the roster spots that were being filled by men instead
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  Speaker 3: of women in women's sports. Now, there were many others
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  Speaker 3: that raised concerns about safety. You heard one of them
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  Speaker 3: just a moment ago. They said the contact sports, it
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  Speaker 3: was insane. And then integrity of sex separated competition. Supporters,
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  Speaker 3: of course, on the radical left of transgendered inclusion, argued
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  Speaker 3: that transgendered athletes deserved equal opportunities to participate and that
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  Speaker 3: blanket bans discriminate on the basis of gender identity. The country, well,
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  Speaker 3: it was divided. If you're conservative, you probably were on
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  Speaker 3: the side of sanity, and if you were a radical liberal,
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  Speaker 3: you were probably on the side of insanity.
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  Speaker 4: And that is where Donald Trump came in.
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  Speaker 3: Throughout his presidential campaigns, I said that as a plural
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  Speaker 3: word campaigns, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that if he was elected,
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  Speaker 3: he would protect women's sports at all costs. Now, many
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  Speaker 3: political observers initially dismissed the issue as nothing but symbolic,
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  Speaker 3: but after returning to office, the president showed he wasn't joking,
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  Speaker 3: and he made it one of his very first priorities.
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  Speaker 3: In February of twenty twenty five, Trump signed the executive
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  Speaker 3: order titled Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports.
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  Speaker 4: You can't be any clearer than that.
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  Speaker 3: And the order was very clear, directing federal agencies to
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  Speaker 3: interpret Title nine protections based on biological sex and then
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  Speaker 3: warned that schools receiving federal funding could face consequences if
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  Speaker 3: they allowed biological males to compete in girls and women's sports.
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  Speaker 3: That executive order immediately became a major political fight. Supporters
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  Speaker 3: called it common sense, the left and the media called
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  Speaker 3: it discriminatory. And this again was another example of the
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  Speaker 3: President saying, I am willing to have this fight, and
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  Speaker 3: let's go to the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 4: Now more than half of.
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  Speaker 3: The states had already enacted laws in this country addressing
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  Speaker 3: transgender participation school athletics, and that set the states for
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  Speaker 3: the major constitutional showdown. Eventually, there were two cases that
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  Speaker 3: reached the Supreme Court. One involved Idaho, the other involved
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia. I was actually in the oral arguments at
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  Speaker 3: the Supreme Court for these cases. Now, both states argued
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  Speaker 3: they had a legitimate interest in preserving fairness and safety
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  Speaker 3: in girls athletics by limiting female sports to biological males.
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  Speaker 3: The challengers argued that these laws violated Title nine and
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  Speaker 3: the Equal Protection Clause. Now, during those oral arguments, several
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  Speaker 3: conservative justices questioned house schools could preserve sex based athletics
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  Speaker 3: if biological sex could not be used as an eligibility standard. Well,
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  Speaker 3: today the Court answered that question. The Supreme Court ruled
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  Speaker 3: that states may maintain those protections for girls and women's sports.
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  Speaker 3: Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority, concluding that states
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  Speaker 3: may base eligibility for women's school sports on biological sex,
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  Speaker 3: and that doing so is consistent with Title nine and
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  Speaker 3: the Constitution as well.
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  Speaker 4: Now this is a historic moment.
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  Speaker 3: The ruling says, this decision preserves the original purpose of
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  Speaker 3: Title nine, and if you're a woman, you should be thrilled.
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  Speaker 3: They argue women's sports were created because of biological differences. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: there are real differences between men and women, and that
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  Speaker 3: maintaining the separate female competitions actually protects competitive fairness as
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  Speaker 3: well as athletic opportunities through scholarships and countless other things.
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  Speaker 3: They also argue the ruling provides legal clarity now for
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  Speaker 3: the states and schools and coaches in athletic organizations after
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  Speaker 3: years of uncertainty and lawsuits. The decision is also likely
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  Speaker 3: to influence ongoing litigation other states with similar laws. And again,
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  Speaker 3: this is nothing but a leadership Trump victory. Even though
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  Speaker 3: these cases involve state laws. President Trump made the issue
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  Speaker 3: a central part of his platform, he campaigned on it,
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  Speaker 3: he signed an executive order on it, and his administration
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  Speaker 3: supported the states defending these laws before the Supreme Court. Now,
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  Speaker 3: after the ruling, President Trump celebrated the decision, calling it
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  Speaker 3: a big win. Supporters say today's outcome reflex years a
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  Speaker 3: political effort to reshape how Total nine is interpreted and
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  Speaker 3: also enforced. Now, it's important also to understand that many
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  Speaker 3: Americans are going to fight back on this. Opponents are
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  Speaker 3: going to argue transgender students should have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: participate in sports consistent with their gender identity, and you
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  Speaker 3: can bet they're going to try any way they can
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  Speaker 3: to force men on women in sports. Next story number two,
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  Speaker 3: another example of law and order. No matter where you
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  Speaker 3: are in this country illegally, the Trump administration is coming
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  Speaker 3: after you. The Department of Homeland Security announcing yesterday, the
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  Speaker 3: US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested multiple convicted criminal
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  Speaker 3: illegal aliens over the weekend as part of the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration's ongoing immigration enforcement campaign. In a simple press release,
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  Speaker 3: the DHS said that those arrested had prior convictions for
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  Speaker 3: crimes including homicide, child sexual assault, aggravated rape, assault with
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  Speaker 3: a deadly weapon, drug trafficking, burglary, and child abuse. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: these are the people that are in our country illegally now.
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  Speaker 3: The agency identified individuals arrested in multiple states, including North Carolina, Colorado, California, Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Utah,
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  Speaker 3: and Nevada. That is how far reaching the tentacles of
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  Speaker 3: illegal immigrant criminal activity are in this country.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's not just border states now.
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  Speaker 3: Among those listed were a Mexican national who had been
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  Speaker 3: convicted of homicide in North Carolina, a Mexican national convicted
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  Speaker 3: of sexually assaulting a child in Colorado, a Guatemalan national
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  Speaker 3: convicted of felony assault in Virginia, and several foreign nationals
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  Speaker 3: convicted of cocaine trafficking offenses.
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  Speaker 4: Quote.
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  Speaker 3: Over the weekend, the men and women of ICE were
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  Speaker 3: hard at work arresting criminal legal aliens convicted for homicide,
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  Speaker 3: child sexual abuse, assault, rape, and drug trafficking is what
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  Speaker 3: the acting Assistant Secretary said in the statement. She said
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  Speaker 3: the administration would continue arresting and removing criminal legal immigrants
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  Speaker 3: from the United States America. Now, these arrests also come
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  Speaker 3: as the Trump administration has made immigration enforcement and then
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  Speaker 3: deportations clearly the centerpiece of the second term agenda of
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump. Now, the administration has directed ICE to increase
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  Speaker 3: arrests and removals. Let me say that again, increase arrests
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  Speaker 3: and removals and prioritizing illegal immigrants with criminal convictions while
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  Speaker 3: expanding enforcement operations nationwide. The administration officials have argued that
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  Speaker 3: the effort is aimed at improving public safety. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: the radical left contains broader enforcement actions that are sweeping
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  Speaker 3: in some immigrants without serious criminal records. Well, they're saying
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  Speaker 3: this is unfair and not due process. But the DHS, well,
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  Speaker 3: they made it clear the individual's arrested over the weekend
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  Speaker 3: they already had final removal orders or provide additional details
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  Speaker 3: on the timings for the their convictions. Make it clear
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  Speaker 3: that yes, they're going for the worst among.
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