June 18, 2020
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Holding the Court in Contempt
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by Tony Perkins
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At a time when Congress is lucky to scrape together an 11-percent confidence rating, a majority of Americans have expressed an unusual level of faith in our justices. Maybe they still believe SCOTUS is above the political fray. But trust in the court may become increasingly difficult after Monday's "legislative" decision by six justices to redefine the meaning of biological sex.
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Law and Disorder: Trump Steps In
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by Tony Perkins
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There were 1,025 of them in Minneapolis alone -- buildings, homes, businesses, all damaged by the state's three weeks of rioting. A colored map shows each spots of destruction, so dense it's like looking down at a metropolis from a nighttime flight. "It's going to take a long, long time" to even quantify all the wreckage, officials say. And it's not over yet.
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Sinjar in the Crosshairs
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by Tony Perkins
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He was only eight years old when ISIS fighters ripped him from his mom's arms. "How do I feel?" he repeats blankly when a reporter asks him what it's like to home again. "Really," he said quietly, "I don't know how to feel." Mazen spent five years starving under his captors, rising every morning with the knowledge that he was being trained to kill his own people. Until one day, last spring, when he was freed, sent back to a family he wasn't sure was even alive.
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Today's show features: Travis Weber, FRC's Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs, on Senate Democrats attempting to force a vote on the so-called "Equality Act," while GOP Senators Hawley, Lee, and Lankford objected to the proposed legislation; Jeff Sessions, former U.S. Attorney General and former U.S. Senator from Alabama, on the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling redefining sex in federal law; Dr. Aykan Erdemir, Senior Director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) Turkey program, a former member of the Turkish Parliament, and a former member of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, on the rise of anti-Semitism in Turkey pushing Turkish Jews out of their homeland; John Daniel Davidson, Political Editor for The Federalist, on the media's double standard, criticizing Trump rallies but not people gathered to protest.
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