Residents Threatened With Fines For Flying American Flag

**SPEAKER_1** (0:10)
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**Todd Starnes** (0:29)
Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes radio program. Great to have you with us today on this...
Well, we're not going to do a five-day eve, a five-day 4th of July eve. Anyway, all that to say, we're going to be live all this week here on the Todd Starnes radio show. I know a lot of folks like to take vacation time, but we're going to be hanging out with you. A lot of news happening across the country, and we're going to get to all of it today. Of course, the Supreme Court handing down some very disappointing rulings today. By the way, tomorrow could be the most disappointing of them all when it comes to birthright citizenship.
We shall see. And not all was bad today. The president does, in fact, have the right to fire members of the deep state, so the Supreme Court made the right decision there. But when it comes to voting integrity, ladies and gentlemen, for me, this is the most important thing, and this is something that the Supreme Court completely dropped the ball on today. As a matter of fact, earlier today, there was a case out of Mississippi, and Amy Coney Barrett and the chief justice, John Roberts, sided with the liberals on the court to say that there is no such thing as a singular election day. And this is bad news for those of you who believe in voting integrity. This is a five-to-four decision. And the rule is that any mail-in ballots received after election day can still be counted. Now, here's the problem with that. And we're seeing this in California, for example, where for the first, I don't know, several days after the election, you had people like Spencer Pratt doing very, very well in the polls. But then every single day that went on, they mysteriously found, yes, more ballots. And at the end of the day, Spencer Pratt lost his race. At the end of multiple days. And I think there's still counting ballots in California. So this is a very bad decision. Justice Sam Alito rightly pointed out that confidence in election results will be seriously undermined. And he's, well, he's absolutely right here.
And this is yet another reason why the Supreme Court has to, or rather the Senate has to pass the Save America Act. But let me just say something, that's not going to happen. That is not going to happen. The Republican senators, they loathe President Trump. And I'm just going to say this, I think many of them do. I don't think it's just a handful. I think many of the Republican senators, they loathe President Trump. They don't like him. They don't like the way he's been running the country. They don't like his jokes. They don't like his insults. They don't like the guy.
They don't like him one bit.
And they would rather put the integrity of future elections at stake than give him a victory here. And by the way, this is what happens when you elect Republicans in name only to the Senate. You've got a bunch of rhinos up on Capitol Hill. And I'll explain that in just a moment here. But also this is what happens when you nominate fake constitutionalists to the highest court in the land. How many times has Amy Coney Barrett disappointed constitutionalists? How many times? And I doubt it'll be the last tomorrow birthright citizenship comes down. And pretty much everybody is saying this is going to be a major blow, a major blow to those of us who believe in being born an American citizen.
So this is incredibly, incredibly disappointing. I wanna go back and I think we have the, we have some audio here from Sam Alito. This was during the arguments, the oral arguments on this case regarding mail in ballot counting, cut number six.

**Samuel Alito** (4:33)
We have lots of phrases that involve two words, the last of which, the second of which is day. Labor Day, Memorial Day, George Washington's birthday, Independence Day, birthday, and election day. And they're all particular days. So if we start with that, if I have nothing more to look at than the phrase election day, I think this is the day in which everything is going to take place and or almost everything. And then we have three points in time, 1844, 1872, 1914
And we can ask, what would people have thought on those days is meant by this phrase election day? Which of those should we choose? Which of those dates should we choose?

**SPEAKER_4** (5:25)
Well, I think you could choose any of the three. I mean, honestly, I think the single best one, if you're just going to choose one, is 1872 And the reason I say that is because 1914 is the latest in time, but that's the one that Congress gave the least thought to.