From Riots to Rulings: Rep. Fine Sounds the Alarm on Judicial Overreach

In this segment, Congressman Randy Fine unleashes a scathing critique of what he calls “Deep State 2.0,” pointing to a recent ruling by Senior District Judge Charles Breyer that temporarily stripped Donald Trump of his ability to deploy the National Guard in California. Fine doesn’t hold back—calling the decision a direct assault on executive authority and a dangerous new front in the war against constitutional governance.

He describes how, during Trump’s first term, the resistance came from entrenched bureaucrats. Now, he argues, the resistance is judicial—enabled by strategic judge shopping and rogue rulings that twist the law to fit partisan agendas. According to Fine, this latest episode is part of a “judicial coup” and evidence that the left is manipulating the courts to block conservative leadership.

Fine drops a bombshell: he plans to file articles of impeachment against Judge Breyer, asserting that any judge who doesn’t believe the president has the right to deploy the National Guard in times of crisis “has no business being a judge.” He emphasizes that the Constitution grants the president the role of Commander in Chief, and interference with that authority during times of insurrection is both unprecedented and unacceptable.

The congressman also takes aim at left-leaning media and their portrayal of civil unrest, mocking the now-infamous “mostly peaceful protest” narrative by sarcastically congratulating Israel on their “mostly peaceful bombing of Iran” in a viral tweet. He compares the current political climate to Orwell’s 1984, accusing the media and the left of gaslighting the public by labeling violence as peace.

To close the segment, Fine offers a grim forecast for the future of fiscal responsibility under current Democratic leadership, briefly pivoting to the national debt and suggesting bipartisan cooperation looks unlikely.

Transcript

Sam Stone: We're continuing on now with Congressman Randy Fine representing Florida's 6th Congressional District. Folks can follow him on X at Rep. Fine.

Chuck Warren: Congressman, fine. So we had, within the last 48 hours, Senior District Judge Charles Breyer, the brother of former Supreme Court Justice Breyer, take basically the National Guard away from Donald Trump in California.

And fortunately, an appeal last night came back. Look, these judge—I've never seen so many injunctions in my life. What are we going to do about it? I mean, the judicial system's there for a reason, but this is just out of hand now.

Congressman Fine: Well, look, this is deep state part two. So in Trump 1.0 from 2016 to 2020, the deep state exerted itself through the bureaucracy. That's how they fought what he was going to do. President Trump figured that out with part of the reason he's doing such an amazing job as he had four years to think about how he would do things differently.

So now they've had to find a new method. And the method is judicial coup. And so you've got, you know, individual judges sitting in some little part of the country. There's lots of circuits. They're just doing their judge shopping and they're finding this insanity.

And these judges are making these decisions that aren't based in the law or the Constitution. Well, there are checks and balances in this world. And one of the checks and balances is the power of impeachment. And it's time to go after these judges and throw them out.

I mean, the president is the commander in chief of the United States. There is rioting and insurrection going on in California. He had every right to call up the National Guard and any judge that doesn't believe that has no business being a judge.

So I am filing as soon as I can articles of impeachment on that judge to get him off the bench.

Sam Stone: I loved the line that the DOJ put in the initial contest to this judge saying there is no rioters veto to federal law.

Congressman Fine: Yeah, no, but if you listen to the left, they would say there's no rioters.

I mean, it's insane. We are living in 1984 from that book. I mean, like you can see people burning cars and hitting ICE agents, and then they'll look at you and they'll say it's peaceful or mostly peaceful. I just made a tweet on X at my account that you mentioned, Rep Fine, where I congratulated Israel on their mostly peaceful bombing of Iran. I mean, that's the sort of lunacy that we're getting from the left today.

Sam Stone: That's a great tweet.

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