On Wednesday�s Mark Levin Show, NY Judge Engoron and AG Letitia James are
violating Donald Trump�s 8th amendment � �Excessive bail shall not be
required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments
inflicted.� Hundreds of years ago this is what the English monocry did. When
you purchase a home or property, that represents your freedom and humanity.
When a radical Judge and AG say they are taking it from you under the cover
of a never-before-used statute � that�s an attack on your liberty and
humanity. What should be done next? File a motion to stay accompanied by the
motion with a request for expedited discovery in aid of the motion and 8th
Amendment defense. Trump can bring about civil rights action, if the facts
bear it out in depositions, against NY AG Letitia James and the Manhattan DA
Alvin Bragg that they were colluding for the purpose of denying Trump his
constitutional rights. Also, brave Republicans in the House voted to impeach
Mayorkas, correctly. Now the problem is some Senate Republicans. Thirteen
Republican Senators are urging Sen. Mitch McConnell to force a formal
impeachment trial, who might be trying to avoid a trial. Later, Iran is
funding the wider conflict in the Middle East. Iran is training and arming
the terrorists who are involved in this wider conflict and yet the Biden
administration comes to the defense of Iran over and over again. This
administration is pro-Iran, anti-American, and anti-Israel. Finally, Gov Ron
DeSantis calls in to discuss Article V and the need for term limits and a
balanced budget amendment. Gov DeSantis also explains why Nikki Haley is
still in the Presidential race when Trump is dominating.

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. You
know, what�s interesting is Rush used to call an echo chamber things that we
say here. Often do wind up into the broader narrative, despite the fact that
you have individuals who claim that they thought these things up or whatever,
it�s okay. This whole Eighth Amendment issue. Which I�ll explain again,
because things can get complicated. But over the weekend, a buddy of mine for
how many years now? Wow. 44 years. 43 years. I started out in the Reagan
administration almost right after law school when I was 23. This gentleman
and I, Arthur Ferguson. We met each other. In the Reagan administration
became fast friends and have been for decade. I�m a constitutionalist. He�s a
constitutionalist. So I contacted him over the weekend and I said, Look what
they�ve done to Trump here. His violated his constitutional rights. And we�ve
got to hone in on exactly which way to violate it because. You can�t throw a
60 yard pass. It�s got to be something that�s substantive and something that
can, in fact, be applied to the law. And the fact patterns in the case with
Letitia James and the fraudulent judge. So we went back and forth to some
extent. And we fell on the Eighth Amendment. Now, why did we do that? Again.
We went back and forth and I said to Arthur, You need to write this up. First
of all, I don�t have time, but you need to write this up. Nice short piece.
I�ll send it over to Fox Digital. Which is where he wanted it to appear. And
there were a lot of law professors. Steve Calabrese, brilliant guy who I also
worked with at the Justice Department, and Jonathan Turley, who�s also
brilliant at George Washington Law School. A very, very good man. But I
thought they were missing the mark. This isn�t in any respect to put. People
are trying to figure out how to how to address what�s taken place here. So
Arthur�s piece focused on the Eighth Amendment. Why the Eighth Amendment?
Most people don�t even read the Eighth Amendment. But this is what I do. And
when I ask my friends, this is what they do. Craig Banister over at CNS News.
He got it right. President Trump has an Eighth Amendment challenge to the
unconstitutional fines levied against him by a rogue judge. Constitutional
scholar Mark Levine noted Tuesday, commenting in the extraordinary $370
million fine with interest imposed by a New York judge. Later that day,
former President Trump posted the text of the Eighth Amendment on Truce
Social Platform, later linking the to the same article linked by Levin in his
comment posted on X, formerly Twitter. The text of the Eighth Amendment. This
aspect is quite simple. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive
fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Now, let me stop
there. Why do you think? The Constitution has its Eighth Amendment among its
Bill of Rights. As you know, the Bill of Rights were added after the
Constitution was ratified as a promise. The state legislatures and
conventions. That the new national government would circle back and address
some of the concerns the states had. And the states were going to vote
against the Constitution without the assurances. And so these ten amendments.
Our amendments that were basically demanded by the states. Accessible shall
not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual
punishment inflicted. Why would the states want this? Because hundreds and
hundreds of years ago. This is exactly what the. English monarchy did to
people who was trying to destroy the opponents of the crown. The crown needed
money. The Crown wanted to punish people who spoke out against the Crown and
on and on and on. They would use an attack on their private property. To shut
them up or destroy them. That�s why private property rights were so crucial
when this nation was founded, among other reasons. Your private property,
your home, your cars, whatever. What does that represent? Just some theory
about capitalism. Not much more than that. What does capitalism represent?
They represent this America. How many of you work for a living? How many of
you have worked but are now retired? Did he get up in the morning and go to
work and come back at night? Did you do it five days a week? Did you work one
job? Two jobs? Did you spend 20, 30, 40 years on the job? It represents. Your
freedom. That is your application of your time on Earth. Physical and
intellectual application. Of your humanity, of your time on earth, towards
the production of something for which you are compensated. It�s a unique
skill. We�re not a unique skill. We only have a limited amount of time on
this earth. Try James Madison, Talk about private property more broadly than
actual physical, tangible property. Said you have private property in your
being in your existence. And what he meant by that is. People do not have the
right to impose illegitimate. Illegitimate demands on you. Government does
not have that right. So I knew when you work hard and you purchase a home and
you pay a mortgage every month. That represents your freedom, your liberty.
They represent your humanity. Nobody gave it to you. You did this with your
time, with your sweat, with your blood, with your tears, with your sacrifice
and your family sacrifice day in and day out. You did this. Someone, some
potentate, whether it�s a king or an attorney general in New York, steps in
and says, I�m taking it from you. Under the Mirage or cover. I�ve never used
statute. In front of a radical judge, both elected Democrats, The attorney
general said she was going to get Trump and she uses this statute. That is an
attack on your liberty. It is attack. When you humanity. That�s not about
doing justice. That�s the opposite. And Brett, when we talked about Bashar
last night. That is using the law to commit a crime against an individual and
their property rights and their freedom. And then self-righteously claim that
you are in, you�re enforcing the law. When you�re committing a crime that.
That is camouflaged by the law and your use of the law. That�s why there�s an
Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. Because the men who wrote the
Constitution and later the Bill of Rights. We�re well aware of what happened
in Britain. They�re well aware of what happens with a centralized power. The
Eighth Amendment�s rarely talked about. For a lot of reasons. Among the most
important. Is that the media, academia, law professors, most of whom are
socialist, slash Marxist, only want you to be aware of it. Accessible shall
not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual
punishments inflicted. And they�ve used the Eighth Amendment to try and
protect people on death row, particularly if they�re younger and so forth.
Excessive punishments. But in 2018. The case was brought by. By a man. Who
had some drug paraphernalia. In his Land Rover. The drugs and the drug
paraphernalia amounted to about 1200 dollars. So what happened was. He was
punished. It was brought to court. But they confiscated his Range Rover,
which was worth $42,000. They effectively the state the town. And this
occurred in Indiana. And so it�s called the Tim�s case Ambush. The penny was
issued in 2019. He brought the case in 2018. So it�s a very recent Supreme
Court case, the United States. So the district court agreed that that part of
the penalty was excessive under the Eighth Amendment. The appellate court in
Indiana agreed that that part of the Eighth Amendment was excessive. The
Supreme Court of Indiana said, no, it�s not excessive. And by the way, the
Eighth Amendment doesn�t even apply. It�s a federal matter. The Bill of
Rights. It�s a federal matter. It�s not incorporated. To apply to the states
under the 14th Amendment. Now is a footnote. When you look at the Bill of
Rights, The Bill of Rights. The first date, the ninth and 10th part. Have
nothing to do with the state. It�s all about protecting you from this new
national government. But over the course of many decades, the Supreme Court
has slowly. Applied Incorporated is called Incorporation Doctrine. The First
Amendment. The Second Amendment. The third, fourth, fifth, sixth. To the
States. But what about the eighth? What about cruel and unusual punishments,
in effect? What about excessive fines imposed in particular? The Supreme
Court ruled. That the taking the Mr. Timms Range Rover in addition to the
other penalties. Over a 1200 dollar criminal act. Was an excessive fine under
the Eighth Amendment. It ruled further. That the Eighth Amendment does, in
fact, apply to the states. By way of the 14th Amendment due process clause,
and that�s what they used to incorporate the other parts of the Bill of
Rights, the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Therefore, and if you
read the 14th Amendment, you see a lot of the Fifth Amendment. Therefore the
court ruled 9 to 0 with to not objectors. But two additional opinion. It�s.
And by Justices Gorsuch and Thomas. But in the end it was 9 to 0 that that
was excessive. And in fact, the Eighth Amendment does apply in this regard to
the states. It�s always applied in terms of the imprisonment and so forth.
But in this regard, excessive fines imposed. It also applies to the states.
It was the ruling in 2019. When President Trump was cited excuse me, was
interviewed the other night. A great interview, I thought. He did a fantastic
job. He raised the Eighth Amendment and. The response was. But that�s a state
issue, this issue of fines and penalties. But under the Timbs decision in
2019, it�s not merely a state issue. In fact, the Eighth Amendment, in terms
of excessive fines and penalties does apply to states. Now I want to go a
step further. Yes. This is a constitutional law class. But it�s in plain
English. But I want you to learn more about this because it�s very, very
important. And I�m hoping the president�s lawyers pursue this. After I posted
the article from my friend Arthur, President Trump retweeted it and he also
had tweeted a text of the language of the Eighth Amendment. More when I
return.