A conservative group from Wisconsin has suffered a major setback in their effort to stop President Biden's student loan debt forgiveness plan, as a three-judge panel ruled that they will NOT issue an injunction to stop the plan from being implemented - for the time being. Republicans are terrified that debt forgiveness is going to give Democrats the upper hand in the midterms, and that's why they are desperate to stop it from happening. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.rawstory.com/student-loan-forgiveness-court-case/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. This week, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals smacked down an attempt by a Wisconsin conservative group to, uh, get rid of President Biden's student loan debt forgiveness program. Now, I had actually talked about this group about a week or so ago. This was the group, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, um. And they filed the lawsuit trying to stop poor people from getting student loan debt forgiveness by saying, Oh, no, no, no. This violates the 14th Amendment's Equal protection clause. Because Biden said, Hey, this is gonna benefit a lot of black people here in the United States. So this Wisconsin group that I'm assuming is probably very white, I haven't looked at them, so I don't know for certain, but I'm gonna assume probably a lot of white people, um, says, Nope, you can't do that because that's racist against everybody. That's not black. So, so we're suing you claiming your student loan debt. Forgiveness is racist against white people. Um, a three judge panel unanimous unanimously decided that, yeah, that's not happening. So they refused to put an immediate injunction on student loan debt forgiveness as this case moves its way to trial because it is still gonna go to trial. Apparently the case has not been dismissed. Just their stupid request for an injunction saying nobody can get debt relief until we finish this. And the judges who were appointed, one would, one was appointed by Reagan, one was appointed by Biden and one was appointed by Trump. And all of them, good, bad, the ugly there. Look at it. Said like, Yeah, this doesn't make any sense. We're not, uh, we're, we're not gonna go with you. We're still gonna let you bring the case, right? You're gonna have your chance to come into a court and make these arguments in front of actual people. You know, people are gonna hear you say that this program is racist. Uh, we're gonna make you do that, but we're definitely not gonna give you the injunction to actually stop the program. So here's the thing, here's the thing. If the lawyers who filed this lawsuit were any good at all, and, and trust me, look, I'm saying that while I'm literally at a legal conference with like 1500 of the best and smartest and most successful, uh, plaintiff's lawyers in this country, right? The men and women, literally right outside this room right now, are the best in this country. And I'm looking at idiots like this, filing this lawsuit saying, Oh, it's racist against white people. Y'all are never gonna make it to this con conference that I'm at. I'm unfortunate to tell you that. Um, because here's the thing, and these lawyers know this. They, they have to know this. You cannot claim that it violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution because it doesn't specifically Direct more money to minorities. The only qualification as to who gets the money is based on your income. It is not based on race. And therefore your lawsuit should have been tossed with prejudice on the merits. But it wasn't. Maybe it's cuz these judges just wanna screw with this people and say, Hey, look, No, no. We want you to walk into a court and we want you with a straight face to make that argument in front of a jury. Maybe it's a form of punishment, maybe they just wanna see where it goes. But either way, this thing will eventually lose. And these lawyers, they'll get paid, but they're gonna have to actually walk into a court and try to claim that this program is racist. And that's gonna be a hell of a thing to watc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU3tiUW8nrc

The man seen in photographs from the Capitol Riot climbing over chairs with a handful of zip ties has been found guilty on all of the charges that he faced. The man had traveled to the Capitol from Nashville with his mother to attend the Stop The Steal rally, and the two were tried together after they had waived their right to a jury trial. They won't be sentenced until September, but given the charges they were found guilty of, it is almost a certainty that prison will be in their future, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains. Link - https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2023/04/18/jan-6-capitol-riot-nashvilles-zip-tie-guy-guilty-on-all-charges/70126910007/ Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWIEbibRcZav6xMLo9qWWw/join Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!: https://www.patreon.com/TheRingofFire Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/theringoffire Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RingofFireRadio Twitter: https://twitter.com/RingofFireMedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ringoffirenetwork/ *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. The infamous Capitol Rioter that was photographed, kind of jumping over a seat with a handful of zip ties has been found guilty along with his mother, who he brought with him to the Capitol Riot, because that's a good motherson thing to do, um, on every charge that he had faced. And he will be facing sentencing along with his mommy in the coming months. So here's what happened. Zip Tie guy at one point, you know, last year, maybe even the year before, had said, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't bring the zip ties. I had found them at the riot, you know, as I was just like, oh my God, somebody lost their zip ties, they're gonna want 'em back. I need to go find them to give them back their zip ties. Um, yeah, that's, that's definitely not what happened. And he and his mother had traveled from Nashville, Tennessee to go to the Capitol Riot, uh, actually, excuse me, sorry. They traveled from Nashville, Tennessee to go to the Stop the Steel rally. You know, we didn't know the riot was gonna happen at that point, unless of course you believed all the people online saying they were gonna do it. But there was definitely no indication they were going to DC specifically to riot. They were going to the Stop the steel rally, which then marched over to the Capitol, and those people then turned into the Capitol rioters. And this man, uh, Eric Monk and his wa uh, mother, sorry, Lisa Eisenhart also took part in that. But here's where things get a little, get a little messy. I'm gonna read this, this from the Tennesseean originally charged mainly with trespassing charges. The charges against Mu and Eisenhart expanded in October to include obstruction, conspiracy, disorderly conduct, and unauthorized entry. Mu was found guilty of additional charges for carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon on capitol grounds because he was armed with a taser. Both monk and Eisenhart waived their right to a jury trial and instead agreed to a stipulated bench trial, meaning a shortened trial before a judge, based on an agreed set of facts. So you didn't show up to start a riot, right? You didn't even know there was gonna be a riot. Why did you have a taser on you? Now, if we had a jury trial, that's the kind of question that we would have likely gotten an answer to, because I, I kind of want an answer to that. Why'd you have the zip ties? Why'd you have the taser? I mean, those are things like a kidnapper would do. Like you, you stunt 'em, then you zip tie 'em while they're down so that they can't get away. I mean, doesn't really take a genius to kind of draw that line to the equipment you had to what real criminals do. So I want better answers about why you had those items with. You also want some answers About why you decided to bring your mommy to Washington, DC with you. But I guess that's a conversation for a different day. Worst part about all this folks, as I mentioned, the sentencing is coming up in a couple months. It's not coming up till September. And in the meantime, these two have been, you know, released. They're free until sentencing. So, you know, go out, enjoy the summer, have a nice cookout on the 4th of July, come back on September 8th and I'll send you to jail like that. That to me is what's ridiculous. There should have been no release. We don't need to wait four or five months before we sentence these people. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCYMBeIUieQ