The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show BONUS: Trump Revokes Student Visas for Chinese Nationals, Transgender Athlete Policy Shift in CA, Take It Down Act Targeting Deepfakes Signed & ABA Barred from Judicial Nominations
On this episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz:
🇨🇳 Chinese Student Visas and Espionage
- The Trump administration announced plans to revoke student visas for Chinese nationals suspected of ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
- Emphasis on intellectual property theft and espionage concerns.
- Senator Cruz supports aggressive vetting of foreign students and recounts his past efforts to shut down Confucius Institutes in U.S. universities.
🏃♀️ California’s Transgender Athlete Policy Shift
- California revised its policy to protect biological female athletes in track and field.
- The change allows girls who were displaced by transgender athletes to still qualify for championships.
- Cruz and Ferguson interpret this as a retreat by the Left and a win for conservative values.
📱 Promotion of Patriot Mobile
- A segment promoting Patriot Mobile, a conservative Christian cell phone provider.
- Highlights its support for First and Second Amendment rights, veterans, and pro-life causes.
📜 Take It Down Act
- Senator Cruz discusses the Take It Down Act, recently signed into law by President Trump.
- The law criminalizes the distribution of non-consensual explicit images, including deepfakes.
- Inspired by real cases, including that of Elliston Barry, a teenage girl victimized by deepfake imagery.
- The law also mandates tech platforms to remove such content upon request.
⚖️ American Bar Association (ABA) and Judicial Nominations
- The Trump administration removed the ABA’s special role in vetting judicial nominees.
- Cruz criticizes the ABA as a biased, left-wing organization.
- Example given of a nominee unable to answer basic constitutional questions, yet rated “qualified” by the ABA.
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