It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

Today, Ellie Mistal will join us, Justice Correspondent for the Nation magazine.

Always a spicy guest.

He will critique the Supreme Court

for the latest winning streak they've given or seen about to give, President Trump and the authors

of Project 2025. Some of these cases you know about some, you may not, Ellie Mistal in our second

segment today. Also, the emerging strange bedfellows politics of AI. President Trump,

you've probably heard this, wants to ban states from having their own AI regulations, but

approximately, oh, 50 states seem to want that right. And your stories and feelings about self-checkout.

You know, an article in the Atlantic asks why some

people use it, even when the line for human cashiers is shorter. Are you one of those people?

We'll talk about self-checkout near the end of the show. But we begin with our weekly Wednesday

check-in for this month on the Mamdani transition, plus some other

local politics with WNYC and Gothamist political reporter Elizabeth Kim. There are so many stories

we could get to. We'll see how many we can. The mayor elect further clarifying his position

on homeless encampments, his decision to actually move into Gracie Mansion, not every mayor does,

his meeting this week with real estate executives about affordable housing that may have been

more friendly than you might have imagined, why his police commissioner, Jessica Tisch,

apologized for something her brother said about Mayor-elect Mom Dani and more.

But if he was saying something not nice, we have Vice President J.D. Vance

complimenting Mom D. Doni, really, in an NBC news interview last week,

this hasn't gotten as much press as when Trump had the very friendly news conference,

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