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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Today we are joined by AEI's Adam White to try and make sense of the Supreme Court decisions striking down President Trump's executive order on Birthright Citizenship, upholding state bans on transgender athletes, and overturning limits on political party-coordinated spending. Plus, we celebrate Mel Brooks on his 100th birthday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the best.

0:09.0

Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Tuesday, June 30th, 2026. I'm John Pott Hortz, the editor of Commentary Magazine. With me, as always, Executive Editor A. Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, Abe.

0:33.6

Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mendel. Hi, Seth. Hi, John.

0:37.8

Washington Free Beacon editor Eliana Johnson.

0:40.2

Hi, Eliana.

0:41.4

Hi, John.

0:42.3

And joining us today as ever, whenever we have momentous Supreme Court decisions and at other, on other occasions, AEIs Adam White.

0:51.3

Hi, Adam, from the North Woods of Wisconsin.

0:53.8

Therefore, if you're watching on video,

0:55.5

you will see Adam is on an iPhone, which he is holding somewhere near his face uncomfortably,

1:02.1

but he needs to be here to help us. Hi, Adam. John, I was going to say this is my undisclosed location,

1:07.7

but you just disclosed it. Well, North Florida, Wisconsin is a very, very, very,

1:12.6

I'm going to be there next week, so I'm now revealing my undisclosed location. Good to be here, John.

1:18.9

Yeah. Okay. Adam, momentous day at the Supreme Court. Three major decisions, or maybe four. Okay,

1:24.6

so just to go with the headline,

1:29.2

headline is that the administration's effort to enact an executive order

1:34.4

overturning the principle or the policy of birthright citizenship

1:38.9

has been rejected by the court in a very interesting ideological pattern.

1:47.3

You might call it the center left court has ruled that birthright citizenship should stand and that the three. So that means that

1:55.8

of the conservatives, Barrett has agreed with the decision that I don't think we've been able to read yet.

2:02.8

And Kavanaugh has agreed with the finding, but seems to have problems with the logic of the decision.

2:10.4

And for different reasons, Thomas Alito and, who am I, Gorsuch, descent.

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