SCOTUS Tells Trump: Hands Off The Fed
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🗓️ 29 June 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, we got four more decisions from the nation’s highest court, and they were… well, confusing. For example, the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump can fire federal independent agency commissioners, but he can’t fire a governor at the Federal Reserve – which is also an independent agency. We also got a surprisingly good ruling on mail-in voting, and a separate victory for privacy and the Fourth Amendment. So is there any method to the seeming madness in the Supreme Court’s decisions this term? To find out, we spoke to Kate Shaw. She’s a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-host of Crooked Media’s Strict Scrutiny.
And in headlines, Trump says the U.S. will meet with Iran in Qatar on Tuesday for further negotiations, Russian President Vladimir Putin admits Russia is facing fuel shortages in its war with Ukraine, and the WHO names Europe the fastest-warming continent on the planet.
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| 0:00.0 | Trump has already been acting like he has the power that the Supreme Court declared today that he has. |
| 0:05.3 | But I do think that this declaration by the Supreme Court will further emboldened him if it's possible even to imagine a further emboldened Donald Trump. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is what today, the show that is looking forward to the end of the mind-bending stress of Supreme Court ruling season. So we can get back to the mind-bending stress of |
| 0:32.0 | midterm election season. And then before you know it, it'll be the mind-bending stress of |
| 0:36.7 | 2028 presidential election season. |
| 0:39.4 | Fun! |
| 0:40.9 | On today's show, we head back to the Supreme Court to find out if there's a method to their madness with strict scrutiny co-host Kate Shaw. |
| 0:48.0 | Before we get into all that, here's what we're following today, Monday, June 29th. |
| 0:54.3 | Iran has requested a meeting this week, so Special Envoy Whitkoff and Jared Kushner |
| 0:58.8 | will be flying to Doha for high-level meetings this week as we continue to discuss the |
| 1:03.6 | memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of those high-level talks will be the technical |
| 1:08.3 | talks. So as far as we're concerned, we're holding up our end of |
| 1:11.3 | the ceasefire. Violence will be met with violence. White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt is back |
| 1:16.6 | to running her mouth on Fox News. Yay, for literally no one. Trump said earlier today that a meeting |
| 1:23.4 | with Iran is set for Tuesday in Qatar. Yes, he said in a true social post, and yes, that post was in all caps. |
| 1:30.6 | Iran separately announced that it will send delegations to Qatar this week, though Tehran insisted |
| 1:35.2 | it has not agreed to meet with the U.S. quote, at any level, after attacks across the Persian Gulf |
| 1:40.3 | over the weekend challenged negotiations to end the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted for the first time on Sunday that Russia is facing |
| 1:47.8 | fuel shortages in its war with Ukraine. Putin told state-run media that Ukrainian attacks, |
| 1:53.2 | quote, on our infrastructure facilities do create problems. That is obvious. Still, Russia appears |
| 1:58.8 | undeterred. According to Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, |
| 2:02.7 | Russia launched another deadly missile and drone strike today. He called the attacks, quote, |
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