Hey, everybody, it's Alison Gill, co-host of the Daily Beans podcast. You know me as Mueller, she wrote. A lot went down this week in the news, and I'm going to do my best to connect it all for you here on the Midas Touch Network. So for the weekending September 14th, 2025, this is the breakdown.

I'd like to start the show by congratulating my friend Eging Carroll for winning in court yet again.

This time, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump's bid to overturn the $83 million judgment against him.

The unanimous opinion said, quote, Trump has failed to identify any grounds that would warrant reconsidering our prior holding

on presidential immunity. We also conclude the district court did not err in any of the challenged

rulings and that the jury's damages awards are fair and reasonable. Now, I assume Trump is going

to appeal this one to the Supreme Court. And on any other planet, I would be able to say with confidence that the justices would

uphold this verdict.

But the fact that it has to do with presidential immunity, even though his defamation and

the rape happened when he was out of office, that immunity part might just be enough to get

them to take the case up.

So we'll see.

We'll cover it here.

Now, speaking of the Supreme Court,

and I know this feels like a decade ago, but it was this week. The conservative justices rubber

stamped racial profiling by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. As we know,

California sued to stop racial profiling, and the lower courts blocked ICE from doing it in a well-reasoned ruling.

But again, using the emergency docket with little to no explanation, the Supreme Court is going to allow racial profiling to continue for now.

And Justice Sotomayor wrote a blistering dissent saying, quote,

we should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speak Spanish, and appears to work at a low-wage job.

Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.

Now, the Supreme Court also used the emergency docket this week to withhold foreign aid funds.

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