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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Trump-Musk Divorce / The Supreme Court's Busy June

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump and Elon Musk part ways on the GOP's big beautiful bill, but as their spat turns personal, how might it affect the legislative debate in the Senate and the package's political prospects? Plus, the Supreme Court issues unanimous rulings on so-called reverse discrimination and whether Wisconsin can deny a religious tax exemption to Catholic Charities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Americans love using their credit cards, the most secure and hassle-free way to pay.

0:04.0

But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill.

0:08.0

This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed,

0:13.0

allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards.

0:18.0

Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price.

0:22.0

Tell Congress to guard your card because Americans lose when politicians choose. Learn more at

0:28.0

guard.com.

0:32.5

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:40.6

The Supreme Court issues for unanimous rulings, including a couple touching on culture war issues with majority

0:47.1

opinions for the court by Justice Katanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor.

0:53.4

Meantime, the Elon Musk and Donald Trump divorce starts to get ugly with Musk calling for the

1:00.8

impeachment of President Trump and his replacement by Vice President J.D. Vance, what sparked this

1:06.6

feud and will it affect or potentially derail the one big beautiful bill that is now sitting

1:13.0

in the Senate? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my

1:19.3

colleague on the editorial page, columnist Kim Strassel. Happy Friday to you, Kim. On Thursday,

1:25.8

there was a slew of rulings from the Supreme Court trying to clear up

1:31.2

and clean out some of these cases on its docket as we get toward the middle of the summer here,

1:37.4

the July break that the Supreme Court generally takes before its next term begins. And out of these rulings, a couple of them that grabbed my eye.

1:48.4

One of them was a case, Kim, on so-called reverse discrimination.

1:53.8

This is a state employee in Ohio who says that she's straight and she had a gay boss and she was passed over for a couple of

2:03.8

less qualified gay job candidates. And to be clear, the state of Ohio denies that it

2:09.7

discriminated against her, says that the supervisor did not even know the sexual orientations

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