Hi there, everyone. Happy Monday. It's 4 o'clock in the East. It is not too often these days that we come on the air with any good news coming out of the United States Supreme Court. But today, the high court handed Donald Trump, a trio of big losses. The first, a win for the defenders of democracy.

The Supreme Court ruled that Mississippi mailing ballots

that are postmarked by election day,

but that arrive within five days,

still should be counted as state law allows.

It is a major blow to Donald Trump's all-out war

against mail-in voting. Mark Elias, who argued that case,

will join us momentarily. The second ruling today declares that Donald Trump does not have the

power to fire a target of his ire that would be Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from the central

bank, at least for now. And thirdly, the one that's likely to sting Donald Trump the most,

the court declined to take up a case by Donald Trump

to review the $5 million civil judgment that he sexually abused and defamed,

the writer E. Jean Carroll,

which means that the jury's verdict still stands,

and Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll, the $ that the jury's verdict still stands and Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll,

the $5 million he owes her plus interest. Now, that was the good news from the Supreme Court,

and we'll get into all three of those significant wins in a second. But because this is the Supreme

Court, that's not the whole story. There's also a major setback as another ruling threw away

91 years of precedent. In a 6-3 ruling on Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court gave Donald Trump

the authority to fire most of the government's independent regulators. This shifts even more power

toward Donald Trump and the executive branch.

The specific case deals with Donald Trump's March 2025 firing of Rebecca Slaughter,

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