It's Wednesday, October 8th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. The show applauding

the late Bob Ross for still making an impact on public television 30 years after his passing.

30 paintings by the Happy Trees enthusiast will soon go up for auction in multiple cities to help

with the cost of programming for public television stations in the rural

areas hit hardest by Trump's federal funding cuts.

The auctions are expected to garner more than a million dollars.

On today's show, more terrible news for furloughed federal workers. And the first National Guard

troops sent to Chicago by President Donald Trump arrive at a nearby Army training center. But let's start

with the Supreme Court. You know, those nine lifetime appointees who get to decide how we live our lives.

The Supreme Court term started on Monday, a term that, to me, seems centered on

one big, glaring question. Can the president of the United States do pretty much whatever he wants?

Okay, yes. The court will have to answer a few other questions, too. On Tuesday, the court heard

arguments in Childs v. Salazar, a case focused on whether conversion talk therapy for minors

is protected by the First Amendment. And based on the questions the conservative justices asked

Colorado Solicitor General Shannon Stevenson, the attorney defending the state's ban on conversion

therapy for minors, it looks like the court's answer will be yes. Here's Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito questioning Stevenson,

who had noted previously that medical consensus held that conversion therapy was dangerous and ineffective.

I mean, the medical consensus is usually very reasonable and it's very important.

But have there been times when the medical consensus has been politicized, has been taken over by ideology?

We have no facts about that in this case, but I wouldn't disagree that that's possible.

And I think that's a really—

Isn't there a fact that it's happened in the past?

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