Will The Supreme Court Stop Trump?

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt one of its first blows to President Donald Trump’s aggressive agenda to reshape how the federal government works. It was a minor decision: The justices rejected an emergency request from the administration to keep frozen some $2 billion in foreign aid payments. Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three liberals, raising questions about how the court will handle the waves of litigation crashing against the White House with Trump back in office. Jessica Levinson, a constitutional law professor at Loyola Law School, helps us read the SCOTUS tea leaves. Later in the show, Missouri Farmers Union Vice President Richard Oswald joins us to talk about how Trump's tariffs will hurt farmers. And in headlines: The Trump administration puts a one-month pause on auto tariffs for Canada and Mexico, some fired federal workers go back to work, and climate change might be making allergy season longer.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, March 6th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waday.
0:06.5	The show that always thinks it's kind of funny when President Donald Trump complains about someone else being rude.
0:13.5	Like, come on, let's just be real here. On today's show, House Republicans want to punish Representative Al Green for interrupting the president during his joint session address.
0:34.5	And some federal workers are getting their jobs back, hopefully permanently.
0:38.8	But let's start with the Supreme Court. You know, those nine unelected justices who, for many
0:44.2	reasons, have a whole lot of power over our daily lives. Fun and cool, I say. If you talk to any
0:50.6	number of conservatives, they'll tell you that the right-leaning justices on the Supreme
0:54.6	Court, Justice Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney-Barratt, Samuel Alito, Chief Justice John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh,
1:01.5	and Neil Gorsuch are supposed to be originalists, upholding a textual understanding of the Constitution.
1:07.9	As Barrett said during her confirmation hearings back in 2020, in her view, that implies that the meaning of the Constitution doesn't change over the Constitution. As Barrett said during her confirmation hearings back in 2020, in her view,
1:12.1	that implies that the meaning of the Constitution doesn't change over time. But if you ask Donald
1:17.2	Trump, well, you might get the view that maybe the job of the Supreme Court is to do what he
1:22.1	wants them to do. Listen to how he thanks Chief Justice John Roberts like an orange mafioso following his
1:28.5	joint address to Congress on Tuesday night.
1:30.5	Thank you again.
1:32.0	Thank you again.
1:33.2	Won't forget.
1:34.1	So good.
1:35.2	So good, sir.
1:37.9	Did you catch the won't forget?
1:41.3	Huh.
1:42.3	And yeah, the Supreme Court has ruled in Trump's favor a bunch of times. Remember the
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