Some More News - Even More News: The Supreme Court Just Gave Trump Even More Power

Episode Date: June 29, 2026

Hi. On today's episode of Even More News, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan discuss the Monday Supreme Court rulings and weigh in on JD Vance's supposed admiration of Richard Nixon. Also, join us tomorrow night LIVE as we celebrate(?) America's birthday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1bMBg7_QbsPATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/join#ElonMusk #Trump #SCOTUSChapters:0:00 - Introduction/Supreme Court Rulings18:35 - JD Vance's Lies About NixonSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hi, on today's episode, we talk about Monday's drop of Supreme Court rulings and how J.D. Vant really just admires Richard Nixon? Guys having a renaissance. Hey, hello, welcome back to Even More News, the first, the only news podcast. My name is Katie Stoll. Everything you said, Katie, hello, that's your name, first and only podcast. Welcome, hello. I agree with Hello, if you said that, I forget. Hi, I'm Cody. Hi, Cody.

And Jonathan is also here. Wow, how about that for once? Hi. Couldn't agree more. More. Shall we talk about my missing trash some more for the audience? The people are clamoring. No, you know what?

Wait, the people are clamoring to find out about your trash, yeah. A bag of trash went missing. I don't know where it went. End of story. This big truck came and picked it up. What do you want with this? Before the truck came, Jonathan. Making so much noise, grabbing the garbage from outside my home, and just hauling it away.

Hmm. Interesting. What are you guys going to do with that? Speaking of bags of trash, we've got some SCOTUS rulings to discuss this morning. So, yeah, I'm going to do them out of order because I'm going to go with, like, they save their big one for last, you know? They do all these dramatics. Tomorrow morning, by the way. is when we're getting birthright citizenship ruling

and bans on trans athletes and states. So we're going to just really steal yourself for whatever that is. But they build a lot of suspense for the big ones for some reason. It's a big week. Yeah, they should just. The big day is this week.

Yes. But at any rate, the first one we've got today is Trump v. Slaughter. The court ruled six to three that Trump can fire a commissioner from the Federal Trade Commission, basically for whatever reasons he wants, this goes against and really completely overturns a 90-year precedent

called Humphreys Executor, which said that the president can't just fire whoever he wants because those agencies were created by Congress and were, quote, quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative. So even though they're part of the executive branch, Congress created them and decides what they do. do. So Congress kind of controls how this goes. And it's the executive's job to execute the laws of Congress.

You know, how our country's supposed to work. And he's like, kill them. He chooses to see execute as like an execution. Yeah. Katie, good one. Basically. It's good. And. Thank you. And the name of the commissioner who is gone is Rebecca Slaughter.

she was given no reason for her firing, even though the law that created the FTC said the president can only fire the commissioner for, quote, inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. So this is a big win for unitary executive theory saying that like everything under the executive branch, like the president gets control over,

he can do whatever he wants. And it kind of ends the idea that there are civil servants who work in these agencies for years, keeping their head down, just doing the work of government. because they are now political agencies that the president can just fire everyone at will

and put in his cronies. It seems really, really, really, really bad. Kind of, kind of, kind of puts a nail in the coffin of the conservative claim that they want to limit executive power. Oh, the small government stuff? And Obama was a tyrant and things of that nature. Kind of kind of laughs in the face of their position

on executive power completely. curious how they will react with a different administration and a different person making I know how they'll react choices yeah right this is outrageous because with this ruling they also Roberts wrote this one and he wrote the ruling in Trump v. Cook and they put them out together so we already know John Roberts is very good at finding little wrinkles of why this thing actually doesn't apply to a slightly different thing. And he said that Trump cannot fire a governor on the Federal Reserve Board. That's Lisa Cook.

This was a five to four ruling. So Roberts and Kavanaugh switched to join the liberals to say no. He can't fire someone on the Fed board because of the history. There's a history of central bank independence, even though there's also a history. of other agency independence, but there's a history of Central Bank independence and Central Banks carve out a special role in our government

and they're funded differently than the other agencies and trails out. I'm surprised that the ruling doesn't literally go and furthermore ellipsies, ellipses. So that's like good news

that he can't fire her, but it's also... There's a little slice of good news, but it's also very confusing and weird and the rest of the news is bad. Yeah, which even Clarence Thomas pointed out in his dissent to that one. I thought we were doing this. Yeah, he's like, he says, although the court expresses concern that the president

removed a board member for the first time in the Federal Reserve's 11-year history, it expresses no such concern that it today upholds an injunction against the president's removal of an executive order for the first time in the Constitution's 237-year history. He's basically like calling out Roberts bullshit. And like, I guess we're glad the bullshit exists for this thing. We wished it didn't exist at all. And these agencies were as Congress created them. It's very frustrating because any changes that may be made to the Supreme Court.

It's not on anybody's radar. It would seem not really in any real way to make significant changes to the Supreme Court. And this is just who we have. This is just, it's just, I mean, it seems like it should be a prerequisite for running for president in 2028 is what are you going to do about these guys? Yeah, we'll see if that becomes any sort of a topic of conversation. What are you going to do? Pack me. Packed court. They seem. They seem very unafraid of, they don't seem that they are particularly concerned about a Democratic president. like ruining their gig.

Yeah. No, they don't. They don't seem concerned about that at all. I also want to point out before we move on that Bill Pulte is the head of like six things now. He's like the director of federal housing agency and also is acting director of national intelligence, I think. Wild. Lots of overlap there.

Right. But is he in a cult? Trump's He's in a cult He's in one cult He's not in multiple cults the way Yeah Then we're good Tulsi Gabbard

That's that's an improvement I think we're doing pretty good Pulte posted As I have repeatedly said I believe Lisa Cook Will be indicted for mortgage fraud Because if you forgot He's the mortgage fraud

Yeah yeah He's the bulldog To get them Tiny hats Go get them And they like All those other cases have not gone anywhere, but he thinks this one will.

So what the court said is that like, he's got to say that. Yeah. Got to keep saying it. And then you can be really angry when it doesn't happen saying, this is shocking. The activist courts. Yeah, they were like, well, he can't fire her for something she allegedly did before she was on the Fed board. Like Roberts really was like, this doesn't fall. This isn't by the book right here with this one.

But Pulte still thinks, like, ah, this, this vindictive prosecution is really going to go forward. This will stand, yeah. Right after Adam Schifty Schiff gets arrested and whoever else did the mortgage fraud stuff. And then? Obama. Yeah. I would, I have no evidence, but I would say that Donald Trump has absolutely committed mortgage fraud, a lot of it. I mean, of everybody in the government, if I had to get.

Yes, the top of my list would be him. Do you get like a traditional mortgage when you buy like Mar-a-Lago or something? I assume, like, he probably doesn't have the money sitting around in cash. He borrows it from somewhere. But how does the, how does that work? 30-year fixed rate, 50, does he get one of those 50-year mortgages? He's still paying off Mar-a-Lago. Let's see.

He's looking at the rate. Does Trump have a mortgage for property taxes? I already bought this place. Now I owe more. You should stop foregoing his salary. I do want to, like, back up before we move on to the other ruling. And I hinted at this earlier. But, like, Congress created the agencies and said, here's what the agencies do.

And it's in the executive branch because it's the president's job to execute the laws that Congress passes because the president doesn't create laws, right? Like the very high level, that's how this country works. It's unclear to me, maybe a lawyer can explain it to me, that if the way they created, if the way that Congress created the FTC, however long ago, was unconstitutional, does it mean that the president can do what he wants with that agency, or shouldn't it mean that that agency doesn't exist? And needs to be created in a way that should.

I don't know. Like, why are, is every agency abolished now? Because Congress created it with authority that they didn't have. Or they didn't actually have or they share. Yeah. Yeah, but we're telling, you can't tell the president how to do stuff. Yes, you can. That's like the point.

That's the point. That's part of it. It's a big part of it. Lawyers sound off. We do have some good news? Yeah, they, you know, the sprinkle of sugar. So they ruled five to four that mail-in ballots, late arriving mail-in ballots, as long as they are postmarked by election day, can still arrive later in states that allow them.

This is based on it. This is upholding a Mississippi law. But of course, we know that late arriving mail ballots are also a very big deal. A bit contentious these days. This is good news. This isn't just a sprinkle. I think this is good news. No, this is.

It absolutely is. Unquestionably, Roberts and Barrett this time are the two who joined the liberals. This anti-Prat court is disgusting. They refuse to look at the obvious fraud that's all over the place because vote. vote. And sure I knew about it. Yes, I knew that the votes would be trickling in after the election day. Yes, we all knew about it. Yes, we tweeted about it. Yes, when it happened, I pretended it was fake. Something about the Supreme Court tells me that they love, I don't know, homelessness or something. I don't know. I hate that guy. Yeah, I mean, they're also probably just unfamiliar with him.

They're not exactly fans of the hills. You know, it's a long time ago, but still, I think it was past there. It may be in Barrett's era. this is great. This is great news. It doesn't counteract the other bad news, but this is good. This is good, especially given what we're heading into and all the attempts to strip away voting rights and protections from people. So yeah, you can still send them those ballots. They make up a pretty small share of the vote total in all of these states. But like some of these margins are not exactly we see these margins in elections all the time. There's a graphic that we can put on screen that has what percentage of the 2024 presidential

vote was received late. And it's like Illinois 1.9 percent, Nevada. 0.8 percent, New Jersey, 0.5 percent. Alaska 4.1 percent, which could be important this November. That makes a whole lot of sense, too. That's where you'd want to vote by now. And it takes longer. It's too cold.

And Nevada point, like Nevada, you can totally see a presidential race being within 0.8%. So that can be important. Obviously, Trump hates them because they tend to be, I don't know about Alaska, but in the continental U.S., they tend to be more blue, those ballots. So it's good that they decided not to make it illegal. Alito's whole thing is like, election day, says it right there in the name of the day. Also, this would have, it's unclear what would have happened with military ballots if this would also have applied to military ballots, which they like. People living overseas that, you know, vote absentee. That's good. They rejected E. Jean Carroll's case or Trump's case that he wants to fucking.

Yeah, this is good news. And then as we've already alluded to, tomorrow will be the real, the real cliffhanger. The real season finale verdicts will come in tomorrow. Stephen Miller Day. And like we expect them to go a certain way. One yes and one, oh, no. And you know what? I don't even want to say it. Yeah, we don't know.

Well, we'll see. What's on? There's a truth social post from Donald Trump celebrating the, his ability to fire anyone now. How does you feel about not being able to fire the Fed chair, though? Has he commented on that? Has he commented on E. Jean Carroll? He's commented on everything, and I can read these one at a time,

him being like happy and also I hate you. God, this website fucking sucks. It's a terrible website. Every single time I go here. God, piece of shit. Website. I mean, so he used the mail-in ballot loss to say that we have to pass the Save America Act. It's the only way to save the country, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Then he says, surprisingly, the source. Supreme Court declined to review a fake case brought against me by a woman I never met. Decades old celebrity photo line standing with her husband. Does not count. I will continue to fight the blah, blah, blah. He owes her millions of dollars. Just pay her the money, man. You're stealing billions from us.

The Cook lawsuit having to do with her suitability and sitting on the board of the Federal Reserve was sent back by the Supreme Court on a strictly procedural basis. We will take appropriate action immediately to make sure that someone who has committed wrongdoing will not be making vital decisions concerning the welfare of the United States of America. So I'm sure he's just like arrest her immediately. You got to arrest Lisa Cook. Just go get her. Go get her. Um, and then, but he didn't call the court completely a legitimate and stupid because they gave him something he liked and he wrote to show the importance of the slaughter case. 90 years of precedent has been completely and unequivocally overruled, greatly increasing presidential power at a time when it is most needed. That's our argument. That's, yeah, well, I know. It works for him. It's kind of, it's pretty wild. I mean, no, it's not. It's completely expected. but like just being like, yeah, we're going to blow up the Supreme Court and I can do whatever I want. Again, I think maybe this sort of laughs in the face of the conservative movement's position on the executive power and maybe him celebrating a massive expansion of presidential power on his own website is maybe indicative of that.

It's scary. It is scary to think about what this means or what this could mean moving forward. I already mentioned don't they care about when there's a new administration when there's another party in charge no, what he's shaking his head? No, I don't think they're concerned and why aren't they concerned

that concerns me We'll ever tell And I don't want to be a fearmongery fear mongerer but someone still might trash Lisa Cook perhaps Someone should look into that.

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We will be streaming and talking about. about all things, news and America, 250. But before we leave today, we would like to watch a clip. Yeah, it's true. Of our favorite VP. Yeah, we're talking about the expansion of executive power and sort of the implication that Trump can kind of get away with whatever the hell he wants.

And maybe we watch this clip of his vice president. Maybe. Kind of talking about that too. He's very, very red in this clip. So we were talking about this a little bit backstage, but I'm actually fascinated by Nixon as a character in history. I think that his historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, but I think deservedly so.

As I joked with Robert backstage, if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy. And by the way, If you look at the story of how the deep state took down Richard Nixon, it's not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions, tried to do to Donald Trump and the First Trump administration. There is a parallel. I also just, at a personal level, you know, young senator, vice president, writes some best-selling books, is hated by the media.

it kind of sounds like J.D. Vance. So I'm a little, you know, I've always liked, I've always liked Richard Nixon, but so that's a lie. I just, obviously, he's a liar and he's full of shit. No, that he's always liked Richard Nixon. He famously has a text about Donald Trump saying, either Donald Trump is going to be America's Hitler or an asshole like Nixon, and both of them were framed as being bad things to be. He's not always been a fan. of Nixon. Cody's showing up with the receipts. At one point, he thought he fucking sucked and was an asshole that he didn't want to be president.

He's a liar. He is not wrong, though, that he is somewhat similar to Nixon in that Nixon, Nixon was like an impressive guy and made his way up to be in this elite group of people that he never thought, like, respected him, and he never got, like, what was due him. and I feel like that's Vance where he's like I wrote a bestselling novel. I'm the vice, I'm the youngest vice president or whatever. Yet they still hate me.

Ever and everyone still hates me. So let me get like a grudge presidency where I just get in there just to like screw everyone and grumble and you know, if God willing be forced to resign. The point like, oh. In disgrace.

We did. We did Nixon dirty man. These days, none of that would have held any water. It wouldn't have even been a scandal. That's the problem, dude. That is the fucking problem. This is what people... There's no normalcy anymore.

There's no sense of decency. There's no right or wrong. It's all just this huge cluster fuck. And it is a problem that major news stories break. And there isn't enough oxygen in the room for people to pay attention to it. It's not because our standards have changed. It's because we're overwhelmed and desensitized to the barrage of news. Or I guess.

guess half the country their standards have changed. Yeah. But only with this president. Because again, if it was any other administration and if it was a Democrat in office, all of these scandals that they pretend are nothing burgers that just blow over within 12 hours would be front page every day. You would never let any of it go. They're still talking about Hunter Biden. Give me a fucking break. And Nixon having a renaissance, what do you talking who's who's out here praising nixon all of a sudden nix are for you j d vans the right wing freaks that he follows on the right wing freaks and i want to guess it's not because nixon created the EPA no it's not it's because of the it's because he's an asshole and he land they like

him um yeah it's absurd um it's uh very frustrating obviously uh what a stupid guy for the little fraud guy um i no one never does this uh i certainly not in that environment but But when he says stuff like that, like, yeah, like, you know, what took down Nixon? That would be like a 12, like a 12 hour news story. Okay. And is that good? Do you think that's good? You're just saying that it's true.

And you're right. It would be a very, like it's a blip. You're right. Is that good? Obviously, he thinks it's good because it helps him in his administration get away with more stuff. And it's the entire goal. Yeah, he smiled about it. He's a little weasel man.

And, but it's, you. you know, the ban and flood this is, like, this is the effect of what they wanted to do. They wanted to create this environment where, yeah, you flood the zone with as many stories as possible, you overwhelm everybody. And then, years later, you can be like, man, what Nixon did, not that big a deal, actually, would have been just like a blip. And maybe we should do more of that kind of stuff. It's the deep state. It's the people who didn't like him in the FBI that were, say had the gall to look into it after he like broke into the DNC

and had the CIA cover it up. He and his valid grievances, you know. Yeah. So, yeah, he's a putts. Yeah. But he's our puts. J.K., not my puts. Not my puts.

Your books suck and I think you stole my fucking trash, J.D. and I want it back. Well, it's because it's filled with his book. He's like, I need copies of this to sign at the Mountain Barnes & Noble. Sorry, I just need it, I need it. I don't know if I've mentioned it twice already, but we've got a live stream Tuesday night.

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