The Supreme Court has ruled that the President has wide-ranging power to fire appointees of these independent, what were supposed to be independent bodies. The ruling is drawing the expected alarm across legacy media, drawing the ire of the left. Plus, a new weight loss supplement that could help you lose weight. All that and more on today s AM Update.
00:05:37.780It's been going on for almost 100 years they've been working on this.
00:05:42.640And, you know, that it comes down at my term is a very great honor.
00:05:45.940But it bestows additional powers, or maybe the same power on the president.
00:05:50.380The president has the right to do this.
00:05:52.220The court, however, drawing a more clear boundary around the Federal Reserve.
00:05:56.820In a separate 5-4 ruling, the justices allowing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, whom Trump
00:06:02.380also fired, to remain in office while her underlying lawsuit against the administration
00:06:08.020plays out, refusing the administration's request to let the president remove her immediately.
00:06:14.080The unusual majority crossing ideological lines with Chief Justice John Roberts and
00:06:18.540Trump appointee Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the high court's three liberal justices. The court
00:06:24.620treating the Federal Reserve differently from the agencies covered by the slaughter ruling,
00:06:29.160acknowledging its longstanding protection from direct political control. President Trump
00:06:34.620attempting to fire Cook over allegations she claimed homes in both Michigan and Georgia as her0.78
00:06:40.340primary residence within a short span of time, potentially allowing her to secure more favorable
00:06:46.440mortgage terms. Cook disputing the allegations, which involve mortgage documents, she signed
00:06:51.900before joining the Federal Reserve. Cook welcoming the ruling as a victory in a statement,
00:06:57.100quote, I am grateful for this decision, not for my sake, but for the sake of the American people,
00:07:02.060whose economic well-being depends on a central bank that answers to its mission,
00:07:06.480not political intimidation. Justice Kavanaugh, though, noting in a concurring opinion, quote,
00:07:12.640Today's interim ruling does not decide whether the president may lawfully remove Governor Cook
00:07:17.780for cause, end quote. That issue has yet to play out in the lower courts.
00:07:24.360President Trump increasing pressure on Republicans in Congress to pass the
00:07:28.440Save America Act, following yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling preserving
00:07:32.900state's ability to count some mail-in ballots received after Election Day.
00:07:38.080The 5-4 decision upholding a Mississippi law that counts ballots postmarked by Election Day
00:07:44.180and received within the following five business days.
00:07:47.980Justice Amy Coney Barrett writing for the majority in a coalition that crossed the court's usual ideological lines.
00:07:54.420Joined by fellow conservative Chief Justice John Roberts and liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson.
00:08:02.620Meantime, the Save America Act is a sweeping election integrity overhaul, requiring proof
00:08:08.360of citizenship to register for federal elections, photo ID to vote, and tighter limits on mail-in
00:08:14.620ballots, one that lacks majority support in the Senate.
00:08:18.960President Trump arguing yesterday during an unrelated Oval Office event, the High Court's
00:08:23.660decision makes passage of the legislation even more urgent.
00:08:27.020What do you make of the Supreme Court ruling today in regards to the mail-in ballots and what comes next for the SAVE Act after today's ruling?
00:08:34.920Well, because of the mail-in ballot ruling, which was a little bit surprising, gives people more time to vote illegally, let's say.
00:08:44.060But the SAVE Act is even more important, and that's the right.
00:08:48.580You have to be a citizen of our country.
00:08:51.540OK, you have to show you're a citizen of our country called citizenship.
00:08:54.220it, voter ID by photo, photo voter ID, and no mail-in ballots, unless you're in the military
00:09:02.180disabled, you're ill or you're away, or even on a vacation, we're being very open about
00:09:11.360But the ruling, which a lot of people were waiting for, that was a ruling that was, I
00:09:16.620think it was very detrimental to honest elections.
00:09:19.760The measure currently stalled in the Senate, where it lacks the 60 votes needed to overcome a Democratic filibuster under existing rules just to get a vote,
00:09:29.700and doesn't even have the 50 GOP senators required to pass the bill were it to get past the filibuster.
00:09:37.000The president maintains he would have the votes if the filibuster went away.
00:09:41.760Who do you see as the biggest hurdle to getting this across the finish line?
00:09:45.300Well, it's held up in the Senate. And frankly, if you terminated the filibuster, you just need 50 votes and we have 53. And then you have J.D. So the Democrats are going to terminate the filibuster. But if you did reconciliation, you could do it with 50 votes. I mean, the best would be to terminate the filibuster.
00:10:05.860President Trump yesterday naming Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins
00:10:11.140of Maine, Tom Tillis of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, and Mitch McConnell of
00:10:16.120Kentucky among those opposed to the measure. He can only afford to lose three. Mr. Trump reiterating
00:10:23.160he has little interest in any other legislation until the SAVE Act is passed. Earlier this month,
00:10:29.040the president canceling a public signing ceremony for bipartisan housing legislation in an effort
00:10:34.580to keep the focus on the Save America Act.
00:10:37.620Asked yesterday what he now plans to do with the housing bill,
00:19:26.880These are gathering spaces for queer people, especially gay men,
00:19:30.020at a time when being out in public could get you fired, could get you beat, could get you arrested.
00:19:36.040These are places of refuge, and I think it's important to acknowledge0.96
00:19:39.520that these establishments were even picketed by signs that said AIDS kill and avoid gay bathhouses.
00:19:45.180Council member Robin Wansley, who also voted to remove the ban, explaining why this repeal is vital to the city.
00:19:53.580I think it's important to address this, the weaponization of hypersexualization of our queer communities as a means to also bring forward repressive policies that limits their existence and their ability to be in community with each other.
00:20:09.080The idea that this policy has been repeatedly framed as facilitation of brothel or sexual activity as if folks just want to go out and have sex, which, you know what?
00:20:20.260Maybe that might help actually bring more joy into our city.
00:20:26.440But to say that this policy is essentially the facilitation of legalizing brothels is not what's happening.
00:20:34.380More joy. Bans on public sex are repressive, you see.
00:20:39.620Mayor Frye signing the bill into law yesterday and posting to X,
00:20:42.760quote, Minneapolis stands with our LGBTQIA plus neighbors.