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Today the Supreme Court handed down four major decisions, and for once, most of them landed on the right side of history. I want to be clear though: I’m not popping champagne. When “winning” just means preserving something that should have never been threatened in the first place, the celebration feels hollow.
Let's start with the easy one. Today the Supreme Court declined to hear the E. Jean Carroll case, leaving the $5 million civil judgment against Trump for sexual assault and defamation exactly where it stands. The Court opted not to get involved. Trump's team pushed to get it there, and today they got their answer: no. That verdict is final. Whether Trump actually pays Carroll is a whole other conversation.
Then there was the Federal Reserve case — a genuine win. The Court blocked Trump’s attempt to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on the back of a fabricated mortgage fraud claim cooked up by Bill Pulte. The independence of the Fed matters. Kavanaugh, of all people, put it plainly: gutting removal protections would shatter the Fed’s independence. The Court agreed, 5-4.
The mail-in ballot ruling was also the right call, but I struggle to frame it as a victory. The idea that we’re relieved the Supreme Court didn’t strip Americans of their right to have postmarked ballots counted is a damning statement about where we are as a country. Still — it takes one weapon out of Trump’s hands ahead of 2026.
Now the bad one: the 6-3 ruling giving Trump broad authority to fire members of independent federal agencies. Roberts wrote the majority opinion, and I’ll be direct — I think he’s a coward. This decision guts 90 years of precedent to hand Trump a power he’s already been abusing. The silver lining, if there is one, is that the next Democratic president can use this same authority to immediately clean out every Trump loyalist embedded across the federal government. But right now, in these hands, it’s dangerous.
Four decisions. A mixed bag. And three still coming tomorrow.
