Friday, June 26 — the right without remedy

0:00 The Supreme Court ruled this week that the president can strip citizenship and work authorization from thousands of people — and the courts can't stop him. That is today's real news. The rest follows from there.

0:14 Let's start with what the Court did, because it is the week's biggest story by a long way. On Wednesday, in *Mullin v.

0:23 Doe*, the Supreme Court ruled six-to-three that when the Department of Homeland Security ends Temporary Protected Status for a country — Haiti, Syria, anywhere — federal courts have no power to check whether the government broke its own rules.

0:40 The decision directly affects roughly 330,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. These are people who have lived and worked here, legally, for years.

0:51 Now the administration can turn off their work authorization and legal status without any court asking if the process was fair. That same day, in a separate case called *Monsanto v.

1:04 Durnell*, the Court ruled seven-to-two that federal pesticide law blocks state lawsuits against Bayer over Roundup. Cancer victims who say the company didn't warn them can no longer sue.

1:19 The Make America Healthy Again coalition cried betrayal — and they're right to. The Trump administration pushed an executive order to boost glyphosate production even as the Court took away the victims' last remedy.

1:34 And on the big one — birthright citizenship — the Court is still deliberating in *Trump v. Barbara*.

1:41 The question is whether the president can unilaterally end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders, overturning 127 years of precedent.

1:54 The decision hasn't come down yet, but the implications are enormous: roughly 350,000 babies born each year to families without full legal status.

2:06 Meanwhile, while the Court was reshaping the law, the president ordered airstrikes against Iran.

2:13 A container ship was hit in the Strait of Hormuz; the administration called it a violation of the ceasefire signed just nine days earlier.

2:23 But here's the thing: the strikes happened without any congressional authorization. No new war powers vote. The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. The president did it anyway.

2:38 Then there's the Education Department.

2:40 Representative Bonamici introduced an impeachment resolution against Secretary McMahon, charging that McMahon lied to Congress and illegally transferred special education programs to Health and Human Services.

2:55 Congress created the Department of Education; the administration is effectively trying to abolish it without Congress's say-so. That's a straight-up separation of powers fight.

3:07 A false child protective services report sent police to Pete Buttigieg's home in Michigan. He and his husband were separated from their young children overnight.

3:19 The report was determined to be fake — politically motivated, according to the state police officer on the scene.

3:26 This is swatting through CPS, and it exploits a gap: no federal law requires confirmation of allegations before intervention.

3:36 And the Pentagon quietly reinstated flu shot mandates for recruits, after an outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base sickened nearly 300 trainees. Defense Secretary Hegseth had made the vaccine optional in April.

3:53 Only 40 percent chose to get it. The reversal is an admission that Project 2025's anti-vaccine agenda doesn't work when the bodies start piling up.

4:05 In California, Governor Newsom called for a national billionaire tax — but he's opposing a state ballot measure that would do it now.

4:14 The measure would impose a one-time five percent tax on the state's roughly 200 billionaires, raising about 100 billion dollars over five years for healthcare and education. It qualifies for the November ballot.

4:30 Newsom says he'd rather wait for Congress. And the D.C. police settled a lawsuit with Sam O'Hara, the man handcuffed for playing Star Wars music while peacefully protesting National Guard patrols.

4:45 The city paid him an undisclosed amount.

4:48 But the case against the Ohio National Guard sergeant who ordered the arrest is still active — and the Justice Department, under Bondi, has moved to terminate consent decrees that were the main tool for police accountability.

5:03 Across the country, six Freedom Trucks — 18-wheelers with an AI-animated George Washington — are touring schools as part of a White House initiative called Freedom 250.

5:17 They promote a sanitized version of American history that omits slavery, Jim Crow, and Indigenous genocide.

5:25 At least 10 million dollars in congressional funding meant for the bipartisan America250 Commission was diverted to this project.

5:34 Finally, the administration requested 1.4 billion dollars for the Ebola response in Uganda and Kenya — but the Africa CDC says the money includes a quarantine facility in Kenya that could siphon resources from proven measures like contact tracing and treatment.

5:53 The outbreak has a 26 percent fatality rate for the Bundibugyo strain. And in Venezuela, after USAID was dismantled, the military is now leading earthquake relief.

6:06 The Pentagon can move fast, but it doesn't have the local partnerships that USAID built over decades. This week's news is not a random collection of events.

6:18 It is the implementation of a specific agenda, laid out in Project 2025, page by page. We have read and cataloged 147 of its actions so far, and 968 actions across the whole arc are now on the record and mapped.

6:36 The watch is constant. We document; we do not claim to have reversed anything. But we can see where this is going. Next week, the House will begin debate on the impeachment resolution against Secretary McMahon.

6:50 The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling in the birthright citizenship case, *Trump v. Barbara*, before the end of the term — likely within the next two weeks.

7:01 And California's billionaire tax measure heads toward the November ballot, with opponents and supporters already preparing for a costly campaign. That's the day. A court that closes doors.

7:15 A president acting without Congress. A country watching to see what holds. I'm Gus Calloway. We'll be back tomorrow.