Badlands Daily: 6/30/26 - SCOTUS Slate Drops, Fake Alito Retirement, Birthright Citizenship Falls

CannCon and Zak Paine, fresh off GART in Deadwood, cover the Supreme Court's biggest decision day of the term as rulings drop live on air. The court upholds Title IX protections for biological female sports 6-3 in West Virginia v. BPJ, strikes down coordinated party spending limits in NRSC v. FEC, and expands presidential firing power over independent agencies by overturning 91 years of precedent. The birthright citizenship case goes against Trump's executive order, prompting an unusually measured public response from him as he quietly drops the sports and surgery provisions from his Save America Act messaging, a shift CannCon flags as deliberate sequencing rather than retreat. Then chaos breaks out live on the show: NPR and Politico both report Justice Alito is retiring, CannCon nearly posts about it, and within minutes the story is yanked as published in error. CannCon and Zak immediately clock it as a canary trap tied to the still-unsolved Dobbs v. Jackson leak investigation, betting someone on Alito's staff just got caught. The Chatrie geofence warrant ruling brings an unusual moment of agreement with the court's liberal wing on Fourth Amendment privacy grounds, and Colorado's court rejects a redistricting ballot push that would have flipped the state to 7-1.