The Daily Herold: 6/30/26 - SCOTUS Triple Play, Justice Disclosures & Bolton's Hypocrisy

Jon Herold comes back from GART fired up about a Supreme Court that had a very busy few days. Birthright citizenship survives, Trump's executive order gets struck down, and Justice Thomas writes a 90-page dissent Jon agrees with completely. The Slaughter case overturns a 91-year-old precedent and hands Trump significantly more power to remove executive branch officials, which Trump is rightly celebrating. But the ruling Jon thinks actually matters most barely got covered: the Watson decision allows states to count mail-in ballots that arrive after election day as long as they were postmarked in time. Jon walks through why fixing elections is still the single most important issue in the country, because nearly everything else, including birthright citizenship, becomes solvable once the people in office are actually accountable to voters. He also digs into Supreme Court justice financial disclosures, including Sonia Sotomayor receiving thousands in concert tickets and theater reimbursements, and asks the harder question about where legitimate outside income ends and judicial corruption begins. John Bolton pleading guilty to mishandling classified documents gets a well-earned eye roll given his own public criticism of Trump on the same issue. Jon also commits, somewhat reluctantly, to cursing less after hearing the same complaint from multiple people at GART.