On Monday, the Supreme Court has made many monumental decisions on June 29, 2026. First, I will outline the good news of these decisions. The court denied President Donald Trump's appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict, meaning that Trump must pay $5 million to the former columnist. Carroll accused Trump of sexually abusing her. Justices also denied Alan Dershowitz's defamation appeal against CNN. The Justices also upheld the state laws that count mail in ballots that arrive after Election Day. This is a huge win for democracy and our voting rights in general as all votes should be counted, even if they arrive after Election Day (as these votes are still cast on Election Day at the maximum). Trump is a hypocrite for viciously attacking mail in voting, but he voted by mail before. Trump wants the SAVE Ameria Act which is an authoritarian law that would limit mail in ballots and have strict new ID and proof of citizenship requirements for voting. The Supreme Court rejected President Trump's attempt to immediately fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook which increased the FED's independence. The problem is that the court expanded the President's power to fire officials (like Slaughter), overturning nearly the century old precedent of Humphrey's executive. Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a dissent said it "promises only chaos." The Trump administration believes in the fascist view of the unitary executive or the executive branch of government has supreme power over all of the two other branches of government. The truth is that the three branches of government (i.e. executive, judicial, and legislative) ought to be co-equal along with having checks and balances among each other. The executive branch has no right to do as it wants whenever it wants to the detriment of the American people. Democracy is on the ballot of November 2026, so we should vote for justice without fear.
After the good Supreme Court decision about mail in voting, we should stay vigilant in defending our voting rights. Trump wants to advance other voter restrictions and deploy ICE agents to polling places. Trump is trying to influence the midterm elections, because he is afraid of Democrats winning more House and Senate seats. We know that voter fraud is very rare in American modern elections. Trump has lied that the 2020 election was stolen, so Trump wants to consider any election where Democrats win as fraudulent which is a lie. Trump wants the SAVE Act to restrict people to register to vote if they don't have a passport or birth certificate. 20 million Americans don't have ready access to a birth certificate. Trump wants to use voter intimidation by desiring federal forces to go to polling places. Trump believes in denying election results if a Democrat won an election. Right now, Trump is a very unpopular President. We should call our elected leaders to promote voting rights protections. Armed federal agents should be banned at polling places. We should check our voter registration status. There is no question that the Republican MAGA movement thrives on fear. Many of them promote hatred and fear of immigrants, black people, women, and other minorities. While this is going on, large corporations are increasing the prices of their goods, the administration has been involved in massive corruption scandals, and we have an unjust war in Iran. Now, Thiel is praising J.D. Vance, who could run for President in 2028. Vance praising Nixon while ignoring Nixon's criminal actions of bombing Cambodia illegally and using obstruction of justice shows Vance as a slick politician who wants a reactionary agenda in American society.
The Supreme Court has shown many consequential decisions involving many important social and political issues. The Supreme Court did the right thing to say in a 6-3 decision that birthright citizenship is affirmed as a constitutional reality. Anyone born in American soil is an American citizen period. Even the three justices' failure to see that are wrong (who are Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch) but not shocking, because those three Justices are far right extremists. Therefore, we have one major victory involving that decision. Clarence Thomas believes in the myth that the Fourteenth Amendment only applies to former slaves when the Amendment is clear that it applies to all people born in America. Clarence hypocritically claims to be a textualist, but he believes that any child born to undocumented immigrants aren't true American citizens (which is false). Justice Jackson was right to say that the Constitution was never colorblind despite what Thomas says. Even Justice Kavanaugh (who voted in favor of birthright citizenship) desires Congress to limit or abolish birthright citizenship in a future date. We know that many far-right extremists and racists hate the cultural diversity of America, but our diversity is part of our strength.
The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision stuck down a campaign finance federal law that limited the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with a candidate for office. The conservative Justices like Kavanaugh claims that such regulations violate the First Amendment. That means that political parties can spend unlimited funds in direct collaboration with candidates which can cause politicians to be brought by corporate interests and special interests unfortunately. Another Supreme Court decision approves state sports ban for transgender youth. Generation Z supports the policy of allowing transpersons in girls' and women's sporting events in a majority. Almost 80 percent of all Americans oppose transgender people competing in women sports categories. The court sided with Idaho and West Virginia. Kavanaugh said that the court wasn't deciding the separate question of whether schools can allow trans people to participate on girls' and women's sports teams. He said that the question could be addressed into the future. In other words, states that allow bans can have bans, and states that don't have bans like Pennsylvania and California are not required to change their policies.
The heatwave continues in the continent of Europe. Us Americans are more used to extreme heat, because we have more air conditioners and culturally, we can adjust to it. Yet, the majority of Northern and Western Europe don't have air conditioners in many places. This is the hottest European heatwave on record being as high as 32.4 degrees Fahrenheit above their seasonal average. Millions of workers are in suffering in the heat from Paris to London, while the super-rich have air-conditioned homes, private lounges, luxury cares, planes, and offices. In this year alone in 2026, over 1,300 excess deaths have been attributed to the heat, especially among the elderly and the very young. This is heavily driven by climate change and neglect by governments. People have warned about climate change for decades (as far back as the 1960s). Globally, the climate has been very high, even daytime temperatures are so high that 79 degrees in the morning is a blessing. Thousands of schools in Europe have been closed or shortened their hours. Over 200,000 poultry were killed in France in the heat involving agriculture. The Italian river of Po has almost dried up. The system of oligarchy is not only archaic and reactionary. It is a danger to the workers and the poor, who make up the majority of the world's population. We must have democracy and true planning to save humanity and the Earth.
By Timothy
