SCOTUS Drama Over Presidential Power, Trump Pushes SAVE Act, Murdaugh Retrial Set: AM Update 6/30

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**Megyn Kelly** (0:32)
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Tuesday, June 30th, 2026 And this is your AM Update.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:39)
The president now has wide-ranging power, it seems, to fire appointees of these independent, what were supposed to be independent bodies.

**Megyn Kelly** (0:47)
Fallout from two major US. Supreme Court rulings over the president's power to fire government employees. Pundits in legacy media sound the alarm, even as the High Court draws a firm exception around Federal Reserve independence.

**Donald Trump** (1:01)
Because of the mail-in ballot ruling, which was a little bit surprising, the SAVE Act is even more important.

**Megyn Kelly** (1:08)
President Trump turning up the pressure on Republicans to pass a sweeping election integrity bill after a Supreme Court ruling leaves mail-in ballot deadlines largely in the hands of the states.
Alec Murdaugh has a retrial date after his murder convictions were overturned. And Minneapolis putting the finishing touch on Pride Month by repealing a decades-old ban on adult bathhouses popular with gay men. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.
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Major fallout from a series of Supreme Court rulings yesterday on the president's power to fire government officials in the executive branch. The justices ruling 6-3 in Trump v. Slaughter that presidents may remove officials running roughly two dozen agencies and commissions within the executive branch without first proving that the firing is for cause. The decision falling along ideological lines with liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Alaina Kagan, and Katanji Brown Jackson dissenting. The case centering on former FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. President Trump fired Slaughter last year. He fired her and another Democrat on the FTC, which enforces consumer protections and antitrust laws for ideological reasons after concluding her continued service was inconsistent with his administration's priorities. The question here was, is that legal? Slaughter reacting to the ruling yesterday on MSNOW.

**Rebecca Slaughter** (3:59)
I am very sad for America, honestly, first and foremost. I'm very worried about a future where presidents like President Trump can wield this enormous grant of executive power that the president, that the Supreme Court just handed to him in order to reward his friends and punish his enemies and do so with impunity. I think that that is incredibly sad.

**Megyn Kelly** (4:26)
The ruling drawing the expected alarm across legacy media here, CNN, CBS and MSNOW.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:32)
The president now has wide ranging power, it seems, to fire appointees of these independent, what were supposed to be independent bodies at will.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:42)
All of these boards that Congress has created as independent boards are no longer independent boards in that respect.

**SPEAKER_8** (4:48)
You know, he's won more at the Supreme Court. He's been able to effect his agenda in a much more powerful way than he was the first time around. And it's just a remarkable thing to see what a president can do after getting a second bite of the apple, becoming further radicalized in the four years that he was out of office and learning from the mistakes.